Be thankful if your own soul has been spared perplexity, and judge not those to whom a harder lot has been given. GEORGE ELIOT. By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own. ZENO. "Fliction is kind of curus; it don't hurt nothin', at the first go-off, to what it does, come to set down and chaw on't." ROSE TERRY COOKE. I sometimes hold it half a sin TENNYSON. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity? Half the sting of poverty is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort, and not for the comments of one's neighbors. MISS MULOCK. I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon. Rumor is a pipe HARE. Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; The still-discordant wavering multitude Can play upon it. SHAKESPEARE. Silence is vocal if we listen well. J. G. HOLLAND. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!" O. W. HOLMES. Make my mortal dreams come true Let me be the thing I meant ! WHITTIER. Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. To take up our life as it is, and do the best we can to make it great and good, best to make it fit to our give back one day to the Lord who gave it, that is to live. MRS. LEITH ADAMS. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. SHAKESPEARE. Hope in our souls is king. LONGFELLOW. A good book, whether a novel or not, is one that leaves you farther on than when you took it up. If, when you drop it, it drops you down in the same old spot, with no finer outlook, no cleared vision, no stimulated desires for that which is better and higher, it is in no sense a good book. ANNA WARNER. The healing of his seamless dress Is by our beds of pain; We touch him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again. WHITTIER. There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. EMERSON. Enough and too much of the sect and the name, What matters our label, so truth be our aim? The creed may be wrong, but the life may be true, And hearts beat the same under drab coats or blue. WHITTIER. I have given ye an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. The glory is not in the task, but in the doing it for him. JEAN INGELOW. The devil tempts us not 'tis we tempt him, Beckoning his skill with opportunity. GEORGE ELIOT. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. O. W. HOLmes. "Marryin' a man ain't like settin' alongside of him nights and hearin' him talk pretty; that's the fust prayer. There's lots and lots of meetin' after that." ROSE TERRY COOKE. The smile that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Speak evil of no man. By great sorrows the human heart is protected against small ones by the waterfall against the rain. RICHTER. God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, The good can well afford to wait. WHITTIER. |