198. Every young man is now a sower of seed on the field of life. The bright days of youth are the seed-time. Every thought of your intellect, every emotion of your heart, every word of your tongue, every principle you adopt, every act you perform, is a seed, whose good or evil fruit will prove the bliss or bane of your after life.- Wise.

199.

200.

If you cannot in the harvest

Garner up the richest sheaves,
Many a grain, both ripe and golden,
Will the careless reapers leave;
Go and glean among the briers
Growing rank against the wall,
For it may be that their shadow
Hides the heaviest wheat of all.

-Mrs. Gates.

Profaneness is a low, groveling vice. He who indulges it is no gentleman. I care not what his stamp may be in society,-I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts,-despite all his refinement, the light and habitual taking of God's name in vain betrays a coarse nature and a brutal will.-E. H. Chapin.

201. It is as important that we should have good books as that we should keep good company, as the one will make the other.-Anon.

202. From the stars of heaven and flowers of earth,
From the pageant of power and the voice of mirth,
From the mist of the morn on the mountain's brow,
From childhood's song and affection's vow,

From all save that o'er which soul bears sway,
There breathes but one record,-"Passing away."
-Miss Jewsbury.

203. There are two little armies

On the world's great battle-field;
Though unnoted oft by mortals,
To the eye of God revealed.
Though we hear no shouts of triumph,
Though we see no fearful fray,
Those little armies battle

For the Right or Wrong, each day;

The Right or Wrong each day.

-Mary F. Beavers.

204. The first and great object of education is to discipline the mind. Make it the first object to be able to fix and hold your attention upon your studies. He who can do this, has mastered many and great difficulties; and he who cannot do it, will in vain look for success in any department of study.-J. Todd.

205. I know not what course others may take; but, as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!-Pat rick Henry.

206.

Do not, friend, 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.—Mrs. Gates.

207. If we look only to material prosperity, to physi cal welfare, nothing is now more certain than that they are most powerfully promoted by everything which multiplies and diffuses the means of education. We live in an age in which cultivated mind is becoming, more and more, the controlling influence of affairs. Everett.

208. The smallest bark on Life's tumultuous ocean
Will leave a track behind for evermore;
The lightest wave of influence, set in motion,
Extends and widens to the eternal shore.
We should be wary, then, who go before
A myriad yet to be, and we should take

Our bearing carefully, where breakers roar,
And fearful tempests gather; one mistake [wake.
May wreck unnumbered barks that follow in our
-Mrs. Bolton.

209. The contemplation of beauty, in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.-E. P. Whipple.

210. Despise not little sins; for mountains big may stand

The piled heap made up of smallest grains of sand. Despise not little sins; the gallant ship may sink, Though only drop by drop the watery tide it drink. -R. C. Trench.

211. Gird yourself for the work of self-cultivation. Set a high price on your leisure moments. They are sands of precious gold. Properly expended, they will procure for you a stock of great thoughts,— thoughts that will fill, stir, and invigorate, and expand the soul.-D. Wise.

212. The moments are little and unseen things;
Light forms they have, and unseen wings;
They glide o'er our heads with the morning's beam,
And slip from our grasp with the day's last gleam;
They tick in our ears with the staid old clock;
They stand at our hearts and there wantonly knock;
They bid us not loiter, if Fame we would win;
They knock, and entreat us to gather them in.
-J. L. Eggleston.

213. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.-Dr. S. Johnson.

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215.

Press on surmount the rocky steeps,
Climb boldly o'er the torrent's arch;
He fails alone who feebly creeps;

He wins who dares the hero's march.
Be thou a hero! let thy might

Tramp on eternal snows its way,
And through the ebon walls of night,
Hew down a passage unto day.

-Park Benjamin.

The elevation of the mind ought to be the principal end of all our studies; which, if they do not in some measure effect, they will prove of very little service to us.-Burke.

216. The flowers below, the stars above,

In all their bloom and brightness given,
Are, like the attributes of love,

The poetry of earth and heaven.
Thus Nature's volume, read aright,
Attunes the soul to minstrelsy,
Tinging life's clouds with rosy light,
And all the world with poesy.

- Geo, P. Morris.