If with high-bounding pride he return to his bride,
Renouncing the gore-crimsoned spear;

All his toils are repaid, when, embracing the maid,
From her eyelid he kisses the tear.

Sweet scene of my youth, seat of friendship and truth!
Where love chased each fast-fleeting year;.

Loath to leave thee, I mourned, for a last look I turned,
But thy spire was scarce seen through a tear.

Ye friends of my heart! ere from you I depart,
This hope to my breast is most near-
If again we shall meet in this rural retreat,
May we meet, as we part, with a tear.

When my soul wings her flight to the regions of night,
And my corse shall recline on its bier,

As ye pass by the tomb where my ashes consume,
Oh, moisten their dust with a tear!

May no marble bestow the splendour of woe,
Which the children of vanity rear !

No fiction of fame shall blazon my name,
All I ask, all I wish, is a tear !—Byron.

The Chinese word for eyelid is eminently beautiful, signifying "the cradle of tears."

Tell-tales.

Tell-tales are contemptible beings. To retail in one house what is seen or spoken of in any other, is a treason against society, which cannot be too thoroughly despised.

Temperance.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,

When once it is within thee; but before

May'st rule it, as thou list, and pour the shame,
Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.

It is most just to throw that on the ground
Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.

Herbert.

- Temperance is the guardian of reason, the bulwark of religion, the sister of prudence, and her handmaid, the sweetener of life, the pleasure of earth, the comfort of death, and the road to heaven. Have you any regard for your health, your substance, or your character ?-Be temperate. Have you any regard for your time or for your soul?-Be temperate. So shall time carry you forward on its calmest current, till it lands you on the continent of a purer eternity, as the swelling river rolls its limpid stream into the bosom of the unfathomable deep.

- Our physical well-being, our moral worth, our social happiness, our political tranquillity, all depend upon the control of our appetites and passions, which the Ancients designated by the cardinal virtue of Temperance.

- Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the bairns, vigour in the body, intelligence in the brain, and spirit in the whole constitution.

Those in their youth who have forborne to apply

Hot and rebellious liquors to their blood,

Or with an unabashed front to woo

The means of languor and debility,

The Age of these is as a lusty Winter-
Frosty, yet kindly.-Shakespere.

"That."

I'll prove the word that I have made my theme,
Is that that may be doubled without blame;
And that that that, thus trebled, I may use,
And that that that, that critics may abuse,
May be correct. Further, the dons to bother,
Five thats may closely follow one another !
For well 'tis known that we may safely write,
Or say, that that that, that that man writ, was right;
Nay, e'en, that that that, that that, that has follow'd
Through six repeats, the grammar's rule has hallow'd;
And that that that, that that, that that began,

Repeated seven times is right!-Deny it who can.--Mirror.

He is

"They Say" often tells that which is not true. about, the worst authority you can produce to support the credibility of your statement. Scarcely ever is a suspicious report put in circulation, but this Mr. They Say is the author of it; and he always escapes responsibility and detection, because, living nowhere, he cannot be found. Who said that Mr. the merchant, was in a failing condition? Why, "They Say" so. On what authority do you affirm that neighbour J. has been in bad company? Why, "They Say" so. Is it a fact that Miss V. is not so circumspect as she should be? Why, "They Say" so. Plague on this Mr. They Say he is half-brother to Mr. Nobody, who always does all the mischief, and lives nowhere but in the inventive brain of those who, undeserving respect themselves, are desirous to pull others down to their own level. We always suspect the truth of a report which comes from the authority of "They Say."

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Thought.

Thinking leads man to knowledge; he may see, and hear, and read, and learn whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which, by thinking, he has made the property of his mind. Is it, then, saying too much, if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains ?-Pestalozzi.

Thought engenders thought. Place one idea upon paper-another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page. You cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought there which has no bottom. The more you draw from it, the more clear and plentiful it will be. If you neglect to think yourself, use other people's thoughts, giving them utterance only, you will never know what you are capable of. At first your ideas may come in lumpshomely and shapeless; but no matter, time and perseverance will arrange and refine them. Learn to think, and you will learn to write; the more you think, the better you will express your ideas.

And spoil, like bales unopen❜d to the sun.

Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied ;
Speech, thoughts conceal! Speech, thoughts' criterion too ↓
Thought in the mind may come forth gold or dross ;
When coin'd in word, we know its real worth.
If sterling, store it for thy future use;
"Twill buy thee benefit; perhaps renown.
Thought, too, deliver'd, is the more possest;
Teaching, we learn; and, giving, we retain
The births of intellect; when dumb, forgot.
Speech ventilates our intellectual fire;
Speech burnishes our mental magazine ;

Brightens for ornament; and whets for use.-Young.

- A fountain from which flows all good and evil intentions; a mental fluid, electrical in the force and rapidity of its movements, and silently flowing within its own secret avenues; yet it is the controlling power of all animated matter, and the chief mainspring of all our actions.

Severe decrees may keep the soul in awe,
But to our thoughts-what edict can give law?

Thought and Feeling.

Dryden.

There is a thread in our thoughts, as there is a pulse in our hearts; he who can hold the one, knows how to think; and he who can move the other, knows how to feel.Disraeli.

Thoughts and Words.

Thoughts

Should be wrought, not cast; like temper'd steel,
Burn'd and cool'd, burn'd again, and cool'd again.
A thought is like a ray of light-complex
In nature, simple only in effect.

Words are the motes of thoughts, and nothing more.
Words are like sea-shells on the shore; they show
Where the mind ends, and not how far it has been.
Let every thought, too, soldier-like, be stript,

And roughly looked over.
The dress of words,
Like to the Roman girl's enticing garb,

Should let the play of limb be seen through it,

And the round rising form. A mist of words,

Like halos round the moon, though they enlarge
The seeming size of thoughts, make the light less
Doubly. It is the thought writ down we want,
Not its effect-not likenesses of likenesses.-Bailey.

Thunder.

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven

Which when men hear, they think on heaven's King,
And run the items o'er of the account,

To which he's sure to call them.-J. S. Knowles.

Time-Measured Duration.

Hours have wings, and fly up to the Author of time, and carry news of our usage: all our prayers cannot entreat one of them to return, or slacken his pace; the ill-usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.-Zimmerman.

Time never bears such moments on his wing,

As when he flies too swiftly to be mark'd.-Baillie.

Time.

Why sitt'st thou by that ruined hall,

Thou aged carle so stern and gray?

Dost thou its former pride recall,
Or ponder how it passed away?

"Knowest thou not me?" the Deep Voice cried,
"So long enjoyed, so oft misused-

Alternate, in thy fickle pride,

Desired, neglected, and accused?

"Before my breath, like blazing flax,
Man and his marvels pass away;
And changing empires wane and wax,
Are founded, flourish, and decay.