od.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.--Claudius.
Evil is wrought by want of thought, as well as want of heart.--Hood.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall.--Goldsmith.
So use present pleasures that thou spoilest not future ones.--Seneca.
A good manner springs from a good heart, and fine manners are the
outcome of unselfish kindness.--Margaret E. Sangster.
Reading and study are in no sense education, unless they may
contribute to this end of making us feel kindly towards all
creatures.--Ruskin.
An hour in every day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits would, if
properly employed, enable a person of ordinary capacity, to go far
toward mastering a science.--Samuel Smiles.
To live with a high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one
does, but what one tries to do, that makes the soul strong and fit for
noble career.--E. P. Tenney.
He who loses money loses much; he who loses a friend loses more, but
he who loses spirit loses all.--S. A. Nelson.
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if
not, you have infinite power against you.--Charles G. Gordon.
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.
To be and keep so is not the gift of a happy nature alone, but it is
strength and heroism.--Jules Michelet.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths.--Bailey.
Remember that everybody's business in the social system is to be
agreeable.--Dickens.
In the lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail.--Bulwer Lytton.
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but
never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.--Lowell.
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterward in our regards.
--Bovee.
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, is that fine sense
which men call Courtesy!--James T. Fields.
Make each goal when reached, a starting point for further quest.
--Browning.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be
as happy as kings.--Robert Louis Stevenson.
God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.--Beecher.
If you are acquainted with Happiness, introduce him to your neighbor.
--Phillips Brooks.
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, live well; how long
or short, permit to heaven.--Milton.
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has no
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