Let me rest in peace. Amen.
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[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
gathered in this section.]
He who works for sweetness and light works to make reason and the will
of God prevail.--Matthew Arnold.
Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration
for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich
and beautify our life.--Phillips Brooks.
Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a
faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.--Barrow.
Good manners are part of good morals.--Whately.
After all, the kind of world one carries about within one's self is
the important thing, and the world outside takes all its grace, color
and value from that.--Lowell.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things the supreme
excellence is simplicity.--Longfellow.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.--Bovee.
Never mind if you cannot do all things just as well as you would like
to. It is only necessary to do things just as well as you can.
--Patrick Flynn.
Not so much beautiful features as a beautiful soul can make a
beautiful face.--Margaret E. Sangster.
There is a marvelous power in a well-defined individuality.--Joe
Mitchell Chapple.
Resolution always gives us courage.--A. E. Winship.
Of all fruitless errands, sending a tear to look after a day that has
gone is the most fruitless.--Dickens.
You can never be wise unless you love reading.--Johnson.
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress
and all moral development.--Confucius.
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.--Ruskin.
It is not a lucky word, this same impossible; no good comes to those
who have it so often in their mouth.--Carlyle.
I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.--Shakespeare.
Youth, all possibilities are in its hands.--Longfellow.
Thought is deeper than all speech.--Cranch.
People influence us who have no business to do it, simply because we
have neglected to train ourselves to attend to our own affairs.
--A. E. Winship.
As the heart, so is the life. The within is ceaselessly becoming the
without.--James Allen.
I have faith in the people.--Abraham Lincoln.
Of all the propensities which teach mankind to torment themselves,
that of causeless fear is the most irritating, busy, painful and
pitiable.--W
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