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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,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
-WILLIAM CONGREVE.

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.

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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.

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