--_Syrus._

1478

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

--_Shakespeare._

1479

Four things come not back.
The spoken word,
The sped arrow,
The past life,
And the neglected opportunity.

1480

To-day is the opportunity for enjoyment and work; knowest thou where
thou wilt be to-morrow? Time flies swiftly away, and we with it.

--_Gleim._

1481

OPPRESSORS--EVERYWHERE.

There are sharks in the ocean, and wolves in the forest, and eagles in
the air, and tyrants on thrones, and tormentors in cottages.

--_Dr. J. Hamilton._

1482

All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.

--_Shakespeare._

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1483

Ambitious parents sometimes try to make lawyers, doctors, preachers and
statesmen out of boys nature meant for plowmen. How often do we find
misfits! There is nothing more pitiable than to see a man whose mind and
heart are completely wrapped up in one thing and yet condemned by
circumstances to do another.

1484

The cavalry captain Kurtzhagen was invited to dine with King Frederick
II. "From what noble house are you descended?" asked the king. "From
none whatever," replied Kurtzhagen. "My parents are only poor country
people, but I would not exchange them for any other parents in the
world." "Well said," replied the king. "Woe to him who is so mean as to
be ashamed of his parents."

1485

"Father," said a young man on his death-bed, "you have been very good to
me. You have given me a fine education, and you have placed me in a fine
social position; you have done everything for me in a worldly sense;
but, dear father, you never told me much of a hereafter. Now I am
dying."

1486

If any one toil for a parent, it is not fitting to bear remembrance of
the toil.

1487

The good conduct of the father and mother is the blessing of the
children.

1488

ALL FOOLS NOW.

A little Boston girl was encouraged by her parents to study so much that
her brain gave way, and she is now an idiot. This is a sad result, but
the parents must find some consolation in the thought that they have
made their daughter like themselves.

1489

It so falls out, that,
What we have we prize, not to the