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29. Ask the labourer in the field, at the forge, or in the mine; ask the patient, delicate-fingered artisan, or the strong-armed, fiery-hearted worker in bronze, and in mar ble, and with the colours of light; and none of these, who are true workmen, will ever tell you, that they have found the law of heaven an unkind one- that in the sweat of their face they should eat bread, till they return to the ground; nor that they ever found it an unrewarded obedience, if, indeed, it was rendered faithfully to the command Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do — do it with thy might."

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RUSKIN.

30. Every considerate word we utter concerning those about us; every time we give them the benefit of a doubt in our judgment of their motive; every time we take occasion to couple with our demurrer from their position some saving clause of appreciation, we are habituating ourselves to that charity which "suffereth long and is kind."

Just as you now play a piece without the music and do not think what notes you strike, though once you picked them out by slow and patient toil, so if you begin of set purpose, you will learn the law of kindness in utterance so perfectly, that it will be second nature to you, and make more music in your life than all the songs the sweetest voice has ever sung. FRANCES E. WILLARD.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. BULWER.

Keep thyself simple, good, pure, kind, and affectionate. Make thyself all simplicity.

MARCUS AURELIUS.

31. Why does the moaning of the storm give me pleasure? Methinks because it puts to rout the trivialness of our fair-weather life, and gives it, at least, a tragic interest. The sound has the effect of a pleasing challenge to call forth our energy to resist the invaders of our life's territory. It is as musical and thrilling as the sound of an enemy's bugle. Our spirits revive like lichens in a storm. There

is something worth living for when we are resisted, threatened. . . . If it were not for physical cold how should we have discovered the warmth of the affections? I sometimes feel that I need to sit in a far-away cave through a three weeks' storm, cold and wet, to give a tone to my system. The spring has its windy March to usher it in, with many soaking rains reaching into April.

THOREAU.

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1. "Oh, keep me innocent; make others great! Those words were written by Queen Caroline Matilda of Denmark, with a diamond, on her window in the castle of Freudsborg; and, could we but live in that spirit, many a one might be saved from such bitter disappointment as makes men well-nigh wish that they had never been born. The jewel of innocence is more than a crown.

CANON FARRAR.

My children, beware of popularity; it is a delusion and a snare; it puffeth up the heart of man, and especially of woman; it blindeth the eyes to faults; it exalteth unduly the humble powers of the victim; it is apt to be capricious; and just as one gets to liking the taste of this intoxicating draught, it suddenly faileth, and one is left gasping like a fish out of water." LOUISA M. ALCOTT.

2. Yes, I believe in ideals. Some of us will owe our success, our worth to them. I would not have Joan of Arc's life-story changed in the least, and I hope historians will never become so critical as to erase her name from the books as they have William Tell's. But I believe this, too, that, among our friends, ideals which grow upon us are far sweeter and more helpful than those recommended by a first glance. I believe that a girl ought to pass quickly through a state of infatuation, blind adoration of a mortal, that she ought to allow some chance for faults, and some room for loving others too, then she will save herself from future disgust and make raillery against the friendships of girls cease. A. H. R.

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3. It comes far easier to scold our friend in an angry moment than to say how much we love, honor, and esteem him in a kindly mood. Wrath and bitterness speak themselves and go with their own force; love is shamefaced, looks shyly out of the window, lingers long at the door latch.

I hate is said loud and with all our force. I love is said with a hesitating voice and blushing cheek.

In an angry mood we do an injury to a loving heart with good, strong, free emphasis; but we stammer and hang back when our diviner nature tells us to confess and ask pardon. Even when our heart is broken with repentance, we haggle and linger long before we can

Throw away the worser part.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

Her air, her smile, her motions, told

Of womanly completeness;

A music as of household songs
Was in her voice of sweetness.

Not beautiful in curve and line,
But something more and better,

The secret charm eluding art,
Its spirit, not its letter;

An inborn grace that nothing lacked
Of culture or appliance,―

The warmth of genial courtesy,

The calm of self-reliance.

WHITTIER.

5. It's good to put a bother away over night. It all straightens out in the morning.

MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY.

The best thing to take people out of their own worries is to go to work and find out how other folks' worries are getting on. MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY.

It will all come out somehow. It has got to, you know. Things always do, they can't stay up in arms.

MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY.

Look on other lives beside your own; see what their troubles are, and how they are borne.

GEORGE ELIOT.

6. One cowslip, though it shows the yellow, is not fairly out, but will be by to-morrow. How they improve their time. Not a moment of sunshine is lost. One thing I may depend on, there has been no idling with the flowers. Nature loses not a moment, takes no vacation. They advance as steadily as a clock. These plants now protected by the water, are just peeping forth. I should not be surprised to find that they drew in their heads in a frosty night.

The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;

The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven

All's right with the world.

THOREAU.

ROBERT BROWNING.

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