SUPPLEMENT TO

One Hundred Choice Selections, No. 27

CONTAINING

SENTIMENTS For Public Occasions;

WITTICISMS For Home Enjoyment;

LIFE THOUGHTS For Private Reflection;

FUNNY SAYINGS For Social Pastime, &o.

Nothing can work me damage, except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Judge none lost; but wait and see
With hopeful pity, not disdain;
The depth of the abyss may be

The measure of the night of pain;
And love and glory that may raise
This soul to God in after days.

St. Bernard

Adelaide Annie Procter.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never

do anything.

Samuel Johnson,

Joy, and Temperance, and Repose,
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim-milk.

Silence is the highest wisdom of a fool, and speech is the greatest trial of a wise man. If one would be wise let his

words show him so.

Quarles.

He that is drunken

Is outlawed by himself; all kinds of ill
Did with the liquor slide into his veins.

Herbert

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Books are the true metempsychosis,—they are the symbol and presage of immortality.

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth;
But the plain single vow that is vowed true.

Every fool is wise when he holds his tongue.

Speak no evil and cause no ache;

Utter no jest that can pain awake;

Beecher.

Shakspeare.

Guard your actions and bridle your tongue;
Words are adders when hearts are stung.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure,
Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright;
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor,
And find a harvest-home of light.

Emerson.

A man must take the fat with the lean, that's what he must make up his mind to in this life.

Each hour has its appointed sound;
All life is set with rhythmic times;

The notes escape earth's narrow bound,
But God is ringing out the chimes.

Dickens

H. H.

When a man just lives for what he can get and what clothes he can wear, he is not ten feet from the basement. Sam Jones.

There is in each life some time or spot,
Some hour or moment of night or day,
That never grows dim and is never forgot,
Like an unfaded leaf in a dead bouquet;
Some rare season, however brief,

That stands forever and aye the same,
A sweet, bright picture in bass-relief,
Hanging before us in memory's frame.

Do you ever look at yourself when you abuse another

person?

Help whoever, whenever you can;

Man forever needs aid from man;

Let never a day die in the west

That you have not comforted some sad breast.

The most honorable of all friends is the looking-glass, that will not speak, that keeps no secret journal for future treach ery, that meets you with the very face you bring to it, that beholds all your weaknesses without chiding, and never hints advice; into whose placid depths sink, as into a sea, in utter forgetfulness, all the secrets which have figured on its face. Beecher.

Be not like a stream that brawls
Loud with shallow waterfalls;
But in quiet self-control

Link together soul and soul.

Longfellow.

We can only have the highest happiness by having wide thoughts and as much feeling for the rest of the world as ourselves.

Learning is an addition beyond
Nobility or birth; honor of blood

Without the ornament of knowledge, is

A glorious ignorance.

The difference between a wise man and a fool is that one knows how to keep the foolishness in and the other lets it all out.

Fill every hour with what will last;

Buy up the moments as they go,
The life above, when this is past,

Is the ripe fruit of life below.

Oh, there is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first flutterings of its silken wings, the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or destroy it.

Longfellow.

Of all the good things in this good world around us,
The one most abundantly furnished and found us,
And which, for that reason, we least care about,
And can best spare our friends, is good counsel, no doubt
Owen Meredith.

Read, not to contradict and confute-not to believe and take for granted-not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

He liveth long who liveth well,

All else is life but flung away,

He liveth longest who can tell

Of true things truly done each day.

Bacon

Every individual should bear in mind that he is sent into the world to act a part in it, and, though one may have a more splendid and another a more obscure part assigned him, yet the actor of each is equally responsible.

Good deeds in this world done,

Are paid beyond the sun,
As water on the root,

Is seen above in fruit.

Oriental Poem.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Attempt the end, and never stand in doubt;

Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. Herrick. The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. Dr. Chapin There is no state in which the bounteous gods

Have not placed joy, if men would seek it out. Crown. Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Phil. iv. 8.

Labor is life-'tis the still water faileth;
Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth;
Keep the watch wound or the dark rust assaileth.
Mrs. Osgood,

The man who feels certain he will not succeed is seldom mistaken.

The man who accords

To his language the license to outrage his soul,
Is controlled by the words he disdains to control.
Owen Meredith.

Memory is a net. One finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

As the evening twilight fades away

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Longfellow.

Great thoughts are our most precious and abiding treasures, and they should be eagerly sought and carefully stored in the caves of memory.

Obstinacy's ne'er so stiff

As when 'tis in a wrong belief.

Butler.

Fancies, like wild flowers, in a night may grow;
But thoughts are plants whose stately growth is slow.
Mrs. E. C. Kinney.

That man lives happy and in command of himself who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illuminate the following day, that which is past is beyond recall. Horace.

Oh! dark were life without heaven's sun to show
The likeness of the other world in this;
And bare and poor would be our lot below
Without the shadow of a world of bliss.
Then let us, passing o'er life's fragile arch,
Regard it as a means and not an end;

As but the path of faith on which we march
To where all glories of our being end.

Macmillan.

It is the best and the highest aspiration that I can utter for America and America's children in the ages that are to come, that they may forever and altogether be worthy of the Constitution that their fathers bequeathed to them.

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.

R. B. Hayes.

Look for goodness, look for gladness,
You will meet them all the while;
If you bring a smiling visage
To the glass, you meet a smile.

Alice Cary.

Chickering's grandest grand piano, with a fool playing jigs on it, is not so good as an old harpsichord with Beethoven at the keys. Beecher.

Let any man once show the world that he feels
Afraid of its bark, and 'twill fly at his heels;
Let him fearlessly face it, 'twill leave him alone;
But 'twill fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.

Owen Meredith.

As a rule, he is the happiest man who is contented with what he has, and is not waiting for next year, or the next decade, to have a protracted period of enjoyment.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves,

We shall be honest with each other.

MacDonald