FALSEHOOD.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

O. W. HOLMES.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings and can fly far and wide.

BISHOP WARBURTON.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

EPICTETUS.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

HERBERT.

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord; but they that deal truly are his delight. Bible.

Oh! what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.

SCOTT.

He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one. POPE.

And he that does one fault at first,

And lies to hide it, makes it two.

WATTS.

A lie is like a vizard, that may cover the face indeed but can never become it.

SOUTH.

Be firm; one constant element in luck

Is genuine solid old Teutonic pluck;

See yon tall shaft; it felt the earthquake's thrill, Clung to its base, and greets the sunrise still.

Be firm of heart;

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O. W. HOLMES.

By fusion of unnumbered years

A continent its vastness rears!

A drop, 'tis said, through flint will wear;
Toil on, and nature's conquest share!

Toil on!"

FORGIVENESS.

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

H. W. BEECHER.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

RICHTER.

No man is free who cannot command himself. EPICTETUS.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered.

LORD MANSfield.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. DANIEL WEBSTER.

Lord of the Universe! shield us and guide us, Trusting Thee always, through shadow and

sun!

Thou hast united us, who shall divide us?

Keep us, O keep us-the Many in one.

FRIENDSHIP.

O. W. HOLMES.

"A false friend, like a shadow, attends only while the sun shines."

"The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful; wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonition, not tainted with flattery."

FELTHAM.

"Be true to your word, your work and your

friend."

FRIENDSHIP.

"Prevent a friend from doing you good, impress him with the idea that he is of no use to you, and his affection will cool.

But ask a man for little services he is ready to render, let him know and keep in his mind that he has conferred a benefit upon you, and he will like you all the more for it, become interested in your welfare, and feel real devotion for you. I have never known this experiment to fail."

We should praise our friends dear ones

our near and we should look on and think of

their virtues till their faults fade away.

H. B. STOWE.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of each other.

ADDISON.

'Tis thus that on the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends. GAY. Inquiries from friends fret and gall more, and the memory of them is not so easily obliterated.

ARBUTHNOT.

It is a rare friendship that will tell a man

his faults.

HENRY WARD BEECHEer.

FRIENDSHIP.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

CICERO.

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

COLTON.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.

LA FONTAINE.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

LORD BOLINGBROKE.

"A friend is most a friend of whom the best remains to learn."

"True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come uninvited."

"That friendship only is indeed genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can nevertheless find happiness in being together."

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

R. W. EMERSON.