Even the humblest person, who sets before his self. lows an example of industry, sobriety, and uprilast, honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well agly. future influence upon the well-being of his country; for his life and character pass unconsciously into the livet of others, and propagate good example for all time to comsh -SMILES. it

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A life well-spent, a character uprightly sustained, i no slight legacy to leave to one's children and to the world; for it is the most eloquent lesson of virtue, and the severest reproof of vice, while it continues during source of the best kind of riches.

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-SMILES.

The example of men who hold a high and responsible position before the world, exercises a more than common influence and it is therefore specially desirable, that they should be men of untarnished honour and blameless lives.

-LECKY.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

-POPE.

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49. EXPERIENCE.

Experience is by industry achieved,

And perfected by the swift course of time.

S Experience is a slow preceptress.

-SHAKESPEARE.

Experience teaches people a lot of things they would rather not know.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
-MAXIM.

Practical wisdom is only to be learnt in the school of experience. Precepts and instructions are useful, so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. The hard facts of existence have to be faced, to give that touch of truth to character, which can never be imported by reading or tuition, but only by contact with the broad instincts of common men and women.

-SMILES.

The chief result gained by experience of life is clearness of view. This is what distinguishes a man of mature age, and makes the world wear such a different aspect from that which it presented in his youth or boyhood. It is only then that he sees things quite plain and takes them for that which they really are.* -SCHOPENHAUER.

From Counsels and Macims, translated by Saunders

What thy experienc teaches true
Be vigilant to heed;

The wisdom that we suffer to

Is wiser than a creed.

Men there have been, ignorant of letters; without art, without eloquence; who yet had the wisdom to devise and the courage to perform that which they lacked language to explain. Such men have worked the deliverance of nations and their own greatness. Their hearts are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

-MACAULAY.

In misfortunes a man may know a friend: in battle, a hero in a loan, an honest man: a wife, in diminished fortunes: and kinsmen in afflictions.

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-"HITOPADESHA.”*

It is human to err but diabolical to persevere in

error.

-MORAL MAXIM.

But th' only good that growes of passed feare,
Is to be wise, and ware of like agein.

-SPENSER.

Our greatest glory is not in ever failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Experience joined with common sense

To mortals is a providence.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Prof. Johnson's edition.

50. FAITH.

Faith is the dominant principle in men: whatever is a man's faith that is a man's self.

-"BHAGAVAD GITÂ."

Faith consists in four qualities: belief, self-sacrifice, sincerity, and obedience.

-"JAVIDAN-KHIRAD."*

When one has faith he is zealous; the faithless is not possessed of zeal; the faithful is alone zealous. That faith, O Lord, is sought by me.

"UPANISHAT."

A firm faith is the best divinity.

Let faith in God characterize all your thoughts, words and actions. He who serveth God, places con fidence in nothing else.†

-DADU.

There is a calm the poor in spirit know,
That softens sorrow, and that lightens woe;
There is a peace that dwells within the breast,
When all without is stormy and distrest;

There is a light that gilds the darkest hour,

From Ancient Iranian and Zoroastrian Morals, by D. J. Medhora.

† From the Works of H. H. Wilson.

When dangers threaten, and when troubles lour:
That calm to faith, and hope and love is given;
That peace remains when all beside is riven.
That light shines down to man direct from heaven.*

Faith, hope and love are golden keys,

That brighten in the using;

Thou may'st unlock all heaven with these,
Thine every foe confusing.

Faith is the star that gleams above,

Hope is the flower that buds below;

That out from Nature's bosom grow;

Twin tokens of celestial love

And still alike in sky, on sod,

That star and blossom ever point to God.

-KENT.

We need more faith in every day life,-faith in the power that works for good, faith in the Infinite God and hence faith in ourselves created in His image. And however things at times may seem to go, however dark at times appearances may be, the knowledge of the fact that “the Supreme Power has us in its charge as it has the suns and endless systems of worlds in space," will give us the supreme faith that all is well with us, the same as all is well with the world.

-RALPH WALDO TRINE.

When sorrow sinks my spirit down,
And grief overwhelms my troubled mind,
Faith cries, "Look up to God alone,
A refuge thou in Him shalt find."

* From Mary Carpenter's Meditations.