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Show WISE WORDS. <br><br> He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. - [Plato <br><br> If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. - [Seneca <br><br> He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. - [Lavaire. The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of affliction. - [Chapin. <br><br> I never knew a child of God being bankrupted by his benevolence. What we keep we may lose, but what we give to Christ we are sure to keep. - [Cayler. The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man cannot see him; but he always is looking down upon us, and will soon hover nearer to us. - [Richter. Study rather to fill your minds than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them. - [Seneca. <br><br> To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. - [Hume. <br><br> Those passionate persons who carry their heart in their mouth are rather to be pitied than feared; their threatening serving no other purpose than to forearm him that is threatened. - [Faller. <br><br> All the good things of this world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and, whatever we may heap up to give to others, we enjoy only so much as we can use, and no more. - [Defoe. <br><br> I have read the Bible through many times. It is a book of all others for lawyers as well as divines, and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and rule for conduct. - [Webster. <br><br> It is a belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested and richly productive of interest. - [Goethe. <br><br> Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property. - [Collier. |