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Show GEMS OF THOUGHT. A good conscience makes an easy couch. Each day is a little life; our life Is but a day repeated. It costs more to revengs injuries than to bear them. True eloquence consists in saying all that is required and in saying only what is required. ... in... ..i , i t v.. . , : .. No idlest word thou speakest but ia a seed cast (nto time, and grows through all eternity. eter-nity. ; , i . . Scandals aro like dandelion seeds; they are arrowheaded and stick when they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. Life is a sacred trust to all. He is at fault who does not take due care of his own ; he ia guilty who does not respect the lives of others. It should seem that indolence itself would induce a person to bo honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave. Money to a mau ia liko water to a plant, only useful as long as it promotes growth-like growth-like water in the fountain or water in the tank, keep it flowing, and it blesses; keep it stagnant, and it injures. A good inclination 1 but the first rude draught of virtue; but the finishing stroke are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect; if ill disposed, will by the superlnduction of ill habits quickly deface it. '..'.' A young man must so conduct himself as to command the respect and confidence of all with whom he coiaeein contact. The way in which he is regarded by others will bavo a powerful Influence on his future. To disregard disre-gard the opinions of others would be to invite failure. Prejudice may be considered oi a continual false medium of viewing things; for the prejudiced pre-judiced not only never speak well, but also never tbluk well of those whom they dislike, and the whole character and conduce is so considered with an eye to that particular thing which offends them. v Good manners are the blossoms of good sense and of good'f8etrfl. ' If the law of kindness kind-ness be written on the.heart, it will lead to that disinterestedness in both great and little things that desire to oblige, and that attention atten-tion to the gratification of others, which are the foundation of good manners. Montreal Star. |