Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

GEORGE ELIOT.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward offered, for they are gone forever.

HORACE MANN.

He liveth long who liveth well,
All else is life but flung away;

He liveth longest who can tell

Of true things truly done each day.

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MEMORY GEMS

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today

than he was yesterday.

LINCOLN.

Patience is powerful.

LONGFELLOW.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of

the year.

This world is full of beauty,

Like other worlds above,

And if we did our duty

It might be full of love.

GERALD MASSY.

Attention is the mother of memory.

SAMUEL JOHNSON.

He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.

TENNYSON.

Life is not so short, there is always time for courtesy.

EMERSON.

It is a greater compliment to be trusted, than to be

loved.

MACDONALD.

Be quick to love; make haste to be kind.

AMIEL.

MEMORY GEMS

Think that day lost, whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand, no noble action done.

He who is honest is noble,

Whatsoever his fortunes or birth.

175

BOBART.

ALICE CARY.

God remembers all the works

That he in love hath made;
O'er all his watchfulness and care
Are night and day displayed.

The patient child whose watchful eye
Strives after all things pure and high,
Shall take their image by and by.

Look for goodness, look for gladness,
You will meet them all the while;

If you bring a smiling visage
To the glass, you meet a smile.

Let them laugh that win.

ALICE CARY.

PROVERB.

Look up, and not down; look out, and not in; look forward, and not backward; and lend a hand.

EDWARD EVERETT HALE.

A gift in need, though small indeed,
Is large as earth and rich as heaven.

WHITTIER.

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MEMORY GEMS

Pleasure comes through toil; when one gets to love his work, his life is a happy one.

RUSKIN.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

RUSKIN.

Without halting, without rest,

Lifting better up to best.

MARY W. WILLIAMS.

Leave no tender word unsaid,

And love while life shall last;

The mill never, never grinds with the water that is past.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old time is still a-flying;

And this same flower that smiles today
To-morrow will be dying.

Good lieth not in pursuing,

HERRICK.

Nor gaining of great, nor of small,

But just in the doing and doing

As we would be done by, is all.

ALICE CARY.

Do not look for wrong and evil—
You will find them if you do;
As you measure for your neighbor
He will measure back to you.

ALICE CARY.

MEMORY GEMS

Learn to make the most of life,
Lose no happy day,

For time will never bring you back

The moments thrown away.

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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them all day long:
And so make life, death, and the vast forever
One grand, sweet song.

CHARLES KINGSLEY.

We all have our proper sphere here below,
And this is truth worth knowing:
You will come to grief if you try to go
Where you were never made for going.

Nothing useless is or low,

PHOEBE CARY.

Each thing in its place is best,
And what seems but idle show

Strengthens and supports the rest.

LONGFELLOW.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

FRANKLIN.

The heroes are not all six feet tall,
Large souls may dwell in bodies small.
The heart that will melt with sympathy
For the poor and weak, whoe'er it be,
Is a thing of beauty, whether it shine
In a man of forty or a lad of nine.