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What ought not to be done, do not even think of doing.

Guard well thy thoughts, for thoughts are heard in heaven.

An extraneous splendor may conceal deep and real foulness.

Grieve your enemies by preparing yourself to act in the noblest manner.

When we close our doors and shut out the world and its cares, God is present with us.

Don't desire many things and you'll get what you do desire. Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.

If we have high powers, we shall soon be conscious of them; and if we have them not, we may gradually acquire them. Nothing great is acquired at once. The vine must blossom, and bear fruit and ripen, before we have the purple cluster of the grape. "First the blade, then the ear; after that, the full corn in the ear."

Epictetus.

How is it that you are not proud of being called the sons of God? Epictetus.

If you wish to be invited to a person's house, you must pay your price, whether the coin be in praise or

attention. If not invited, you have escaped perchance praising persons whom you do not want to praise. Epictetus.

Earth has her price for what earth gives us;
The beggar's taxed for a corner to die in.
At the devil's mart all things are sold,
Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
For a cup and bells our lives we pay,
Bubbles we earn with our whole souls tasting.
'Tis only God that is given away,

'Tis only heaven may be had for the asking.

Lowell.

Happiness may fly away, pleasure pall, wealth decay, friends fail or prove unkind; but the power to serve God never fails, and the love of Him is never rejected.

Froude.

Men too often

Who is rich? He who sufficeth for himself. Who is free? The man who masters himself. sink to the level of their surroundings.

Epictetus.

Act well the part assigned you by the great Master of the drama. If He wish you to act a beggar's part, act it naturally, and well. Epictetus.

Eager youth will not believe it, but it is as certain as arithmetic, that beauty only is no foundation for lasting attachment. "Handsome is that handsome does." The richest setting will not give a prolonged currency to a false diamond.

Honor, precedence, confidence, whether they be good things or evil things, are things for which their own price must be paid. Lettuces are sold; if you want your lettuce you must pay your penny.

He that loves a rosy cheek,

Or a coral lip admires;

Who from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires;
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must haste away.

But a smooth and steadfast mind,
Gentle thoughts and calm desires,
Hearts with equal love combined,
Kindle never-dying fires.
Where these are not, I despise

Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.

When thou art vexed or grieved, consider a man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

If you cannot maintain a true and magnanimous character, go courageously into some corner where you can maintain them. Nowhere, either with more quiet or with more freedom, does a person retire than into the secret recesses of his soul.

Language is the soul's expression.

God made the glow-worm as well as the star. The light in both is divine. It is nothing to a man to be greater or less than another, to be esteemed, or otherwise, by the public or private world in which he moves.

MacDonald.

Intensity and endurance cannot exist in the human economy. "He that believeth shall not make haste." Labor without perturbation, readiness without hurry, no haste, no hesitation, should be the law of our activity.

MacDonald.

No motion without power, no order without place, no greater growing from a less.

God has so made us that every one who thinks at all, thinks in a way that must be more or less fresh to every one else who thinks, if he only have the power of setting forth his thoughts so that we can see what they are.

Often when life looked dreary about me from some real or fancied injustice or indignity, has a thought of truth been flashed upon me from a flower, or shape of frost, or even a lingering shadow, not to mention such glories as angel-winged clouds, rainbows, stars, and sunsets and sunrises. MacDonald.

No one has any right to say that anything might have been other than what has been. Before a thing happened, we can say might, or might not, but that has to do with only our ignorance. Life's troubles will

come, which look as if they never would pass away, but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed. The storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is peace.

MacDonald.

Truth thought and believed makes theologians. Truth seen and felt makes seers and prophets.

Recipe for perennial youth: Learn something new every day. Do something for others daily. Pray without ceasing.

God has made the world so that we have only to be born in a certain place, and live in it long enough to get the secret of it, and henceforth we call it home, with all the wonderful meaning in the word. The laws of nature reveal their character, not only as regards their ends, but their kind, being of necessity fashioned after ideal facts of God's own being and will.

What is heaven? God himself. with us, is home in its highest sense.

God in us and

It is the father

and mother that make the home for the child.

MacDonald.

Life is strong, and still bears onward to new tasks

and sorrows new, whether we will or no.

Trench.

Societies are most deeply indebted to those who have resisted them in the name of truth and thought. An immoral law that would compel me to do what my

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