WORDS.

Good words make friends; bad words make SIR MATTHEW HALE.

enemies.

And half conceal the soul within."

"Thought is deeper than all speech;
Feeling deeper than all thought."

Give not thy tongue too great a liberty lest it take thee prisoner. QUARLES.

He that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Bible.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

GEORGE ELIOT.

But words are things and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions

think.

BYRON.

WORDS.

"If you've anything to say

True and needed, yea or nay,
Say it."

There is only one thing that is more terrible than to say a mean thing, and that is to do one. SIR WM. HARCOURT.

Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence.

THOMAS FULLER.

An unlucky word once escaped from us, cannot be brought back with a coach and six.

Chinese Proverb.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track - but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

H. W. BEECHER.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend; but words once spoke can never be recalled.

ROSCOMMON.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Bible.

Speak well of the absent whenever you have a suitable opportunity.

SIR MATTHEW HALE.

WORK.

Those who toil bravely are strongest;
The humble and poor become great,
And so from these brown-handed children
Shall grow mighty rulers of state.

M. H. KROUT.

"It is the cheery worker that succeeds. No one can do his best, or even do well, in the midst of worry or nagging. Wherefore if you work, work as cheerily as you can. If you do not work, do not put even a straw in the way of others."

Brave hearts, true hearts, no duty shirk;
Labor, "The Salt of Life is Work."

Harper's Weekly.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

THOMAS CARLYLE.

God never accepts a good inclination instead of a good action, where that action may be done; nay, so much the contrary, that if a good inclination be not seconded by a good action, the want of that action is made so much the more criminal and inexcusable.

SOUTH.

WORK.

He does the best work in this moping, croaking age, whose cheerful face gives the benediction of a happy heart, wherever a heavy step is treading along just behind him.

CHAS. S. ROBINSON.

All service is the same with God

With God, whose puppets, best and worst,

Are we there is no last nor first.

ROBERT BROWNING.

Labor is man's great function. He is nothing, he can be nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing without labor.

ORVILLE DEWEY.

Each morning sees some task begun,
Each evening sees it close;

Something attempted, something done,

Has earned a night's repose.

LONGFELLOW.

Work for some good, be it ever so slowly!
Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly.
Labor! all labor is noble and holy;

Let thy great deed be thy prayer to thy God.
F. S. OSGOOD.

"Do not then stand idly waiting
For some greater work to do;
Fortune is a lazy goddess,

She will never come to you.
Go and toil in any vineyard;
Do not fear to do or dare;
If you want a field of labor,
You can find it anywhere."

"Work sows the seed;

Even the rock may yield its flower ·
No lot so hard but human power,
Exerted to one end and aim,

May conquer fate, and capture fame!
Press on!

Free men freely work:

Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

WRONG-DOING.

MRS. BROWNING.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

R. W. EMErson.

Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own ST. BERNARD.

fault.