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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._ 462 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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