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Irresolution in the schemes of life which offer themselves to our" choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness. Addison.

I can hardly understand how any great imaginative man who has deeply lived, suffered, thought, and wrought can doubt of the soul's con- tinuous progress in after life. Alfred Tennyson.

During a long life I have proved that not one kind word ever spoken, not one kind deed ever done, but sooner or later returns to bless the giver, and becomes a chain, binding men with golden bands to the throne of God. Lord Shaftesbury.

Of old, men traced Caesar's march through Gaul by the villages he destroyed, and the fields he devastated; but we trace the heroes' progress through the centuries by the wastes that have become gardens and the deserts that now are Edens.— Hillis.

"The mainstay of civilization," said Gladstone, "is a living faith in a personal God. After sixty years of public life, I hold more strongly than ever to this conviction, deepened and strengthened by long experience by the reality, the nearness and the personality of God."

The way to find opportunities is to perform every task you under- take so thoroughly and so faithfully that you will attract the attention of your employer. If you do this, you will not be likely to remain long in obscurity. Even if you are not recognized immediately and advanced, it is the most rapid road to promotion.

An achievement to be proud of is that which carries immortality with it. No success is worthy the name which does not include character development. If a career has not an upward as well as an onward ten- dency, if a man has groveled in the mire, he is a failure though he have millions. That only is real success which aspires, which looks up, and which helps others to look up as well.