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Browning.
Mary H. Thorp. The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast, That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.
Chaney.
Mrs. James Howland.
A man can receive nothing except it be given him from Heaven.
John 3:27.
Frances D. Hurlbutt.
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds-all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale.
May A. Cloud.
Always remember that kind words and a smile cost nothing, and are priceless treasures to the discouraged.
J. Q. B.
Eleanor Millard Padgett.
'Tis with our judgments as our watches ; none go just alike, yet each believes his own. Pope.
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Mrs. Anna N. Lillie. Honor and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honor lies. Pope.
Isabel P. Brewer.
The secret of life is not to do what one likes, but to try to like what one has to do. Miss Mulock.
Mrs. Henry Thorp.
When Death, the great reconciler, has come, it is not our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot.
Charles A. Freer.
If what shone afar so grand Turns to nothing in thy hand, On again ; the virtue lies In the struggle, not the prize.
Milner.
Martha J. Rodmond. "In all thy ways acknowlege Him, and He shall direct thy paths."
Dr. R. Emmett Miller.
I'm growing fonder of my staff ; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes ; I'm growing fainter in my laugh ; I'm growing deeper in my sighs ; I'm growing careless of my dress ; I'm growing frugal of my gold ; . I'm growing wise ; I'm growing-yes- I'm growing old !
Saxe.
C. H. Bryant.
There is that scattereth and yet in- creaseth ; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. Proverbs 11:24.
Dr. Arthur L. Root.
" Half of the ills we mortals know From doctors and imagination grow."
J. C. Donaldson.
"Contentment with godliness is great gain."
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Carrie Millard Hewitt.
To know thy bent, and then pursue, Why, that is genius, nothing less ; But he who knows what not to do, Holds half the secret of success. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Bessie Stoddard Decker.
" All things are equal, to the heart that bears A faith unblanching through earth's thou- sand snares."
H. K. White.
Since we love to live Let us live to love.
Dow. Addie E. Ferry.
To me the meanest flower that blows, can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. William Wordsworth.
Mrs. Ferdinand Shaw.
I long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles I long ; But God hath led my dear ones on And He can do no wrong.
Whittier.
Julia Wood Bushnell
Pleasure like quicksilver, is bright and coy : We strain to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still ; If seized at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it but rank poison in your veins ! Young.
George P. Denny.
In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained : knowest thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee,
"I find thee worthy ; do this deed for me." Lowell,
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Mary Estelle Sumner.
God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for anything he wants us to do. Ruskin.
J. E. Tobey.
"Kindness is stored away in the heart, like rose leaves in a drawer to sweeten every object around them."
Mrs. Winans.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of every day life.
Auerbach.
Kuno Francke.
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply :---
"'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die." Emerson.
Frances Ecob.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire-conscience. George Washington.
Achsa Halbert Beebe.
And friends, dear friends-when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep, Let one most loving of you all, Say : "Not a tear must o'er her fall, He giveth His beloved sleep."
Mrs Browning.
B. C. Van Ingen.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of soli- tude.
Emerson.
Mrs. N. Kellogg.
Yet 'tis a weary task to school the heart,
Ere years of griefs have tamed its fiery spirit Into that still and passive fortitude Which is but learned from suffering.
Hemans.
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Mrs. Jennie C. Bryant.
Heaven helps those who help themselves. Anon.
Henry L. Gilbert.
A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object between them and the sun, and whoso journeys to- ward the sun journeys toward that per- son. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level. Thus men of character are the con- science of the society to which they belong. Emerson.
Mrs. Eliza Hakes Rowe.
Not what God gives but what He takes, Uplifts us to the holiest height, On truth's rough crags life's current breaks
To diamond light. Alice Cary.
Dr. F. N. Winans.
If by your art you cannot please all, content the few. To please the multitude is bad. Schiller.
W. Everett Barnes.
Thought passes into action. The thought becomes the word, the word the deed, the deed the habit, the habit the character, the character the eternal being of our souls.
Canon Farrar.
Mrs. Marcia M. Livingston. Elizabeth Denny.
The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn ; Morning's at seven ; The hill-side's dew-pearled ;
The lark's on the wing ;
The snail's on the thorn ; God's in his Heaven- All's right with the world.
Robert Browning
Erasmus L. Donaldson.
If ignorance is bliss, 'twere folly to be wise.
Shakespeare.
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Harriette C. Hurd. "I cannot feel That all is well when darkening clouds conceal The shining sun ; But then I know God lives and loves-can say, since it is so, Thy will be done."
John H. Freer.
What is really best for us lies always within our reach, though often overlooked. Longfellow.
Leia Turnure.
The greatest truths are the simplest, so are the greatest men.
Shakespeare. Mrs. Emily Kilbourne Cope.
"Where Christ brings His cross, He brings His presence, and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for des- pair. At the darkest you have felt a hand through the dark, closer perhaps and tenderer than any touch dreamed of at noon."
Charles Gadsby.
Do not look for wrong and evil, You will find them if you do ; As you measure for your neighbor, He will measure back to you.
Alice Cary.
Mrs. Carrie Cloud. Beautiful hands are those that do Work that is honest, brave and true Moment by moment, the long day through.
Beautiful feet are those that go On kindly missions to and fro Down lowliest ways, if God wills it so. Auerton.
Dr. Charles Sumner (In Memoriam.) This above all, to thine own self be true. Shakespeare.
Nellie Converse.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Lowell.
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Maria Louise Gilbert.
O'er wayward childhood wouldst thou wish to hold firm rule
And sun thee in the light of happy faces, Love, Hope and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school. Coleridge.
Florence Lillie.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them all day long ;
And so make life, death and that yast for- ever
One grand, sweet song.
Kingsley.
Mrs. Ada A. VanIngen.
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wear- ing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart. It gives harmony of soul, and is a perpetual song without words. Smiles.
Dr. Theodore C. White.
The grand essentials of happiness, are Something to do, Something to love, And something to hope for. Chalmers.
Mr. Frederic Graham. Mrs. Mary White VanZandt.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury ; refine- ment rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable ; wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly ; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages with open heart ; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely ; await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. Channing.
Mrs. John B. Stebbins. How long we live not years but actions tell. Watkins. The man lives twice who lives the first life well.
Herrick.
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Mrs. Christine B. Polley.
Love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self. He has not yet learned to love his neighbor as himself whose heart sinks within him at the words : "I say unto you love your enemies."
Mac Donald.
Mrs. C. H. Herrick.
Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest ; For time will teach you soon the truth, There are no birds in last years nest. Longfellow.
Florence Halbert. Being all fashioned of the self same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. Longfellow.
Harriet L Marks. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. Herrick.
Katherine G. Francke.
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent, All are needed by each one. Nothing is fair or good alone.
Emerson.
William C. Bryant.
When I was a member of your congre- gation I think I rather disturbed the preacher more than I contributed to the audience, neither did I fully understand the text which I now repeat as my quotation : "Thou, God seest me."
Blanche J. Bushnell. In nature, there is no blemish but the mind, None can be called deformed but the un- kind. Anon.
Mrs. Lucia H. Donaldson.
The love of praise, however concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and dwells in every heart. The proud to gain it, toils on toils endure. The modest shun it, but to make it sure. Edward Young.
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David N. Hurd.
Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.
Burns.
S. M. Badger.
There is nothing so kingly as kindness, There is nothing so royal as truth. Alice Cary.
Wm. E. Frone (In Memoriam.)
"Pleasures are ever in our hands and eyes ;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise : Present to grasp, and future still to find, The whole employ of body and of mind."
Helen Millard Halbert.
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him : and He shall bring it to pass. Psalm 37:5
" Leave to His sovereign will To choose, and to command. With wonder filled, thou shall own How wise, how strong his hand."
Lillian Bates.
This world is so full of a number of things, I think we should all be as happy as kings. Stevenson.
Anna J. Halbert.
It is not talent, nor power nor gifts that do the work of God, but it is that which lies within the power of the humblest ; it is the simple, earnest life hid with Christ in God. F. W. Robertson.
Mrs. Eunice B. Eggleston.
God doth not need
Either man's works or His own gifts ; who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best ; His state
Is kingly ; thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest ; They also serve who only stand and wait. Milton.
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Isaac B. Webb.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Earl of Chesterfield .
Mrs. John Gadsby.
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the blossoms, Kind deeds are the fruits.
Alice Cary.
Frances D. Kellogg.
" Each step following each, we mount as we are led Up the long and steep incline-
Our guide walks calm and fearless at the head
Of the long and faltering line, And shows the path where safety is By word, and look, and sign. Intent on Him, we do not note or see The hard things by the way : We only know that we are led And He whose guidance we obey, Has gone before and knows how hard it is."
Mrs. H. W. Babcock.
Even the wisest are long in learning that there is no better work for them than the bit that God puts into their hands. Edward Garrett.
Mrs. J. W. Young.
Dear Lord, how little man's award The right or wrong attest, And he who judges least, I think, Is he who judges best.
Alice Cary.
Mrs. Amelia A. Halbert.
Without murmur, uncomplaining, In His hand, Leave whatever things thou canst not Understand. K. R. Hagenbach.
Mary B. Chapman.
Heartily know, when half-gods go, the Gods arrive. Emerson.
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Rev. George Donaldson.
If any man will do His will he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself.
John 7:17.
Mrs. Stillman Smith. Frances Bates.
Be noble, And the nobleness which lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. Lowell.
Chester Bushnell.
What fate imposes, men must needs abide : It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
Shakespeare.
Henry C. Bryant.
I can't talk much, maybe. But, God helping, I can hold my tongue. And He knowns, I guess, which it takes most of a man to do. Mrs. A. D. Whitney.
Mrs. H. R. Slade. Mrs. J. S. Kellogg.
Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Holland.
E. E. Halbert.
"Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."
Austin S. Donaldson.
"I thank Thee that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes."
Gertrude Frone.
I look for my story-the birds cannot sing it, Not one as he sits on the tree ; The bells cannot ring it, but long year, O bring it 1 Such as I wish it to be.
Jean Ingelow.
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G. O. Whitcomb.
Mrs. Clare Barker Davis.
Oh, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken on the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear ! Every proverb, every book, every by-wind that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, shall surely come home through open or winding passages.
Emerson.
Mrs. A. S. Emerson.
Soul of fire in woman's clay, Where, I wonder, shall your place be In the realms of endless day ? Higginson.
Mrs. Frank Walker.
The clouds may rest on the present, And sorrow on days that are gone, But no night is so utterly cheerless That we may not look for the dawn. Phebe Cary.
Dr. Reuben Root.
An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; As useless if it goes as when it stands. Cowper.
Mrs. Nellie M. Morris.
Be not wise in thine own eyes : Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
Proverbs 3:7.
E. B. Hurlbutt.
It is not good for a man to pray cream, and live skim milk. Henry Ward Beecher.
M. Belle Hurd. "Tis Heaven alone that is given away "Tis only God may be had for the asking. Lowell.
Rev. William A. Dunning.
Our ideals are God's realities.
Mabie.
Mrs. A. F. Bishop.
A little word in kindness spoken, A motion, or a tear, Has often healed the heart that's broken, And made a friend sincere.
D. C. Colesworthy.
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T. K. Cope.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding have all they that do His commandments.
Psalms.
Mrs. M. C. Dibble.
Nor think the difference mighty as it seems Between life's morning and its evening dreams ; Four score like twenty, has its tasks and toys ; In earth's wide schoolhouse all are girls and boys. Holmes.
Ella J. Soden.
It is better not to kno' so much than to kno' so much that iz not so. Josh Billings.
Elizabeth Lathrop Gilbert.
We live in deeds, not years : He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Philip James Bailey.
Sophia M. Scotten. If happiness has not her seat and center in the breast,
We may be wise, or rich, or great, but never can be blest. Burns.
Mrs. E. B Hurlbutt.
They are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees, no renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, mis- fortune, isolation, abandonment and pov- erty are battle-fields which have their heroes-obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
Victor Hugo.
Mrs. John B. Williams.
The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Proverbs 4:18
Mary J. Myrick.
When God is pleased and wishes to bless men He loves, His hands have other gifts than silver and gold.
Ian Maclaren.
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Bertha Bishop Harris.
Truth is tough, it will not break like a bubble at a touch : Nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football and it will be round and full at evening.
Holmes.
Professor Abel Wood.
The character you are forming now will be the same a million years hence.
H. S. Taylor.
A man's reach should far exceed his grasp ; or what's a Heaven for ? Browning.
Nellie S. Myrick.
Enthusiasın is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Lytton.
Martha Root Frone. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.
Benjamin Hurd Thorp. Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : To thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not be false to any man. Shakespeare.
John Scotten ( In Memoriam.) Do what you can, being what you are, Shine like a glow-worm, if you can't be a star.
Anon.
Charles F. Blackman. "In search, at any price, Of dear delights that but abide, In ports of Paradise. He has not reached the Happy Isles, Whose gladdened eyes and ears Know not the joy too deep for smiles But manifest in tears."
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Mrs. Lucy Bryant Mc Burney.
There lies a talisman in intellect, which yields celestial music, as the master hand touches it cunningly.
N. P. Willis.
"Of making many books there is no end."
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