worth,
While we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then, we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us,
Whilst it was ours.

--_Shakespeare._

Note: Applicable to one's parents.

1490

PARTING.

We twain have met like the ships upon the sea,
Who hold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet;
One little hour! and then, away they speed
On lonely paths, through mists, and cloud, and foam,
To meet no more.

--_A. Smith._

1491

PARTING FROM FRIENDS.

When forc'd to part from those we love,
Though sure to meet to-morrow;
We yet a kind of anguish prove,
And feel a touch of sorrow.
But oh! what words can paint the fears
When from those friends we sever,
Perhaps to part for months--for years--
Perhaps to part for ever.

1492

Control your passion or it will control you.

--_Horace._

1493

Nothing overcomes passion sooner than silence.

--_French._

1494

Remember, three things come not back;
The arrow sent upon its track--
It will not swerve, it will not stay
Its speed; it flies to wound or slay;
The spoken word, so soon forgot
By thee, but it has perished not;
In other hearts 'tis living still,
And doing work for good or ill;
And the lost opportunity
That cometh back no more to thee.
In vain thou weep'st, in vain dost yearn,
These three will never more return.

1495

Let by-gones be by-gones; let the past be forgotten.

--_Dr. Webster._

1496

Every one utters the word "past" with more emotion than "future."

--_Richter._

1497

The beaten path is the safe one.

--_From the Latin._

1498

A pearl is often hidden in an ugly shell.

--_Chinese._

1499

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

--_Cervantes._

1500

HOW TO WAKE THE PEOPLE.

An old peasant in a German village had to leave his children alone in
the house for the day. "If a thief comes," he said