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Show WISE WORDS. Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. - Shakespeare. If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. - Balwer Lytton. The charities that soothe and heal and bless are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. - Wordsworth. Brevity is the best recommendation of a speech, not only in the case of a senator, but in that, too, of an orator. - Cicero. IF the soul be happily disposed, everything becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name. - Oliver Goldsmith. A man should fear when he enjoys only what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity, rather than the charity, that he loves? - H.W. Beecher. When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by; it is good, and made by a good workman. - Bruyere. The era of Christianity - peace, brotherhood, the golden rule as applied to governmental matters - is yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure. - Kossuth. It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. - South. There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of everyday life, and bloom only in a shade of solitude, beneath the quiet stars. - H.T. Tackerman. I have no respect for that self-boasting charity which neglects all objects of commiseration near and around it, but goes to the end of the earth in search of misery, for the purpose of talking about it. - George Mason. The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the bales of human beings, as the flowers paint in meadows. They are not the front of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct. - George Bancroft. The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker - it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty. - Theodore Parker. |