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the heart; to procure a hundred flowers to adorn a knot, than one grace to beautify the soul.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.-Chesterfield.

The depraved and sinful heart does not of itself grow better, but goes on from bad to worse; but the heart renewed by divine grace, grows steadily in the divine likeness; its path is that of the just, that shineth more and more to the perfect day.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.-Bul

wer.

Mind is the partial side of man; the heart is everything.-Rivarol.

The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.-Confucius.

Each heart is a world.-You find all within yourself that you find without.-To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.-Lavater.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.-H. W. Beecher.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylum for orphans!-It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.-Theodore Parker.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.-Rousseau.

The nice, calm, cold thought, which in women shapes itself so rapidly that they hardly know it as thought, should always travel to the lips by way of the heart.- -It does so in those women whom all love and admire.—0. W. Holmes.

The human heart is like the millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds the wheat into flour.-If you put no wheat in, it still grinds on, but then it is itself it grinds and slowly wears away.-Luther.

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly.-Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to him.-Richter.

The hardest trial of the heart is, whether it can bear a rival's failure without triumph. -Aikin.

The heart of man is a short word, a small substance, scarce enough to give a kite a

meal, yet great in capacity; yea, so indefinite in desire that the round globe of the world cannot fill the three corners of it.When it desires more and cries, "Give, give," I will set it over to the infinite good, where the more it hath, it may desire more, and see more to be desired.—Bp. Hall.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh.-Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.-Theodore Parker.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.Sir P. Sidney.

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.-Mad. Necker.

You may as soon fill a bag with wisdom, a chest with virtue, or a circle with a triaugle, as the heart of man with anything here below.-A man may have enough of the world to sink him, but he can never have enough to satisfy him.-T. Brooks.

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.-C. Simmons.

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.-Calderon.

Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their understandings.

The way to the heart is through the senses; please the eyes and ears, and the work is half done.-Chesterfield.

Something the heart must have to cherish; must love, and joy, and sorrow learn : something with passion clasp, or perish, and in itself to ashes burn.-Longfellow.

HEAVEN.-Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.—Bp. Hall.

He that studies to know duty, and labors in all things to do it, will have two heavens -one of joy, peace, and comfort on earth, and the other of glory and happiness beyond the grave.

There is a land where everlasting suns shed everlasting brightness; where the soul drinks from the living streams of love that roll by God's high throne !-myriads of glorious ones bring their accepted offering. Oh! how blest to look from this dark prison to that shrine, to inhale one breath of Paradise divine, and enter into that eternal rest which waits the sons of God!-Bowring.

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.-John Newton.

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There are treasures laid up in the heart, treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death when he leaves this world.-Buddhist Scriptures.

Heaven's the perfection of all that can be said or thought-riches, delight, harmony, health, beauty; and all these not subject to the waste of time, but in their height eternal.-Shirley.

To that state all the pious on earth are tending. Heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature; is enriching itself by the spoils of the earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent, and divine, leaving nothing for the last fire to consume but the objects and slaves of concupiscence; while everything which grace has prepared and beautified shall be gathered and selected from the ruins of the world to adorn that eternal city "which hath no need of the sun or moon to shine in it; for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof."-R. Hall.

My gems are falling away; but it is because God is making up his jewels.- Wolfe.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly. -Shakespeare.

It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.-Bacon.

"Do you think we shall know each other in heaven?" said one friend to another. "Yes," was the answer. "Do you think we shall be greater fools there than here?" -Evans.

Where is heaven? I cannot tell. Even to the eye of faith, heaven looks much like a star to the eye of flesh. Set there on the brow of night, it shines most bright, most beautiful; but it is separated from us by so great a distance as to be raised almost as high above our investigations as above the storms and clouds of earth.-Guthrie.

Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.-Atterbury.

The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.Lavater.

There are two unalterable prerequisites to man's being happy in the world to come. His sins must be pardoned and his nature must be changed. He must have a title to heaven and a fitness for heaven. These two ideas underlie the whole of Christ's work, and without the title to, and the fitness for, no man can enter the kingdom of God.Seeley.

Every saint in heaven is as a flower in the garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they all send forth, and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above. Every soul there is as a note in some concert of delightful music, that sweetly harmonizes with every other note, and all together blend in the most rapturous strains in praising God and the Lamb forever.-Jonathan Edwards.

Heaven will be the endless portion of every man who has heaven in his soul.—H. W. Beecher.

Heaven must be in me before I can be in heaven.-Stanford.

One sweetly solemn thought comes to me o'er and o'er; I'm nearer to my home today than I've ever been before; nearer my Father's house, where the many mansions be; nearer the great white throne, nearer the jasper sea; nearer the bound of life, where I lay my burden down; nearer leaving my cross; nearer wearing my crown !— Phœbe Cary.

Heaven is truth now received in love, and duty now performed in faith on Christ and in humble dependence on the Holy Spirit.

My chief conception of heaven, said Robert Hall, is rest.-Mine, said Wilberforce, is love.-Southey looked to it as a place of intellectual activity and enjoyment; Foster, as unfolding all the mysteries of truth and providence; Leighton, as the world of perfect spirituality and holiness; Payson, as where he should see Christ, and be with, and serve, and enjoy him forever.-Unite them all, and add all that heart can wish, or thought conceive, or we receive for eternity, and is not this heaven?-Tryon Edwards.

If God hath made this world so fair, where sin and death abound, how beautiful, beyond compare, will paradise be found.. Montgomery.

All the truly great and good, all the pure and holy and excellent from this world, and it may be from every part of the universe, are constantly tending toward heaven. As the streams tend to the ocean, so all these are tending to the great ocean of infinite purity and bliss. The progress of time does but bear them on to its blessedness; and us, if we are holy, to be united to them there. Every gem which death rudely tears away from us here, is a glorious jewel forever shining there. Every Christian friend that goes before us from this world, is a ransomed spirit, waiting to welcome us in heaven.-Jonathan Edwards.

Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy. -Shakespeare.

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Perfect purity, fulness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health, and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.-H. More.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.-Moore.

The song of heaven is ever new; for daily thus, and nightly, new discoveries are made of God's unbounded wisdom, love, and power, which give the understanding larger room, and swell the hymn with ever growing praise.—Pollok.

It is heaven only that is given away— only God may be had for the asking.-J. R. Lowell.

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.-Luther.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought. David and Isaiah will sweep nobler and loftier strains in eternity, and the minds of the saints, unclogged by cumbersome clay, will forever feast on the banquet of rich and glorious thought.-H. W. Beecher.

Nothing is farther than the earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.-Hare.

If the way to heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be strait, it opens into endless life.-Beveridge.

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get there; the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.-Bp. Horne.

Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.-Swedenborg.

The joys of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven and do its duties. Try that and prove its truth.As much goodness and piety, so much heaven.-Theodore Parker.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn, the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.-Guthrie.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.-M. Henry.

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.-Rutherford.

The city which God has prepared is as imperishable in its inhabitants as its materials. Its pearl, its jasper, its pure gold, are only immortal to frame the abode of immortals. No cry of death is in any of

its dwellings. No funeral darkens along any of its ways. No sepulcher of the holiest relics gleams among the everlasting hills. Violence is not heard in the land." "There is no more death." Its very name has perished. "Is swallowed up in victory."-R. W. Hamilton.

To us who are Christians, is it not a solemn, but a delightful thought, that perhaps nothing but the opaque bodily eye prevents us from beholding the gate which is open just before us; and nothing but the dull ear prevents us from hearing the ringing of those bells of joy which welcome us to the heavenly land?-H. W. Beecher.

No man will go to heaven when he dies who has not sent his heart thither while he lives. Our greatest security is to be derived from duty, and our only confidence from the mercy of God through Jesus Christ.-Bp. Wilson.

Here must be the heir, if yonder his inheritance; here the laborer, if yonder his rest; here the candidate, if yonder his reward. As he now adds excellence to excellence, as he is now not barren nor unfruitful, so shall an entrance be ministered to him abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. -R. W. Hamilton.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world. Rutherford.

HEIRS. (See "INHERITANCE.")
HELL. (See "INTENTIONS.")

Hell is truth seen too late-duty neglected in its season.-Tryon Edwards.

Hell is as ubiquitous as condemning conscience.-F. W. Robertson.

Hell is but the collected ruins of the moral world, and sin is the principle that has made them.

When the world dissolves, all places will be hell that are not heaven.-Marlowe.

In the utmost solitudes of nature the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared, by a thousand spiritual utterances, as that of heaven.-Ruskin.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. -Milton.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.-Herbert.

Character is not changed by passing into eternity, except in degree.-The wilfully wicked on earth will continue so in the other world.

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labor they put forth to go to hell, if they would but venture their industry in the right way.-Ben Jonson.

Hell is the full knowledge of the truth, when truth, resisted long, is sworn our foe, and calls eternity to do her right.-Young.

Divines and dying men may talk of hell, but in my heart her several torments dwell. Shakespeare.

If there be a paradise for virtues, there must be a hell for crimes.- Caussin.

A guilty conscience is a hell on earth, and points to one beyond.

Tell me not of the fire and the worm, and the blackness and darkness of hell. To my terrified conscience there is hell enough in this representation of it, that it is the common sewer of all that is abominable and abandoned and reckless as to principle, and depraved as to morals, the one common eddy where all things that are polluted and wretched and filthy are gathered together. -Beaumont.

HELP. Help thyself, and God will help thee.-Herbert.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.—Bulwer.

God helps them that help themselves.Old Proverb.

Light is the task where many share the toil.-Homer.

"Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.-Shakespeare.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

God be praised, who, to believing souls, gives light in darkness, comfort in despair, -Shakespeare.

God has so ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and bear each other's burdens. -Sala.

HEROISM.-Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course not; for one must be a hero to understand a hero.-The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.-Goethe.

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.-Mad. Necker.

Of two heroes, he is the greatest who esteems his rivals most.-Beaumelle.

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there.-But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.-G. W. Curtis.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.-Rochefoucauld.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprize; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.—Lavater.

In analyzing the character of heroes it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own.-Hallam.

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.-Chesterfield.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.—Colton.

Fear nothing so much as sin, and your moral heroism is complete.-C. Simmons.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.—George Eliot.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.-Rous

seau.

To live well in the quiet routine of life, to fill a little space because God wills it, to go on cheerfully with a petty round of little duties and little avocations; to smile for the joys of others when the heart is aching -who does this, his works will follow him. He is one of God's heroes.—Farrar.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered, than for what they have achieved. Johnson.

However great the advantages which nature bestows on us, it is not she alone, but fortune in conjunction with her, which makes heroes.-Rochefoucauld.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.— Emerson.

The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.—Richter.

The man who rules his spirit, saith the voice that cannot err, is greater than the one who takes a city.-If each would have dominion of himself, would govern wisely, and thus show true courage, knowledge, power, benevolence, all the princely soul of private virtues, then each would be a

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prince-a hero-a man in likeness of his maker.—Mrs. S. J. Hale.

Every man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person, whatever he says, has an enhanced value.-Emerson.

Dream not that helm and harness are signs of valor true.-Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.Whittier.

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?Seneca.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool.-The truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted and when obeyed.-Hawthorne.

Unbounded courage and compassion joined proclaim him good and great, and make the hero and the man complete.— Addison.

One murder makes a villain; millions a hero.-Bp. Porteus.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields of history.-H. W. Beecher.

The heroes of mankind are the mountains, the highlands of the moral world. A. P. Stanley.

HISTORY.-History is philosophy teaching by example, and also by warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.-Garfield.

All history is a lie.-Sir R. Walpole.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.-Froude.

When Frederic the Great would have his secretary read history to him, he would say, Bring me my liar."

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.-Gibbon.

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man. Washington Irving.

History is but the development and revelation of providence.-Kossuth.

We read history through our prejudices. - Wendell Phillips.

God is in the facts of history as truly as he

is in the march of the seasons, the revolutions of the planets, or the architecture of the worlds.-J. Lanahan.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.-Tacitus.

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An historian ought to be exact, sincere, and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment, or affection and faithful to the truth, which is the mother of history, the preserver of great actions, the enemy of oblivion, the witness of the past, the director of the future.

What is history but a fable agreed upon. -Napoleon.

What are all histories but God manifesting himself, shaking down and trampling under foot whatsoever he hath not planted.-Cromwell.

Truth is very liable to be left-handed in history.-A. Dumas.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.-Lamartine.

The best thing which we derive from history is the enthusiasm that it raises in us. Goethe.

Grecian history is a poem; Latin history, a picture; modern history a chronicle.Chateaubriand.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us !-But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us. -Coleridge.

The men who make history, have not time to write it.—Metternich.

We must consider how very little history there is; I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend on as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy of history is conjecture.-Johnson.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge who sees, listens, and decides.-Lamartine.

Violent natures make history.-The instruments they use almost always kill. Religion and philosophy have their vestments covered with innocent blood.—Doudan.

As in every human character so in every transaction there is a mixture of good and evil: a little exaggeration, a little sup