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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another?

-Plautus.

Nor knowest thou what argument thy life to thy neighbor's creed hath lent.

-Emerson.

While we deliberate about beginning, it is already too late to begin. -Quintilian.

The blessedness of life depends more upon its interests than upon its comforts. Geo. Macdonald.

Try to put well in practice what you already know; in so doing you will, in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. -Rembrandt.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities, is to be free from envy.

-La Rochefoucauld.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. (Said of Lincoln.)

-Emerson.

As worldly care forms the greater part of the staple of every human life, there must be some mode of viewing and meeting it which converts it from an enemy of spirituality into a means of grace and spiritual advancement.

-H. B. Stowe.

THE ARROW AND THE SONG

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

-Longfellow.

Accustom the children to close accuracy of statement, both as a principle of honor, and as an accomplishment of language, making truth the test of perfect language, and giving the intensity of a moral purpose to the study and art of words; then, carrying the accuracy into all habits of thought and observation, so as always to think of things as they truly are, as far as in us rests,-and it does rest much in our power, for all false thoughts and seeings come mainly of our thinking of what we have no business with, and looking for things we want to see, instead of things which ought to be seen.

-Ruskin.

Life! we've been long together

Through pleasant and through cloudy weather, 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear,Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear;

Then steal away, give little warning,

Choose thine own time;

Say not Good Night,-but in some brighter clime

Bid me Good Morning.

-A. L. Barbauld.

ETCHING

Know ye what etching is? It is to ramble
On copper; in a summer twilight's hour
To let sweet fancy fiddle tunefully.

It is the whispering from Nature's heart,
Heard when we wander on the moor, or gaze
On the sea, on fleecy clouds of heaven, or at
The rushy lake where playful ducks are splashing;
It is the down of doves, the eagle's claw;
'Tis Homer in a nutshell, ten commandments
Writ on a penny's surface; 'tis a wish,
A sigh, comprised in finely chiseled odes,
A little image in its bird's flight caught.
It is to paint on the soft gold-hued copper
With sting of wasp and velvet of the wings
Of butterfly, by sparkling sunbeams glowed,
Even so the etcher's needle; on its point
Doth catch what in the artist-poet's mind
Reality and fancy did create.

-Translated by Holda, from the Low Dutch of C. Vosmaer.

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