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He roost hves Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.— BaUei/. 2. I would not waste my spring of youth In idle dalliance ; I would plant rich seeds To blossom in ray manhood, and bear fruit When I am old — J. A. HiWume. Rest not I Life is sweeping by; Go and dare before you die ; Something mighty and sublime Leave behind to conquer time. Glorious 'lis to live for aye, When these forms have passed away.— fl^beftA Work! and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Workl thou shalt ride over care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath woe's weeping waiow, Work with a stout heart and resolute wiUl Work for some good, be it ever so slowly; Work for some hope, be it ever so lowly ; Workl for all labor is noble and holy \— Mrs. Osgood. r li Press on! surmount the rocky steeps; Climb boldly o'er the torrent's arch; He fails alone who feebly creeps, He wins who dares the hero's march. ;;•?;. '4^iJVJv:W<»:«K»--— ^i'lS*'^*'*"^-^'" MBMOET PKACTIGB. Be thou a hero I let thy might Tramp on eternal ttnows its wajr ; And through the ebon walla of night, Hew down a paaisage unto day. — Park Bet^amin. 6. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of lire, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ; Be a hero in the strife I Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ; Let the dead Past bury its dead: Act — act in the living Present, Heart withiu, and Qod o'erheadl Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Foot-prints on the sands of time ;— Foot-prints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; ^N Still achievmg, still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait — Lonqf^lov). Advbbsitt. 7. The good are better made by ill, As odors crushed are sweeter stilL — Bogen. 8. Affliction is the good man's shining scene: Prosperity conceals his brightest ray: As night to stars, woe luster gives to man.— Fowv. 9. For God has marked each sorrowing day, And numbered every secret tear. And heaven's long years of bliss shall pay For all his children suffer here.— W. C. Bryanl k< MEMORY PRACTIOS. 10. ne: B3x.—7omg. pay a Bryemi. " r And that high suffering, which wo dread, A hiffher joy dlwloaeB ; Men saw the thorns on Jesiis' brow. But angels saw the rosea.— ifr». J- W. Howt. 11. • "Wo see but dimly through the mist and Tapors ; Amid these eartlily damps What seem to us but sad funereal Upon, May be heaven's distent lamps.— Long/iBow. The rose which in the sun's bright rnys Might soon have drooped and perished, With grateful scent the sliower repays By which its life is cherished : f And thus have e'en the young in years Found flowers within that flourish, And yield a fragrance fed by tears. That sunshine could not nourish.— .Benuird Barton. Bbnkvolbncb. 13. What we keep we may lose, but what we give t» Christ we are sure to keep.— r. L. Ouykr. 14. Men resemble the gods in nothag so much as In doing good to their fel- low-creatures. — Okero. 15. Words of kindness we have spoken May, when we have pas" ' 'way, Heal, perhaps, a spirit br< . • Guide a brother led astra.i -J. Eagm. 16. Speak gently I 'tis a little thing, Dropped in the heart's deep well; The good, the joy, that it may bring, Eternity shall tell.— i). BaUa. MEMORY PRACTIVB. Who is thy neighbor? He wliom thou Hast power to aid or bloM ; Whose acliiuff lioad or burning brow Thy soothing hand may press. Thy neighbor is the fainting poor, , Whose eye with want ia diin; 0, enter then his humble door With aid and peace for him. Thy neighbor? Pass no mourner bf; Perhaps tliou canst redeem A breaking heart Trom misery ;— Qo share thy lot with him. Thb Biblk. 18. We count the Scriptures of Ood to be the most sublime philoiophy. I find more marks of authenticity iu the Bible than in any profane history whatever. — /. Newton. 19. The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected (Vom all other books in whatever age or language they have been written.— iSKr WiUiam Jones. 20. Thou truest friend man ever knew, Thy constancy I've tried ; When all were fnlse, I found thee true, My counselor and guide. The mines of earth no treasures give That could this volume buy; In teaching me the way to live, It taught me how to die.— Glaorje P. Morris. 21. Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries ; Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace ne philoaophy. I ij profane history beauty, more pure try and eloquence > or language they VofTtSt To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift tlie latch, to force the way ; And better had they ne'er beeu bom, That read to doubt, or read to aoom.— Vattw SeetL Cheerfulness. 22. Better to weave in the web of lifb A bright and golden Ailing, And to do God's will with a ready heart, And handa that are swift and willing. Than to snap the delicate, alender threads . Of our curioua lives asunder. And then blame God for the tangled ends, And sit, and grieve, and wonder.— Jfr». M. A. Kidder. Contentment. 33. He is the richest who is content with the least— Socrole*. 24. If Ufe bo long, I will be glad, That I may long obey ; If short, yet why should I be sad To soar to endless day T — R. Boak/r. 26. Every bush and tufted tree Warbles sweet philosophy : " Mortal, fly from doubt and sorrow — Ood provideth for the morrow I "—A BAw. 36. Much will always wanting be To him who much desires. Thrice happy he To whom the wise indulgency of Heaven, With sp?iiing hand, but just enough, haa given. — A. Cmoky. I I ^aiS^ mmtdM i*' ^ I »mm MKMORr PRAOTICE. \ 97. Mj orown ia in my heart, uot on my head ; Not ilsoked with diamond* and Indian atonei, Nor lo bo Roen ; my crown la called content ; A orown it ia that aeldom kinga tiw^oj.—Shakuptan, 38. To be reaignod whon ilia betide, Patient when favora are dooiod, And pleaaod with favori given ; Moat aurely thia ia wiadom'a part, Thia ia that incenae of the heart Whose fragraooe breathea to heaTen.— CbMon. 39. But even when J hate, If I aeek my garden giito, And Burvey the world around me and above^ Tlie hatred fiiea my mind, And I aigh for hiimnn kind. And excuse the faiilta of tlioHe I cannot lora. I've parted with my pride, And I take the auniiy aide. For I've found it worae than folly to be aad ; I keep my conacionce clear, I've a hundred pounds a year, And I manage to eziat and be glad.— (7AarIes Mackay. Duty. 30. No man ia bom into the world wboae work la not born with him ; there ia always work, And tools to work witlial, for thoae who will ; And bleased are the homy hands of toil.— J. B. LowA 81. One \y one the sands are flowing. One by one the moments fall ; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all. tammm DM, nt; fkakuptan. OoUon. ve, ire. rlesMackay. k rk. nriU; J.B.Lowa. One by one thy diiilei w»it theo, Let thy whole •trongth go to etch ; Let no future dreams elate thee— Learn thou flrat what theee can teach. —AdtlaUk A. Pnektr. It may not be our lot to wield The aiokle In the ripened field; Nor oure to hoar on ennimer evea The reaper's nong among the ihearea; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with Ood'a great thought, The near and future blend In one, And whatae'er It willed la done.— vrWm above, To bless a heart of earthly mold ; The warmest love that can grow cold^ This is a mother's love. — Montgomery. HuHAinTT. 64. The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporeal suffering feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. — Shakespeare. i % \i " ■lHWi'illM'Tlf'i 13 \ > 1 J ■ MEMORY PRACTICE. 65. I would not enter on mjr list of friends * (Though graced with poIiHhed manners and floe sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.— CbugMr. NoBLK Lives. 66. Still shines the light of holy lives Like star-beams over doubt ; Each sainted memory, Christ-like, drives Some dark possession out. — WhUtitr. 67. As on thy mother's knee, a new-bom child, Weeping thou sat'st, whilst all around thee smiled; So live, that, sinking into death's long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, whilst all around thee weep.— iT^Ai. 58. Whene'er a noble deed is wrought. Whene'er is spoken h noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. — LongfiUim, 69. Rouse to some work of high and holy love. And thou au augel's happiness shall know- Shall bless the earth while in the world above; The good begun by thee shall onward flow, In many a branching stream, and wider grow; The seed that in these few and fleeting hours Thy hand, unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruit divine in heaven's immortal bowers.— MfeosE. 60. So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves IL. ■ ■ - - .a^^-«ft ente^ Bp.—Sq/k. iwers.— Mtoo. To the pale realms of ahode, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon ; but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery or his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. — Fi-om " TTianatopais," by W^Ham Cullen Bryant 61. Chisel in band stood a sculptor boy With his marble block before hira. And his face lit up with a smile of joy As an angel dream passed o'er him. He carved that dream on tlie yielding stone With many a sharp incision. In heaven's own light the sculptor shone^ He had caught that angel vision. Sculptors of life are we ; as we stand With our lives uncarved before us. Waiting the hour when at God's right hand Our life-dream passes o'er us. Let us carve it, then, on the yielding stone With many a deep incision, Its heavenly beauties shall be our own — Our lives that angel vision. — W. 0. Doom, 62. I live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For the cause that lacks assistance. For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can Ao.—DtMin OhivenUy Magwdne. Mbditation. 63. At evening, to myself I say: Where hast thou been and gleaned to^lay— Thy labors how bestowed? I,f 14 MEMORY PRACTICE. '■ ; .: i;: 1^/ What hast thou rightly said or done ? What grace attained, and Icnowlodge won, In following after Ood?— (7Aar{«« Weaky. 64. Tlie day in drawing to its dose. And what good deeds, since first it rose, Have I presented. Lord, to thee? What wrongs repressed, what rights maintained; What struggles past, what victories gained ; What good attempted and attained. As offerings of my ministry?— Xond/'eOow. Mkbcy. 65. There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea; There's a kindness in his justice Which is more than liberty. For the love of Qod is broader Than the measure of man's mind ; And the heart of the fCtemal Is most wonderfully kind. — F. W. Fdber, 66. The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath; it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The thronid monarch better than his crown: It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth them show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Think of this. That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mBK,j.—Shakapear». Patbiotisk. 6?. Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, " This is my own, my native land I " i fififijia Ml; '8, ier Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathes, go mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High tliough hia titles, proud his name. Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power, and polf. The wretch, concentered all in self. Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung. Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.— Sir Waiter SeoU. Perseverance. 68. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the mglit—LongfeUou. 69. life should be full of earnest work. Our hearts undashed by fortune's frown; Let Perseverance conquer fate. And Merit seize the victor's crown ; The battle is not to the strong, The race not always to the fleet. And he who seeks to pluck the stars. Will lose the jewels at his feet.— P. Gary. Prater. 70. He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast; He p'ayeth best who loveth beat All things, both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us. He made and loveth M.— Coleridge. Procrastination, 71. Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the &tal precedent will plead, Thus on, till wiidom is pushed out of life I Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the raercies of a moment leaves The vast oonoerna of an eternal soene. — Toimg. Thk Soul. 72. The sun is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky; The soul, immortal as its sire, Shall never die. — Montgomery, IB- Why should this worthless tegument endure, If its undying guest be lost forever? 01 let us keep the soul embalmed and pure In living virtue, that when both must sever, Although corruption may our frame consume, The immortal spirit in the skies may bloom. 74. The soul, secure in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, tlie sun himself Orow dim with age, and nature sink in years; But thou Shalt flourish in immortal youth. Unhurt amidst the war of elements. The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. — Additoti. I kn< poisonii PSOFANB SWBABIKO. 76. The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice 80 mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. — Oeorge Wellington. 76. The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the probne swearer, whom he catches without any reward. — Horace Memo. mg. r, i. — Additon. irearing is a vice Bter detests and ipidity, or their catches without sm:imwi'' Truth. 77. I know nut any crime so great that a luitn could contrive to commit as pomoning tlio BOiircon of eternal trath.—Johiisoit. '>• Truth crimhed to earth shall ri.te again ; Tlie eternal years ol God are I lerti; , But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among liia worshipers. — Bryant. ViRTUB. 79. True worth is in being, not seeming — In doing each day that goes by Some little good, not in dreaming Of groat things to do by and by ; For, wliatever men any in their blindness, And spite of the luncies of youth, There is nothing so kingly as kindness, I And nothing so royal as trutli. — Alice Gary. 80. From yon blue heavens above us bent, The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith, than Norman blood — TfeHn^son. 81. ; I count this thing to be grandly true, • That a noble deed is a step toward (iod. Lifting the soul from the common sod To purer air and a broader view. We rise by things that are 'nciith our feet; By what we have mastered of good and (tain; ^ By the pride deposed and the passion slain, \ And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet.— Jl G. 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