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Beware of despairing about yourself.

-St. Augustine.

The exaltation of talent, as it is called, above virtue and religion, is the curse of the age. -Channing.

Live pure, speak truth, right wrong,

Else wherefore born?

-Tennyson.

No wind serves him who has no destined port.

-Montaigne.

Who is dumb? He who does not know how to say kind things at the proper time.

-Hindu.

"If you would have a happy family life, remember two things,-in matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

If you were born to honor, show it now:
If put upon you, make the judgment good
That thought you worthy of it.

-Shakespeare.

As in the silence of night the ear catches the least sound, so in the solitude of reflection the mind detects soft and delicate strains of thought, unheard in the bustle of the crowd. -Prentice Mulford.

Our high respect for a well read man is praise enough for literature.

-Emerson.

Let nothing disturb thee;

Nothing affright thee;

All things are passing;

God never changeth.

(Santa Teresa's Book-Mark.)

-Longfellow.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

-Hamerton.

“They that on glorious ancestry enlarge Produce their debt instead of their discharge."

EACH AND ALL.

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill-top looking down;

The heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, Deems not that great Napoleon

Stops his horse, and lists with delight,

Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument

Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.

All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.

-Emerson.

Home is everywhere to thee,

Who canst thine own dwelling be.

-Joseph Beaumont.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

-Emerson.

Our to-days make our to-morrows, and our present lives determine the grade on which we must enter any next life. -Minot J. Savage.

What man is there whom contact with a great soul will not exalt? A drop of water upon the petal of a lotus glistens with the splendors of the pearl.

-Hindu.

Of nothing can we be more sure than this: that, if we cannot sanctify our present lot, we could sanctify no other.

-Martineau.

"To see the spider sit and spin
Shut with her web of silver in,
You'd never, never, never guess
The way she gets her dinner."

Some days must needs be full of gloom,
Yet must we use them as we may;
Talk less about the years to come,
Give love, and labor more, to-day.

What our hand findeth, do with might;
Ask less for help, but stand or fall,
Each one of us in life's great fight,
As if himself and God were all.

-Alice Cary.

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