SUCCESS.

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What is the secret of Success?" asked the Sphinx.

Push, said the button.

Take pains, said the window.
Never be led, said the pencil.

Always keep cool, said the ice.
Be up-to-date, said the calendar.
Do business on tick, said the clock.
Never lose your head, said the barrel.
Do a driving business, said the hammer.
Aspire to greater things, said the nutmeg.
Never do anything offhand, said the glove.
Be sharp in all your dealings, said the knife.
Trust to your stars for success, said the night.
Find a good thing and stick to it, said the glue
Spend much time in reflection, said the mirror.
Strive to make a good impression, said the seal.
Turn all things to your advantage, said the lathe.
Make much of small things, said the microscope.
Get a good pull with the ring, said the door-bell.
Never take sides, but be round when you're wanted,
said the bell.

Make the most of your good points, said the compass. -The Segnogram.

MISCELLANEOUS.

No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life who is not doing a thousand-fold more for other men than he is trying to do even for himself; for in the economy of God's providence every right and well-organized business is a beneficence and not a selfishness; and not the less so because the merchant thinks mostly of his own profit.-BEECHER.

In keeping track of others and their faults it's very, very important that you shouldn't lose sight of your own. Authority swells up some fellows so they can't see their corns; but a wise man tries to cure his own while remembering not to tread on his neighbor's.

-GEORGE HORACE LORIMER.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.-MILTON.

If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.-FArrar.

He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance, falls; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow greater, becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up.-AMIEL.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.-LOCKE.

The mother state has taught us, her children, to place principle above expediency, courage above time, service and patriotism above party, and in the cause of right and justice not to flinch no matter what the majority, or however overbearing its demands.-WILLIAM E. Russell.

It is a beautiful provision in the mental and moral arrangement of our nature, that that which is performed as a duty, may, by frequent repetition, become a habit; and the habit of stern virtue, so repulsive to others, may hang around our neck like a wreath of flowers.

-PAXTON HOOD.

"The people's voice, the voice of God we call,
And what are proverbs but the public voice?
Coined first and common made by common choice,
Then sure they must have weight and truth withal.”

Whatever we may say against such collections which present authors in a disjointed form they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete

cultivation of the mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant quotations.-GOETHE.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten pathway to his den.-EMERSON.

Be substantially great in thyself; and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee as they are in the lights of heaven.

-THOMAS BROWNE.

It is the old lesson-a worthy purpose, patient energy for its accomplishment, a resoluteness undaunted by difficulties, and then success.-W. M. PUNSHON.

Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule.-DHAMMAPADA. Call to mind the heavier sufferings of others that thou mayest the more easily bear the very little thou sufferest. -THOMAS À KEMPIS.

Indolence too often vanquishes the best, and turns to naught the noblest, firmest resolution.-FIRDUSI.

If thou covet thy heritage, acquire thy father's knowledge; for his wealth thou mayest squander in ten days. -SA'DI.

When one leaves this world without a single regret, one passes straight to paradise.-MURASAKI SHIKIB. The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. -T. CHALMERS.

"It is with narrow-souled people as with narrownecked bottles-the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out."

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.-Experience.

"If it is folly to think of the grapes beyond our reach, it is still greater folly not to take all we can reach."

"If women knew themselves as well as they know men, and if men knew women as well as they know themselves things would be very much as they are."

More dear in the sight of God and his angels than any other conquest is the conquest of self, which each man, with the help of heaven, can secure for himself. -DEAN STANLEY.

There is no bounty to be show'd to such
As have no real goodness: bounty is

A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act
Can take effect on them that have no power
Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

-BEN JOHNSON.

When you're through sizing up the other fellow, it's a good thing to step back from yourself and see how you look. Then add fifty per cent. to your estimate of your neighbor for virtues that you can't see, and deduct fifty per cent. from yourself for faults that you've missed