In Lighter Mood

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That which we acquire with most difficulty we retain the longest. Colton.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. Messinger.

"Life's greatest art, learned through its hardest knocks, Is to make stepping-stones of stumbling blocks."

To admire what is admirable, to adore what is adorable, to follow what is noble, to remember any such examples that have crossed our earthly pilgrimage, that have brightened its darkness and cheered its

dullness — this keeps alive before us the ideal of human nature and the essence of the divine nature. The good thoughts, the good deeds, the good memories of those who have been the salt and the light of the earth do not perish with their departure —they live on still ; and those who have wrought them live in them. A. P. Stanley.

Shun the very beginnings of evil. Refuse to keep company with those who tell the questionable story and who speak slightingly of that which is pure and innocent. Avoid such men as you would the pestilence. No matter if they seem good in other respects. As a chemist can tell from one drop of blood that there is poison in the veins, as a chip will tell you the current of a stream, so in these beginnings there are the

seeds of disease which will surely end in failure and moral death. Be- ware of harboring impure thoughts for they are like the spark in the hold of a ship; it will work its way right and left until there is a bed of fire under your feet, and destruction is at hand. S. B. Capen.

Two thirsty travelers chanced one day to meet Where a spring bubbled from the burning sand; One drank out of the hollow of his hand, And found the water very cool and sweet. The other waited for a smith to beat And fashion for his use a golden cup; And while he waited, fainting in the heat, The sunshine came and drank the fountain up! Alice Cary. )