HERE is such fulness in the Bible that often THER times it says much by saying nothing; and not only its expressions but its silences are teaching, like the dial in which the shadow as well as the light informs us. Boyle, 1691. A PASSIONATE reproof is like a medicine given scalding hot, the patient cannot take it. THE spirit of contradiction is like a paper kite, it only keeps up whilst you pull against it. TALL people are frequently like high houses, where the top story is often the worst furnished. RICHES are the baggage of virtue which often times hindereth the march. 25252525252525252525 2525252525252525 252525252 SPARE minutes are the most fruitful for good or evil, for they are as gaps through which temptation finds easiest access to the garden. THE real fruits of faith must grow above the graft. HERE is a firefly in the southern clime, THE Which shineth only when upon the wing; So it is with the mind, When once we rest we darken. ABSENCE is to love what fasting is to the body, a little stimulates it, but a long absence is fatal. OH, walk with God, and thou shalt find How He can charm the way, And lead thee with a quiet mind Into His perfect day. His love shall cheer thee like the dew That bathes the drooping flower; 2525252 25252 12.525252525252 2525 MEMORY is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council-chamber of thought. Basil. MEMORY, like books which remain a long time shut up in the dust, needs to be opened from time to time; it is necessary, so to speak, to open its leaves, that it may be ready in time of need. Seneca. IGNORANCE is the curse of God, I Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. FIND that successful exertion is a powerful means of exhilaration, which discharges itself in good humour upon others. Chalmers. MEMORY is the treasure-house of the mind, reserved. wherein the monuments thereof are kept and 2525252 Fuller. 5252525 A SCENT, a note of music, a voice long un heard, the stirring of the summer, may startle us with the sudden revival of long-forgotten feelings Justice Talfourd. and thoughts. WORDS of kindness we have spoken May, when we have passed away, Heal, perhaps, a spirit broken, Guide a brother led astray. Hagen. THAT `HAT life is long which answers life's great end; the tree that bears no fruit deserves no name. should we live, that every hour Young. May die, as dies the natural flower, A self-reviving thing of power; That every thought and every deed Far better than a barren joy. R. M. Milnes. 25252 HE lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost. Besides, God is better than his promise if he takes from him a long lease, and gives him a freehold of a better nature. AL Fuller. LWAYS say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting thereby his many troubles. Arthur Helps. SPEAK gently! 'tis a little thing, Dropped in the heart's deep well; The good, the joy, that it may bring, Bates. IF F a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. 25252525252525 1252525252525252 Franklin. 1252525 |