t what's resisted."

He opened many eyes when he wrote the following:

"O, wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
And even Devotion!"

164

We all, according as our business prospers or fails, are elated or cast
down.

165

I'll give money to any well deserving friend, but in the matter of
business, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.

--_Shakespeare._

166

Sentiment is not now recognized in business affairs.

167

To business that we love, we rise betime,
And go to it with delight.

--_Shakespeare._

168

_Keep to Your Calling_--Bishop Grostest, of Lincoln, told his brother,
who asked him to make him a great man: "Brother," said he, "if your
plough is broken, I'll pay the mending of it; or if an ox is dead, I'll
pay for another; but a ploughman I found you, and a ploughman I'll leave
you."

169

BUSYBODIES.

Who, knowing nothing, claim to know it all.
What each intends, or will intend, they know.
What in the queen's ear the king said, they know.
What never was, or is--they know it, though!

--_Plautus._

170

The would-be buyer, alas! so often depreciates.

171

The road to "bye and bye" leads to the town of never.

--_Spanish._

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172

CALAMITY.

Do not insult calamity:
It is a barb'rous grossness, to lay on
The weight of scorn, where heavy misery
Too much already weighs men's fortunes down.

--_Shakespeare._

173

I can't, does nothing.
I'll try, effects miracles.
I will, accomplishes everything.

--_Unknown._

174

Among the ancient warriors it was a custom, when any one did a
meritorious action, to say: "That will be a feather in his cap."

175

Whom the cap fits, let him wear it.

--_Latin._

176

Capacity without education is deplorable.

--_Saadi._

177

As to cards and dice, I think the safest and best wa