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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.-EMERSON. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. -SHAKESPEARE.

Through every clause and part of speech of a right book, I meet the eyes of the most determined of men. -EMERSON.

Through labor to rest, through combat to victory. -THOMAS À KEMPIS. Thy life is all that thou hast to confront eternity with. -CARLYLE.

Time is the old justice that examines all offenders. -SHAKESPEARE.

Time-rich gift of God! A year of time.-WHITTIER. Time-that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities.-COLTON.

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

-SHAKESPEARE.

To acquire a few tongues, says a French writer, is the task of a few years; but to be eloquent in one is the labor of a life.-COLTON.

To Adam, Paradise was home; to the good among his descendants, home is Paradise.-HARE.

To be fossilized is to be stagnant, unprogressive, dead, frozen into a solid. It is only liquid currents of thought that move man and the world.-WENDELL PHILLIPS. "To be guilty of the same fault twice is to compound the offence."

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. -BISHOP TAYLOR.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage enough and to spare.-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants.-LOWELL.

To give happiness is to deserve happiness.-ROUSSEAU. To identify one's self with those in bonds is the very core of the Christian life.-NEWELL D. HILLIS.

To know how to be ready, we must be able to finish. -AMIEL.

To know how to wait is the great secret of success. -DE MAISTRE.

"To know where you can find anything, that in short is the largest part of learning."

"To live in hearts we leave behind

Is not to die."

To love, and to be beloved, is the greatest happiness of existence.-SIDNEY SMITH.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.-WASHINGTON.

"To preserve credit, do not use it much."

To read without reflection is like eating without digesting.-BURKE.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.-AMIEL. To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. -EDWARDS.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

-YOUNG.

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Trifles make perfection; but perfection is no trifle.

-MICHAEL ANGELO.

-HANNAH MOORE.

Trifles make the sum of human things.

'True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.”

True love can no more be diminished by showers of evil than flowers are marred by timely rains.

-SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is the less noise it makes.-HALIFAX.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.-LAURENCE STERNE.

Trust not too much to an enchanting face.

Trust the Lord and keep your powder dry.

-VIRGIL.

-CROMWELL.

Truth alone can stand strict and stern investigation, and rejoices to come to the light.-MOSES HARVEY. Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.-EMERSON. Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.-MILTON.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. -CHAUCER. "Unto what end is love if not to strengthen our ideals.” Vacillation is the prominent feature of weakness of character.-VOLTAIRE.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.-FRANKLIN.

Virtue alone raises us above fears and chances.

-SENECA.

Virtue will catch as well as vice, by contact.-Burke.

Want of manliness is now the great danger among all people of all nations.-VINCENT.

We are all poets when we read a poem well.

-CARLYLE.

We are never like angels till our passions die.

-DECKER.

We are often able because we think we are able.

-J. HAWES.

We can sing away our cares easier than we can reason them away.-BEECHER.

We cannot answer for our courage when we have never been in danger.-LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

"We cannot help anybody farther up than we stand ourselves."

We know what we are, but not what we may be. -SHAKESPEARE.

We lose time by remorse.-F. W. ROBERTSON. We must tramp upon our feelings when principle is at stake.-S. J. WILSON.

We must not yield to difficulties, but strive the harder to overcome them.-ROBERT E. LEE.

We pass for what we are.-EMERSON.

We seldom speak of the virtue we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.-LESSING.

We should, as far as is possible, make ourselves immortal and strive to live by that part of ourselves which is most excellent.-ARISTOTLE.

"Weak characters go around difficulties; strong ones, through them."

Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.-O. S. MARDEN.

What a man does, that he has, what has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might.-EMERSON.

What distinguishes a man is not found in his social rank, his occupation, his dress or his fortune, but solely in himself. WAGNER, The Simple Life.

What everybody can do nobody wants to do.

-CHARLES AUSTIN BATES.

What is a gentleman? I'll tell you: a gentleman is one who keeps his promises made to those who cannot enforce them.-HUBBARD.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.-EMERSON.

What is luxury? What is comfort for one person is luxury for another. What was luxury yesterday is comfort today.-LYMAN ABBOTT.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.-ADDISON.

What the man is, determines largely what his intellect thinks about God.-NEWELL D. HILLIS.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.-CONFUCIUS.

What thou thoughtest to perpetrate, that thou shalt suffer in thy own person.-HOMER.

Whatever thou art, be all there.—GOETHE.

Whatever we have dared to think, that dare we also say.-WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

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