IT T is with narrow-minded people as with narrownecked bottles, the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. WE should not despise the malice of the weakest. We should remember that venom supplies the want of strength, and that a lion may perish by the puncture of an asp. REFLECTED in the lake, I love To mark the star of evening glow; So tranquil in the heaven above, Thus heavenly hope is all serene, Townsend. RATHER do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle-that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits may easily be shot. Whilst on the wing they escape the fowler. Quarles. 25257 1525252525 то be as good as our fathers we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When someone sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. Wendell Phillips. WHAT is our life? It is but as a vapour that vanisheth away. 25252525252525 L IFE may aptly be compared to a railway train, with first, second, and third class carriages. The objects seen in the journey, and the rate of speed are the same to all, the only difference being that the compartments differ a little in comfort from one another. 525252 FALSE opinions creep like mildew over the mind. Archbishop of York. The Association Sermon, preached at Sheffield, 1879. 252525 2525252525252525252525 152525 ILL habits gather by unseen degrees, IN As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. the vicious ways of the world it mercifully falleth out that we become not extempore wicked, but it taketh some time and pains to undo ourselves. We fall not from virtue, like Vulcan, in a day. Bad dispositions require some time to grow into bad habits, and bad habits must undermine good, and often-repeated acts make us habitually evil. Sir Thomas Browne. THE HE sunshine of life is made up of very little Aiken. WISDOM is the olive that springeth from the heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth fruit in the actions. Grynestone. 52525252525 HONOUR is but the reflection of a man's own actions, shining bright in the face of all about him, and thence rebounding on himself. South. HOPE is the last thing that dies in man, and, though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that, while we are travelling through life, it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. Rochefoucault. THE HERE is some virtue in almost every vice but hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it. Hazlitt. L IFE is like an enchanted circle- there seems always to be as much before us as we have already passed; though we are necessarily conscious that we leave every hour more behind us. 25252525252525252525252 THE floating weeds and birds that meet The wanderer's bark at sea, And tell that fresh and new and sweet, Are like the hints of that high clime, Towards which we steer o'er waves of time. THE HE excesses of our youth are like drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. NATURE is the system of laws by which the Almighty governs the universe. THOUGHT is the soul's chariot. THE HE Mogul Sultan Acbar bore this inscription upon one of his seals (in allusion to truth and sincerity): "I never knew a man lost on a straight road." 2525252525252525252525252525252 252525 |