LIFE. We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. H. W. BEECHER. Life is a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. HANNAH More. "Life is a sum, and it becomes us to do it properly as it can be done but once." It seems that life is all a void, On selfish thoughts alone employed; Unless their use be understood. JANE TAYLOR. Life alone can impart life, and though we should burst, we can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable. R. W. EMERSON. Not what we would, but what we must, R. H. STODDARD. Life like a dome of many colored glass, SHELLEY. My life is the living force I exert among men. STEWART. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives, best. Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the P. J. BAILEY. Every man's life is within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. ANTONINUS. Circles are prais'd not that abound Not in much time, but acting well. The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. GEORGE ELIOT. Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because he loves. H. W. BEECHER. We can make it a Christian duty, not only to love, but to be loving — not only to be true friends, but to show ourselves friendly. - H. B. STOWE. With all thy heart love God above, MAN. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. CARLYLE. Men are frequently like tea, their real strength and goodness is not drawn out till they have been for a short time in hot water. Cruikshank's Almanac. Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so. Ray's Proverbs. MAN. "Man a big animal who treads on things, - roars subdued thunder when dinner isn't ready, and feeds himself like an ox." The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. H. W. BEECHER. Men of public spirit differ rather in their circumstances than their virtues; and the man who does all he can in a low station, is more a hero than he who omits any worthy action he is able to accomplish in a great one. SIR R. STEELE. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that? Gie fools their silks and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that. Burns. How wonderful a being is man, when viewed in the light of his achievements. the J. G. HOLLAND. Man is God's creation. Everything else is nursery and nurse of man. H. W. BEECHER. "Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of modesty is want of sense.' "Modesty is the peculiar characteristic of a virtuous woman, and is the safeguard of all virtue." Modesty is to Merit as Shades to Figures in a Picture, giving it Strength and Beauty. LA BRUYÈRE. But Mere Bashfulness without Merit is awkward; and Merit without Modesty insolent. Modest Merit has a double claim to acceptance. HUGHES. MOTHERS. The child taketh the most of his nature from the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination, which are agreeable to the conditions of their mothers. EDMUND SPENSER. Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death was mindful of his mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought, the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight to Heaven. H. W. LONGFELLOW. |