77.

Enough if in our hearts we know
There's such a place as Yarrow.

Wordsworth.

78. The early white settlers of Kentucky soon became more than a match for the Indians in everything wherein the Indian excelled. J. F. Clarke.

79. An honorable defeat is better than a mean victory, and no one is really the worse for being beaten, unless he loses heart. Lubbock.

80. God's influence on the heart was like the flowing wind -free, felt, and yet mysterious. - Geikie.

81. Ha, it was only last week I had a new nozzle put on that umbrella. - Jerrold.

82. We doubt whether there is in English literature a more triumphant book than Boswell's. - Birrell.

83. They would not eat except from off one plate. — Old Deccan Days.

84. Science has nothing to do with Christ, except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious in admitting evidence. - Darwin.

85. Think of being moved religiously by looking at a pinnacle or bluff from thousand feet high, and then think what the earth contains which might move us. — King.

86. It was Bagheera, the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. — Kipling.

87. It is not desirable to go out of one's way to be original; but it is to be hoped that it may lie in one's way. - Higginson.

88. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever. - Macaulay.

89. I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions than they would have been if the Queen had sent for them to live at court; nor has the Church's most ardent "desire to depart and be with Christ' ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure. — Ruskin.

90. Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust,

Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous - Lowell.

to be just.

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91. The very word education is a standing protest against

dogmatic teaching.-C. W. Eliot.

92. He is as noiseless in a room as any of us women; and, more than that, with all his look of unmistakable mental firmness and power, he is as nervously sensitive as the weakest of Collins.

us.

93. In a word, as Alphonse Karr puts it, the more we change, the more we remain the same. Besant.

94. Marshy ground covered their right; on the left, the most exposed part of the position, the hus-carles or body-guard of Harold, men in full armor and wielding huge axes, were grouped round the Golden Dragon of Wessex and the Standard of the King.-J. R. Green.

95. I was startled at hearing her address by the familiar name of Benjamin the young physician I have referred to, until I found on enquiry, what I might have guessed by the size of his slices of pie and other little marks of favoritism, that he was her son. - Holmes.

96. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden of to-day, that the weight is more than a man can bear.—MacDonald.

97. He grieved to give up his dog and gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. — Irving.

98. To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Stevenson.

99. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,

Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from error,

There were no need of arsenals and forts.- Longfellow. 100. Modern imaginative literature has become so self-con

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scious, and therefore so melancholy, that Art, which should be 'the world's sweet inn," whither we repair for refreshment and repose, has become rather a watering place, where one's own private touch of the liver-complaint is exasperated by the affluence of other sufferers whose talk is a narrative of morbid symptoms. - Lowell.

IOI. The farmer was twisting a halter to do what he threatened, when the fox, whose tongue had helped him in hard pinches before, thought there could be no harm in trying whether it might not do him one more good turn. - Froude.

102. If the youth decides to consume all his time and strength in making his arms big and his legs brawny, he ends his career a physical giant, indeed, but also an intellectual pigmy.— Hillis.

103. Experienced soldiers tell us that at first men are sickened by the smell and newness of blood, almost to death and fainting; but that as soon as they harden their hearts and stiffen their minds, as soon as they will bear it, then comes an appetite for slaughter. Bagehot.

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104. Take away from us what the Greeks have given; and I hardly can imagine how low the modern European would stand. - Ruskin.

105. And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine,

As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine,
Which (the burgesses voted by common consent)
Was no more than his due who brought good news from
-Browning.

Ghent.

106. Though the French sailed out again, romance remained behind to dwell forever in Port Royal's placid basin. - Bolles. 107. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide. Emerson.

108. Now to Baloo's word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man's cub according to the Law. — Kipling.

109. I believe it is by persons believing themselves in the

right that nine-tenths of the tyranny of this world has been perpetrated. Thackeray.

110. It is a just and a feeling remark of Dr. Johnson's that we never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart. - De Quincey.

III. I do not believe it is possible to describe or paint the difference between savage and civilized man. - Darwin.

112. It's no matter what you say when you talk to yourself, but when you talk to other people, your business is to use words with reference to the way in which those other people are like to understand them. - Holmes.

113. Mammon is not a god at all; but a devil, and even a very despicable devil. - Carlyle.

114. The ship-builder who built the pinnace of Columbus has as much claim to the discovery of America as he who suggests a thought by which some other man opens new worlds to us has to a share in that achievement by him unconceived and inconceivable. - Lowell.

115.

Where, twisted round the barren oak,

The summer vine in beauty clung,
And summer winds the stillness broke,
The crystal icicle is hung.

-Longfellow.

116. Whilst Johnson was preeminently a reasonable man, reasonable in all his demands and expectations, Carlyle was the most unreasonable mortal that ever exhausted the patience of nurse, mother, or wife. Birrell.

117. That house was built on purpose to show in what an exceeding small compass comfort may be packed. — Mitford. 118. But the life which is to endure grows slowly; and as the soil must be prepared before the wheat can be sown, so before the kingdom of heaven could throw up its shoots there was needed a kingdom of this world where the nations were neither torn in pieces by violence, nor were rushing after false ideals and spurious ambitions. - Fronde.

119. Words afford a more delicious music than the chords of any instrument; they are susceptible of richer colors than any

painter's palette; and that they should be used merely for the transportation of intelligence, as a wheelbarrow carries brick, is not enough. - Higginson.

120. It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window. - Lubbock. 121. Sleep and dreams exist on this condition that no one wake the dreamer. - Schreiner.

122. It is only when you stick it in the silver candlestick and introduce it into the drawing-room, that a tallow-dip seems plebeian, dim, and ineffectual. - George Eliot.

123. The crow boasts from the moment his loud voice first comes back to his ears from the echoing hillside, he steals from the time he sees the corn blades start from the furrow. — Bolles.

124. A man who has learned to do anything well enjoys doing it. This is the lure which wise Nature uses to lead us to finish our work. J. F. Clarke.

125. A great Bostonian, whom I remember to have heard speculate on the superiority of a state of civilization in which you could buy two cents' worth of beef to one in which so small a quantity was unpurchasable, would find the system perfected in Venice, where you can buy half a cent's worth. - Howells.

126. At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape. — Irving.

127. It is easy to sugar to be sweet and to nitre to be salt. — Emerson.

128. Even Baloo, half smothered under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace, could not help chuckling as he heard the big Black Panther asking for help. — Kipling.

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129. Even Shakespeare, who seems to come in after everybody has done his best with a Let me take hold a minute and show you how to do it," could not have bettered this (a line of Chaucer's). - Lowell.