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MEMORY GEMS

"Step by step we mount the ladder,"
Doth the Turkish proverb read;

And a double truth it teaches
To the one who stops to heed.

Fear

you not, nor faint, nor falter
As life's steps you seek to scale;
He who constant climbs, though slowly,
Cannot of his purpose fail.

Boys' Brigade Courier.

He who does faithfully today will be wanted to-morrow

There is very little trouble

That happens us today.

It's the sorrow of to-morrow
That drives our joys away.

We sometimes sit and wonder
And stew and fume and fret
For fear something may happen,
But it hasn't happened yet.

PROVERB.

It's what thee'll spend, my son, not what thee'll make, that will decide whether thee's to be rich or not.

Fortunately what God expects of us is not the best,

but our best.

ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS.

MEMORY GEMS

On, bravely, through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

[From Cymbeline.]

Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,

His steeds to water at those springs
On chalic'd flowers that lies;
And winking Mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes:
With everything that pretty is,
My lady sweet, arise!

Arise, Arise!

SHAKESPEARE.

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Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming.

Better to feel a love within

Than be lovely to the sight!

Better a homely tenderness
Than beauty's wild delight!

MACDONALD.

Among the pitfalls in our way,
The best of us walk blindly;
So, man, be wary, watch and pray,
And judge your brother kindly.
ALICE CARY.

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MEMORY GEMS

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing.

LILIAN WHITING.

To make a quarrel needs, indeed, two; but to make peace needs only one.

IVAN PANIN.

When you are an anvil, hold you still.
When you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Sixteenth Century Sayings.

Silence is a great peacemaker.

LONGFELLOW.

A prudent man is like a pin; his head prevents him from going too far.

DOUGLAS JERROLD.

Whosoever acquires knowledge and does not practise it resembles him who ploughs his land and leaves it

unsown.

SADI.

He that spares when he is young may spend when he is old.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead,

DAVY CROCKETT.

MEMORY GEMS

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No man was ever known to get a cent's worth without paying in some form or other the cent.

Beware of borrowing; it bringeth care by night and disgrace by day.

Be true if you would be believed.

The language denotes the man.

HINDOO.

An honest countenance is the best passport.

God's best gift to us is that he gives not things, but opportunities.

ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS.

MEMORY GEMS

SIXTH GRADE

LIFE is a leaf of paper white

Whereon each one of us may write
His word or two; and then comes night.

Though thou have time

But for a line, be that sublime;

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

JAMES RUSSELL Lowell.

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down;
She were not Fortune if she did not frown.

ORREBY.

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.

BEN JONSON.

To be "

STUART.

In the grammar of life the great verbs are

and "To do."