XXIV. FLYING EMBERS. How many will say "forgive," and find To hate a little longer! FORGIVENESS to the injured does belong; Tennyson. But they never pardon who have done the wrong. Dryden. To pardon an old injury is to provoke a new one. Auguste Préault. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Proverb. And BE assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. Lavater. A LYING tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it. Solomon. FRIENDSHIP which flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring does not congeal in Winter. Fenimore Cooper. A MAN ought to keep his friendships in constant repair. 1 look upon a day as lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Dr. Samuel Johnson. WHAT makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones, or the pleasures of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us. La Rochefoucauld. HEAVEN knows what would become of our society, if we never visited people we speak ill of; we should all live, like Egyptian hermits, in crowded solitude. George Eliot. CHILDREN always turn to the light; O, that grown-up men would do likewise ! Julius Hare. THE great man down, you mark his favorite flies; The poor advanced makes friends of enemies, Shakespeare. "Look on your best friends with the thought that they may one day become your worst enemies," was an ancient maxim of worldly prudence. It is for us to reverse this maxim, and rather say: "Look on your worst enemies with the thought that they may one day become your best friends." Dean Stanley. NOTHING SO Soon mortifies as to spend one's scorn in vain. John Foster. UNPOPULARITY or popularity is utterly worthless as a test of manhood's worth. F. W. Robertson. RASHLY, nor ofttimes truly, doth man pass judgment on his brother. Tupper. He seemed to be a soul that by accident had met with a body and tried to make the best of it. He was the soul of goodness, Joubert. And all our praises of him are like streams Shakespeare. How often have I lamented that his powers should have wanted the influence of an unsullied reputation! Dumont, on Mirabeau. No one is a more dangerous enemy to all that is sweet and good in human life, than the one who lends to impurity the sanction of splendid talents. Wendell Phillips. TIE down a hero, and he feels the puncture of a pin; throw him into battle, and he is almost insensible to pain. John C. Calhoun. STRENGTH of character is not mere strength of feeling; it is the resolute restraint of strong feeling. It is unyield. ing resistance to whatever would disconcert us from without or unsettle us from within. Dickens EACH is bound to all. Herbert Spencer. THE public are served not by what the lord mayor feels, who rides in his coach, but by what the apprentice boy feels, who looks at him. Colton POWER comes from persistent and repeated effort. When you can do something better than anybody else, you are acquiring power; and if you can do this easily and pleasantly, that is your calling. THE apple falls near the tree. Hon. D. P. Baldwin. Spanish Proverb. SOULS agree but minds discuss. Auguste Préault. In the subtle alchemy of hope the slightest possibilities are ever transmuted into golden probabilities and inevitable certainties. Round Table. Do something worth living for, worth dying for; do something to show that you have a mind, and a heart, and a soul within you. Dean Stanley. DICKENS set out on the literary theory that in life everything is better than it looks; Thackeray with the impression that everything was worse. Justin McCarthy. WE must love the Lord, if we would learn to serve him and win others to him. Wm. Ormiston, D.D. ONE hand ought to wash the other. Latin Proverb. THE best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a Sufferer; Deckar. To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of neal, and of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best precepts ɔf long-lasting. Bacon. IF we are God's children, we need not fear the developments of his providence. Richard Newton, D.D. MAKE but few explanations; the character that cannot defend itself is not worth vindicating. F. W. Robertson. THERE is no funeral so sad to follow as the funeral of our own youth, which we have been pampering with fond desires and ambitious hopes, and all the bright berries that hang in poisonous clusters over the path of life. I CANNOT despair of the ultimate conversion of the heathen, when I remember the power of the Gospel upon myJohn Newton, D.D. self. It is well known that he seldom lives frugally who lives by chance. Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of reveling to-day on the profits of the morrow. Samuel Johnson. ANNUAL income £20, annual expenditure £19 19s. 6d.; result happiness; annual income £20, annual expenditure £20 Os. 6d.; result misery. HAL! I am heinously unprovided to-day, I do suspect you grievously; infinitely. Micawber. and you promise me so Falstaff. |