Children have more need of models than of critics.

--Joubert.

That which is not for the interest of the whole swarm is not for the interest of a single bee.

-Marcus Aurelius.

After every storm the sun will smile, for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

At last to be identified!

-William R. Alger.

At last, the lamps upon thy side,
The rest of life to see!

Past midnight, past the morning star!
Past sunrise! Ah! what leagues there are

Between our feet and day!

-Emily Dickinson.

You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults; still less of others' faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

-Ruskin.

Why make we moan

For loss that doth-enrich us yet

With upward yearnings of regret.

-Lowell.

Oh world, as God has made it! All is beauty:
And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.
-Browning.

Age is opportunity no less

Than youth itself, though in another dress;
And, as the evening twilight fades away,
The stars are seen by night, invisible by day.
-Longfellow.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

-Thoreau.

Belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing,-characterizes all valuable minds.

-Emerson.

Heed how thou livest. Do no act by day
Which from the night shall drive thy peace away.
In months of sun so live that months of rain

Shall still be happy.

(Translation.)

-Whittier.

AT CHRYSTEMASSE TYDE.

"Two sorrie Thynges there be—

Ay, three;

A Neste from which ye Fledglings have been taken, A Lambe forsaken,

A redde leaf from ye Wilde Rose rudely shaken.

"Of gladde Thynges there be more—
Ay, four;

A Larke above ye olde Neste blythely singing,
A Wilde Rose clinging

In safety to a Rock: a Shepherde bringing
A Lambe, found, in his armes, and Chrystemasse
Bells a-ringing."

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I know there are voices I do not hear,

And colors I do not see;

I know that the world has numberless doors

Of which I have not the key.

-Minot J. Savage.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

-Shakespeare.

What had the life of Jesus been to us, if we had only the records of his sermons, without the record of his going about doing good. -Bishop Simpson.

When I say that it was March, I need add nothing about the weather. -Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

"Medicine for the soul."

-Emerson.

-Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

-Thoreau.

"He who is always inquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him."

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

-Blanco White.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. -Phillips Brooks.

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another's.

-Richter.

The nimble lie

Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
We see it fly, while the hour-hand of truth
Seems to stand still; and yet it moves unseen,
And wins at last, for the clock will not strike
Till it has reached the goal.

-Longfellow.