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" "When then?" "Never." "Never!" said the fool, "and what provision hast thou made for thy entertainment there, whither thou goest?" "None at all." "No!" said the fool, "none at all! Here then, take my staff; for with all my folly, I am not guilty of any such folly as this." 443 The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command. --_Cicero._ 444 When a man dies, they who survive him, ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man, asks what good deeds he has sent before him. 445 Happy is, or ought to be, the man who owes nothing. 446 If you would avoid paying debts, avoid incurring them. 447 But wealth and power have no immortal day, For all things ripen only to decay. 448 DECISION. Lose this day loitering,--'t will be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory; The indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute, What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated,-- Begin, And then the work Will be completed. --_J. W. Von Goethe._ 449 Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath received it disclose it. 450 NOBLE DEEDS. He built a house, time laid it in the dust; He wrote a book, its title now forgot; He ruled a city, but his name is not On any tablet graven, or where rust Can gather from disuse, or marble bust. He took a child from out a wretched cot, Who on the state dishonor might have brought, And reared him to the Christian's hope and trust. The boy to manhood grown, became a light To many souls, preached for human need The wondrous love of the Omnipotent. The work has multiplied like stars at night When darkness deepens; every noble deed Lasts longer, than a granite monument. --_Sarah H. Bolton._ 451 "He wishes well" is worthless, unless the deed go with it. --_Plautus._ 452 _Deformed._--Mock not at those who are misshapen
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