by nature. He that
despiseth them despiseth God that made them.
--_Dr. Fuller._
453
Away with delay! it always injures those that are prepared.
--_Lucan._
454
Do not delay: the golden moments fly!
--_Longfellow._
455
True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits
itself most significantly in little things.
456
Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so.
--_Rochefoucauld._
457
Remember that your dependents have seldom a full power of replying to
you; and let the recollection of that make you especially considerate in
your dealings with them.
--_Sir Arthur Helps._
458
Honorable descent is in all nations greatly esteemed; besides, it is to
be expected that the children of men of worth will be like their
fathers.
--_Aristotle._
459
When any great design thou dost intend,
Think on the means, the manner, and the end.
--_Sir J. Denham._
460
The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.
--_Dr. Johnson._
461
DESTINY.
Ships that pass at night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
--_Longfellow._
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INSCRIPTION FOR A SUN-DIAL.
The shadow by my finger cast
Divides the future from the past:
Before it sleeps the unborn hour
In darkness, and beyond thy power:
Behind its unreturning line,
The vanished hour, no longer thine:
One hour alone is in thy hands--
The Now on which the shadow stands.
--_Henry Van Dyke._
463
RISE ABOVE YOUR DIFFICULTIES.
Not till after the death of a member of Parliament, a prominent county
magistrate, the owner of large estates, and an active, public-spirited
man in all local and national matters, was it known by those who had not
seen him, that it was but the misshapen block of a man t
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