Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight,

For 'tis their nature to.

- WATTS.

This world is not so bad a world
As some would like to make it ;
Though whether good or whether bad,
Depends on how we take it.

Little by little, sure and slow,

We fashion our future bliss or woe,

As the present passes away.

- BECK.

Our feet are climbing the stairway bright,
Up to the region of endless light,
Or gliding downward into the night;
Little by little, and day by day.

True worth is in being, not seeming,
In doing each day that goes by
Some little good, not in dreaming
Of great things to do by and by.

For whatever men say in blindness
And in spite of the fancies of youth,
There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth.

- ALICE CARY.

There is no one else who has the power to be so much your friend or so much your enemy as yourself.

Help the weak if you are strong,
Love the old if you are young,
Own a fault if you are wrong,

If you are angry hold your tongue.

Do all the good you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can, in every place you can.

That is a treacherous friend against whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. -BOVEe.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Mean men admire wealth; great men, glory.

Vain glory blossoms, but never bears.

Right sometimes sleeps, but never dies.

Sharp wits, like sharp knives, often cut their owners' fingers. — ARROWSMITH.

Many talk like philosophers, and live like fools.

What a man desires, he easily believes.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams,
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!

Book of beginnings, story without end,

Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend.

-SALUTAMUS.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

HOLMES.

Attempt the end and never stand in doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one, no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. - JOHNSON.

Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part; there all the honor lies.

Learn the luxury of doing good. — GOLDSMITH.

What is it to be a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner. - THACKERAY.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. - BURKE.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow.

It is much easier to be critical than correct.

Profaneness is a low, grovelling vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. I care not what his stamp may be in society, I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts, -despite all his refinement, the light and habitual taking of God's name in vain betrays a coarse nature and a brutal will. — CHAPIN.

This is the best world that we live in,

To lend, or to spend, or to give in;

But to beg, or to borrow, or to get one's own,
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.

Sow an act, and you reap a habit;

Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Each man's homestead is his golden milestone,

Is the central point from which he measures every distance,

Through the gateways of the world around him.

It is not what we earn, but what we save, that makes us rich. It is not what we eat, but what we digest, that makes us strong. It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us useful.

A pebble in the streamlet scant

Has turned the course of many a river;

A dewdrop on the infant plant

Has warped the giant oak forever.

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It takes two to tell a lie, one to speak, and another to listen.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;

Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. -LONgfellow.

If wisdom's ways you'd wisely seek,
Five things observe with care:

Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. —SHAKESPEARE.

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Tact is the life of the five senses. eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch. Talent is power, tact is skill; talent is weight, tact is momentum; talent knows what to do, tact how to do it; talent is wealth, tact ready money. - LONDON ATLAS.

What a world of gossip would be prevented if it was only remembered that a person who tells you of the faults of others intends to tell others of your faults.