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"Industry is Fortune's right hand, and frugality her left." "The first thing to do, if you have not done it, is to fall in love with your work."

Many aman who is anxious to reform the world has a gate that is hanging by one hinge. Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart or a lame endeavor.-Barrow.

"The thought must breathe, and the word must burn, before it can find lodgment and kindle the fire in the heart of another." He who loseth wealth loseth much; he who loseth a friend loseth more; but he who loseth his energies loseth all."-Spanish Proverb. When you are an anvil, hold you still; When you are a hammer, strike your fill. -Italian Proverb.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. -From the German .

You can restrain the bold, guide the impetuous, encourage the timid, but for the weak their is no help. You might as well undertake to stand a wet string up on end. "The value of life is determined by two things," says Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "the happiness we get out of it, and the influence we leave on others. Unless one or the other is satisfactory, life will be a failure." ' Tis always morning somewhere ; and above The awakening continents from shore to shore, Somewhere the birds are singing evermore. -Longfellow .

Every good act is charity: Your smiling inyour brother's face; your putting a wanderer in the right road; your giving water to the thirsty,

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is charity; exhortation to another to do right is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done in this world tohis fellow-men. When he dies people will ask, "What property has he left behind?" But the angels will ask, "What good deeds has he sent before him?"-From a sermon by Mohammed.

Have hope! Though clouds environ round And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow,- No night but hath its morn. -Schiller .

"You charge me fifty sequins," said a Venetian nobleman to a sculp- tor, "for a bust that cost you only ten days' labor." "You forget," said the artist, "that Ihave been thirty years learn- ing to make that bust in ten days."

God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait. -Milton .

"So, as up life's hill we journey, Let us scatter, all the way, Kindly words, for they are sunshine In the dark and cloudy day. Grudge no loving word or action, As along through life you go : There are weary ones around you,- If you love them, tell them so."