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Show GEMS OF THOUGHT. A man may know much and yet ba nothing. We lose our gTiefs by making others cease to grieve. ah . Humility ever dwells with men of noble mii.ds. No guilty man is ever acquitted; he lives self-condemned. Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. Silence is the safest response for all J the contradiction that arises from im- J pertinence, vulgarity or envy. J How few there are who have cour- .1 age enough to own their faults, or res- j olution enough to mend them. I Would you live with ease, do what you ought, -and not what you please. , f Without justice, courage id weak. ? To excel others is a proof of talent"; but to know when to conceal that su- I periority is a greater proof of pru- t , dence. t I There is sometimes a period of wait- t ing and perplexity before prosperity, I I like the dense darkness that precedes j the dawn. t We are always complaining that our days are few and acting as though there would be no end of them. Sen- I eca, j A man's ledger does not tell what he l is or what he is worth. Count what isi in man. not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth whether rich or poor. Worrying is one of the greatest drawbacks draw-backs to happiness. Most of it can be avoided if we only determine not to let trifles annoy us; for the largest amount of worrying is caused by the smallest trifles. One comfort is that great men. taken up any way. are protitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining i something by him. He is the livins j light fountain, which it is good and j' pleasant to be near. Honesty does not require us to hang 1 our oil paintings face to the wall in order that our friends may see they are made on coarse canvas. It is right to appear at our best. Give the world f your brightest thoughts, your most courteous speech, the outcome of your j kindest impulses and purest motives. I no matter if you are conscious that these things are above your ordinary level. God made the flowers to show their colors, not their dull, fibrous matter; mat-ter; to load the air with their odors, not with the rankness of their sap. Trayer can obtain everything: it can . open the windows of heaven and shut the gates of hell: it can put a holy constraint upon God, and detain an angel an-gel till he leave a blessing; it can open the treasures of rain and soften the iron of rocks till they melt into tears and ; a flowing river: prayer can unclasp the girdles of the north, saying to a ;? mountain of ice, "Be thou removed hence and cast into the bottom of the sea:" it can arrest the sun in the midst of his course, and send the swift-winged swift-winged winds upon our errand: and all : those strange things and secret decrees de-crees and unrevealed transactions, which are above the clouds, and far beyond the regions of the stars, shall combine in ministry and advantages for the praying man. |