8. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected. - Addison.

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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her - Emerson.

Nature, like a cautious testator, ties up her estate so as not to bestow all on one generation; but has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next, and the next, and the fourth, and the fortieth. Emerson.

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We know not whither the hunter went,

Or how the last of his days was spent;

For the moon drew nigh—but he came not back
Weary and faint from his forest track. Whittier.

12. I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes going along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them. -Hazlitt.

13. The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages; but Time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity. Bishop Heber.

14. The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation.-Emerson.

15. It is surprising to what simple terms the profoundest and grandest ideas can be reduced by a great thinker who has perfectly mastered his subject. - Newton Bateman.

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-Shakespeare.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. 17. Every blade of grass in the field is measured; the green cups and the colored crowns of every flower are curiously counted; the stars of the firmament wheel in calculated orbits; even the storms have their laws. - Blaikie.

18. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance; but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Carlyle.

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In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
In war he mounts the warrior's steed;
In halls in gay attires is seen,

In hamlets, dances on the green.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,

And men below, and gods above;

For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Scott.

I held it truth, with him who sings

To one clear harp in divers tones,

That men may rise on stepping-stones

Of their dead selves to higher things. - Tennyson.

21. The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. - Franklin.

22. The imprudent man reflects on what he has said; the wise man on what he is going to say.

23. When a deed is done for freedom, through the broad

earth's aching breast

Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east

24. Who gives a trifle meanly, is meaner than a trifle.

25. And, as I passed by, I heard the complaints of the laborers who had reaped down his fields, and the cries of the poor whose covering he had taken away.

26. I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. Washington.

27. To live in hearts we leave behind

Is not to die. Campbell.

28. The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins. Holmes.

29. When all was over, Wellington said to Blucher, as he stood by him on a little eminence looking down upon the field covered with the dead and dying, "A great victory is the saddest thing on earth, except a great defeat."

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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,

To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Upon the rainbow, or with taper light

To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shakespeare.

Like leaves on trees the life of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race the following spring supplies,

They fall successive and successive rise;

So generations in their course decay;

So flourish these, while those have passed away.

I would not enter on my list of friends
The man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

Cowper.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?

- Byron.

34. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. Locke.

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'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with else-
where. - John Howard Payne.

This is the state of man. To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost;
And when he thinks good, easy man
His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
And then he falls, as I do. - Shakespeare.

full surely

37. A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind. - Shenstone.

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The quality of mercy is not strained,

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. Shakespeare.

The bird that soars on highest wing
Builds on the ground her lowly nest;
And she that does most sweetly sing,

Sings in the shade when all things rest.
In lark and nighingale we see

What honor hath humility.—James Montgomery.

When Freedom from her mountain height

Unfurled her standard to the air,

She tore the azure robe of night,

And set the stars of glory there. Drake.

41. The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. - Emerson.

42. Any life that is worth living must be a struggle, a swimming not with, but against, the stream. Dean Stanley.

43. We cannot help rejoicing in the increasing prominence of the idea that every being whom the world contains has his true place, written in the very makeup of his nature, and that to find that place and make him fit to fill it is the duty of his educators in all their various regards. — Phillips Brooks.

44. It would seem to have been especially ordered by Providence, that the discovery of the two great divisions of the American hemisphere should fall to the two races best fitted to conquer and colonize them. - Prescott.

45. It has been estimated that the quantity of heat discharged over the Atlantic from the waters of the Gulf Stream, on a winter's day, would be sufficient to raise the column of the atmosphere that rests upon France and the British Isles from the freezing point to summer heat. — Maury.

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Not merely growing, like a tree,

In bulk, doth make man better be;

Or standing long an oak three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear.
A lily of a day is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night.
It was the plant and flower of light;
In small proportions, we just beauties see,
And, in short measure, life may perfect be.

- Ben Jonson.

To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language: for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty; and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, e'er he is aware. - Bryant.

'Tis not alone through toil and strength of soul
That life's success is always to be won,

(For see how many fail to reach the goal,
Though struggling till their weary lives are done).
But there must be the gift aright to choose

The path which Nature for each life ordains,
Else may the giant through misguidance lose
That which the weaker fellow-mortal gains.

Grave is the master's look; his forehead wears
Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares;
Uneasy lie the heads of all that rule,

His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.
Supreme he sits; before the awful frown
That binds his brow the boldest eye goes down;
Not more submissive Israel heard and saw

At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law. - Holmes.