Recollect how many a time Wave your hand with joy amain, "Perseverance" be your song, If you fail, wipe off the stain, Twilight. Oh, Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth Dear art thou to the lover, thou sweet light, Hon. Mrs. Norton. I love thee, Twilight! As thy shadows roll, Still as the hour-enchanting as the scene. Montgomery. Twins. Two dew-drops, sent down by heaven to refresh the earth, and give back their image in their transparent purity. Tyranny. The frost which congeals the stream of social progress.— Servility unmasked. Unbelief. If revelation be, as some suppose, An empty fiction, whence delusion flows, But charms me waking, and delights my dreams; The fond delusion, from all mischief free, Dr. Booker. When first Religion came to bless the land, Insulted faith then leaves the doubtful mind, Rev. George Crabbe. The man who believes not in God should be avoided with greater precaution than the most malignant disease: his presence is far more dangerous than the vilest leprosy, and his utterance is more to be dreaded than the aspic's poison. He is one of Satan's courtiers.-J. Hill. Understanding. Most miserable creature under sky The only comfort in calamity; She arms the breast with constant patience, Unity. Spenser. Thine is the peace-branch, thine the pure command, Usefulness. Kinglake. It is a great satisfaction, at the close of life, to be able to look back on the years that are past, and to feel that you have lived, not for yourself alone, but that you have been useful to others. You may be assured, also, that the same feeling is a source of comfort and happiness at any period of life. Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character, and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.-Sir B. Brodie. What are riches? But a bubble. What is beauty? But a flower. What are honours? Empty spoil. What is language? Empty breath. - Vanity is like the flying-fish, which can use its wings only as long as they are wet; and envy is the natural result of a disparity which gives every stronger wing the advantage. - Vain was the man, and false as vain, Who said "Were he ordain'd to run His long career of life again, He would do all that he had done."-Moore. Vice. Vice looks like other objects black by night. Village Churchyard. How sweet and solemn, all alone, O'er intervening flowers to move! To meditate, in Christian love, Virtue. It is a libel on the name of God-- Cannot conceive, or his hand execute Man may wander in the paths of vice, Will linger. 'Tis that favour'd, cherish'd spot, Lockman, the sage, being asked what caused him to be virtuous, answered, "The sight of vice." Sweet day! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dews shall weep thy fall to-night; Sweet rose whose hue, angry and brave, Thy root is ever in its grave; And thou must die. |