INDUSTRY.

Industry hath annexed thereto the finest fruits and the richest rewards.

BARROW.

Round swings the hammer of industry,
Quickly the sharp chisel rings,

And the heart of the toiler has throbbings

That stir not the bosom of kings, He the true ruler and conqueror,

He the true king of his race,

Who nerveth his arm for life's combat,
And looks the whole world in the face.
DR. F. MCCARTHY.

In every rank, or great or small
'Tis industry supports us all.

GAY.

Never the ocean wave falters in flowing;
Never the little seed stops in its growing;
More and more richly the rose heart keeps

glowing,

Till from the nourishing stem it is riven.

F. S. OSGOOD.

A man who gives his children habits of industry, provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

WHATELY.

INFLUENCE.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with right principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.

DANIEL WEBSTER.

Our many deeds, the thoughts that we have thought,

They go out from us thronging every hour;
And in them each is folded up a power

That on the earth doth move them to and

fro D;

And mighty are the marvels they have wrought In hearts we know not and may never know.

"There is no end to the sky, And the stars are everywhere, And time is eternity,

And the here is over there;

For the common deeds of the common day

Are ringing bells in the far away."

INFLUENCE.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.

SIR H. DAVY.

Air and manner are more expressive than words.

S. RICHARDSON. You cannot afford to do anything but what is good. You are on dress parade all the time.

BOB BURDETTE.

A man's strength in this life is often greater from some single word, remembered and cherished, than in arms or armor.

H. W. BEECHER.

No action, whether foul or fair,
Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere
A record written by fingers ghostly,
As a blessing or a curse; but mostly,
In the greater weakness or greater strength
Of the acts which follow it, till at length,
The wrongs of ages are redressed,

And the justice of God made manifest.

H. W. LONGFELLOW.

INFLUENCE.

As ships meet at sea, a moment together when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and, if he needs, giving him supplies.

H. W. BEECHER.

Every man however humble his station, or feeble his power, exercises some influence on those who are about him, for good or for evil. A. SEDGWICK.

"The seed we sow within the soil to-day,

The morrow's sun will ripen into grain: The deeds we do within this mortal clay Are steps by which the summit we may gain To-morrow."

Our echoes roll from soul to soul,

And grow forever and forever.

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TENNYSON.

Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the everlasting, ever-working universe it is a seed grain that cannot die : unnoticed to-day, it will be found flourishing as a banyan grove, perhaps, alas, as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. CARLYLE.

INFLUENCE.

O'er wayward childhood wouldst thou hold firm rule,

And sun thee in the light of happy faces;

Love, Hope and Patience, these must be thy

graces,

And in thine own heart let them first keep school. COLERIDGE.

Sow love and taste its fruitage pure,
Sow peace and reap its harvest bright,
Sow sunshine on the rock and moor,

And find a harvest-home of light.

HORATIUS BONAR.

Not one sentence that passes these lips of ours but must be an invisibly prolonged influence, not dying away into silence, but living away into the words and deeds of others.

F. R. HAVERGAL.

"The influence of woman more or less affects, for good or for evil, the entire destinies of mankind."

"Though the head may rule, it is the heart that influences."