Do without fail what you determine to do. -ROTHSCHILD. Doing is the greatest thing. For if resolutely people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it. -RUSKIN. Doing right never hurt anybody; doing wrong always does.-GARFIELD. "Don't cry over spilt milk; up and catch the cow." Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.-O.S. MARDEN. Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action. -CARLYLE. Drive thy business; let not that drive thee. Sloth makes all things difficult; industry, all easy.-FRANKLIN. Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. -EMERSON. Eat at your own as you would eat at the table of the king.-CONFUCIUS. Economy comes too late when coffers are empty. -SENECA. Economy is, of itself, a great revenue.-CICERO. Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. -HORACE MANN. Education and freedom are the only sources of true greatness and true happiness among the people. -JOHN BRIGHT. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.-EDWARD EVERETT. Education is an ornament to the fortunate, a haven of refuge to the unfortunate.-DEMOCRITUS. Education is not a luxury but a necessity, without which a nation cannot progress in any way.-MOSELY. Education is the chief defense of nations.-BURKE. Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. -WENDELL PHILLIPS. Education of the will is the object of our existence. -EMERSON. Education ought not to cease when we leave school; but if well begun there, will continue through life. -SIR JOHN LUBBOCK. Eloquence is the transference of thought and emotion from one heart to another, no matter how it is done. -GOUGH. Eloquence is truth in earnest.-THEO. L. CUYLER. Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.-GOETHE. Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.-EMERSON. Evermore man receives what he first gives to nature and society and God.-NEWELL D. HILLIS. Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.-WASHINGTON. Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.-JOHN RUSKIN. Every life has its actual blanks which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless forever. -JULIA WARD HOWE. Every man has a weak side. Every wise man knows where it is, and will be sure to keep a double guard. -MASON. Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. -CHANNING. Every man stamps his own value upon himself, and we are great or little according to our own will. -SAMUEL SMILES. Every noble activity makes room for itself.-EMERSON. Every noble crown is, and forever on earth will be, a crown of thorns.-CARLYLE. Every right action and true thought sets the seal of its beauty on the person and the face.-RUSKIN. "Every time we conquer ourselves we are helping others to conquer themselves." Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.-JEFFERSON. Everyone wishes to live long, but no one would be old.-SWIFT. Everything comes if a man will only wait. -BEACONSFIELD. "Everything comes to the man who waits,' but not while he waits." Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are.—GOETHE. Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.-PHILLIPS BROOKS. Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.-NEWELL D. HILLIS. Failures are but the pillars of success.-Welsh Proverb. Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.-A. A. HODGE. Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches.-LOCKE. "Fate gives us parents; choice gives us friends." Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life. -Bible. "Find a way or make one." Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.-BEECHER. Find the right point at starting; strike straight; begin well; everything depends on it.—AMIEL. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.-BURKE. Fly from the crowd, and be to virtue true. Content with what thou hast, tho' it be small.-CHAUCER. For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, For man to assist man is to be a god; this is the path to eternal glory.-PLINY, the Elder. For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my time than wear a diadem. -GEORGE BERKELEY. An unfortunate and an imprudent man are synonymous terms.-RICHELIEU. And he who waits to have his task marked out Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled. --LOWELL. "And many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest timbered oak." And yet, when a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to me like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold.-HOLMES. Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to take care of himself. American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.-W. J. BRYAN. Any fool can learn from experience, but it takes a wise man to learn from the experience of others. -BISHOP BASHFORD. Any man may commit a mistake, but none but a fool will continue in it.-CICERO. A beautiful Architecture is a handmaid of devotion. church is a sermon in stone and its spire a finger pointing to heaven.-SCHOFF. As a matter of fact, a man's first duty is to mind his own business.-GEORGE HORACE LORIMER. As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.-GREVILLE. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time.-MASON. As love will often make a wise man act like a fool, so will interest often make a fool act like a wise man. |