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moral progress, nought but an innate spiritual compass is a sufficient guide.

All our intelligent actions must be classed as good or evil, and He alone in whose hands are no doubtful balances of right and wrong, can determine their true character.

Endurance is a virtue not sufficiently appreciated in these days of hurry and excitement.

"Whoso endureth to the end,'

So long ago these words were spoken,
Hearts fail and bowed heads earthward bend,
Yet who shall say the pledge is broken.
Brave hearts may read the promise still,
Though writ in lines of pain and loss;
The path lies onward up the hill,

Though every milestone be a cross."

PART II.

DESIRE nothing too much. If you cannot frame your circumstances in accordance with your wishes, frame your will in harmony with your circumstances: When what thou willest befalls not, thou, then, must will what befalleth thee. Epictetus.

No one can insult you if you will not regard his words or deeds as insults.

Am I to set my life upon a throw, because a bear is rude and surly? No. A modest, sensible and well bred man will not insult me, and no other can.

Cowper.

Do what is right, irrespective of what people say or think.

Feed on your own principles; do not throw them up to show how much you have eaten.

Epictetus.

Above all things, be not censorious.

Be self-denying, but do not boast of it. Be independent, and regard not the opinion and censure of others, but keep a watch upon yourself, as your own most dangerous enemy. Do not plume yourself upon an intellectual knowledge of philosophy, which, in itself, is valueless without nobleness of action.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

Epictetus.

They that be whole need not a physician, but they

that are sick.

Matt. 9: 12.

Wine above all things does God's image deface.

Herbert.

Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, a name, or not even a name, for name is sound and echo. The things which are much valued in life are empty, and rotten, and trifling, and little dogs biting one another, and little children quarrelling, laughing, and then straightway weeping; but fidelity, modesty, justice and truth are fled. It would be better to depart from mankind without having had a taste of lying and hypocrisy, and lunacy and pride. Marcus Aurelius.

No wrong act of another need bring shame upon us. Our own anger hurts us more than the acts themselves.

Marcus Aurelius.

Great actions cannot be achieved by wicked means.

To deliberate when duty calls is to be lost. We must act always on principle. Never pause to calculate consequences. Desire to be pure to your own better self, and to God. The man that procrastinates struggles ever with ruin.

How easy to keep free from sin,
How hard that freedom to recall,
For awful truth it is, that men

Epictetus.

Forget the heaven from which they fall.

Coventry Patmore.

Go up into the tribunal of thy conscience, and set thyself before thyself.

We must learn a great deal to be able to pass a correct judgment on another person's acts.

Rhetoric may be taught if one think it worth learning, but eloquence is a gift as innate as the genius from which it springs.

Rev. F. N. Farrer.

God kindles the light of genius where He will. He can inspire the meanest slave with the highest thoughts.

Such seeds are scattered night and day

By the soft winds from heaven,
And in the poorest human clay

Have taken root and thriven,

No one is a slave whose will is free..

Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage;

Minds innocent and quiet, take
That for a heritage.

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

He who is great when he falls, is great in his pros

tration.

It is natural to lay the hand most often upon the spot which pains.

Seneca.

The grandest of all spectacles: a good man struggling with the storms of fate.

Even from an obscure corner it is possible to spring up into heaven.

What good, asked some one, did Helvidius Priscus do in resisting Vespasian, being but one single person? What good, replied Epictetus, does the purple on the garment? Why, it is splendid in itself, and splendid also in the example which it affords.

Epictetus.

When little boys thrust their hands into narrowmouthed jars of figs and almonds, when they have filled their hands they cannot draw them out again, and so begin to howl. And so you; let go your desires.

Epictetus.

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