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HER face betokened all things dear and good,
The light of somewhat yet to come was there
Asleep, and waiting for the opening day,

When childish thoughts, like flowers, would drift away.
Jean Ingelow.

He was still in that happy season when one cannot understand how, in the woman one loves, in the writer one honors, there should be anything defective. The feeling they excite in us is so entire . . . that we cannot help attributing the same perfect harmony to the objects themselves.

Goethe.

June 22.

MORE and more, as the college woman interprets her privileges as opportunities and tries to be of use, she will realize that her usefulness depends upon herself, not upon what she has read in books and learned by heart, but upon what she is, upon her character, upon her personality.

To love her was a liberal education.

Dean Hodges.

Sir Richard Steele.

WE hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A TRUISM misapplied is the worst of sophisms.

Thomas Jefferson.

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I'SAY that man was made to grow, not stop;
That help he needed once, and needs no more,
Having grown but an inch by, is withdrawn:
For he hath new needs, and new helps to these.
This imports solely, man should mount on each
New height in view; the help whereby he mounts,
The ladder-rung his foot hath left, may fall,
Since all things suffer change save God the Truth.
Robert Browning.

THERE are instincts for all the crises of life.

Victor Hugo.

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