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fatigue of body and mind, and disgust with regard to the past, and a profound sentiment of discouragement and despair with regard to the future.-Talleyrand.

The shaping our own life is our own work. It is a thing of beauty, or a thing of shame, as we ourselves make it. We lay the corner and add joint to joint, we give the proportion, we set the finish. It may be a thing of beauty and of joy for ever. God forgive us if we pervert our life from putting on its appointed glory !— Ware.

What a death in life it must be-an existence whose sole aim is good eating and drinking, splendid houses and elegant clothes! Not that these things are bad in moderation-and with something higher beyond. But with nothing beyond ?-Mulock.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two-common sense and perseverance.-Feltham.

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To live is not merely to breathe, it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties, of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence. The man who has lived longest is not the man who has counted most years, but he who has enjoyed life most. Such a one was buried a hundred years old, but he was dead from his birth. He would have gained by dying young; at least he would have lived till that time.-Rousseau.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.— Stanislaus.

Live as if you expected to live an hundred years, but might die to-morrow.-Ann Lee.

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One who sees the end from the beginning; he shall yet unravel all.-Alexander Smith.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.—Phillips Brooks.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles. and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.—Sir H. Davy.

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. What we call life is a journey to death, and what we call death is a passport to life.Colton.

Age and youth look upon life from the

opposite ends of the telescope; to the one it is exceedingly long, to the other exceedingly short.-H. W. Beeche: .

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, complaining of the present, and trembling for the future.-Rivarol.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that, but he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.-F. W. Robertson.

With most men life is like backgammon -half skill and half luck.-O. W. Holmes.

LIGHT.-Hail! holy light, offspring of heaven, first born!-Milton.

The first creation of God, in the works of the days, was the light of sense; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of the spirit.-Bacon.

Before the sun, before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice of God, as with a mantle didst invest the rising world of waters dark and deep won from the void and formless infinite.-Milton.

Light! Nature's resplendent robe; without whose vesting beauty all were wrapt in gloom.-Thomson.

Light is the symbol of truth.-J. R. Lowell.

The eye's light is a noble gift of heaven! All beings live from light; each fair created thing, the very plants, turn with a joyful transport to the light.--Schiller.

Light is the shadow of God.-Plato.

Moral light is the radiation of the diviner glory.-Dick.

The light of nature, the light of science, and the light of reason, are but as darkness, compared with the divine light which shines only from the word of God.—J. K. Lord.

Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the light which the sun pours freely, impartially, over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason and conscience and love are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.Channing.

We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and the joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as

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a torch, by which we may behold his works. Caussin.

Walk boldly and wisely in the light thou hast; there is a hand above will help thee on.-Bailey.

Walk in the light and thou shalt see thy path, though thorny, bright; for God, by grace, shall dwell in thee, and God himself is light.-Barton.

LITERATURE.-Literature is a fragment of a fragment; of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written, and of this but little is extant. -Goethe.

The literature of an age is but the mirror of its prevalent tendencies.-Nation.

The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theater of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakespeare will be renewed with greater and greater luster in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.-Prescott.

The literature of a people must spring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.—Mrs. Stowe.

A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fulness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought and feeling, to which nothing, as we believe, ministers so largely as enlightened_religion.—Channing.

Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.Froude.

Literature is a great staff, but a sorry crutch.- Walter Scott.

When literature is the sole business of life, it becomes a drudgery. When we are able to resort to it only at certain hours, it is a charming relaxation. In my earlier days I was a banker's clerk, obliged to be at the desk every day from ten till five o'clock; and I shall never forget the delight with which, on returning home, I used to read and write during the evening.Rogers.

Literary dissipation is no less destructive of sympathy with the living world, than sensual dissipation. Mere intellect is as hard-hearted and as heart-hardening as mere sense; and the union of the two, when uncontrolled by the conscience and without the softening, purifying influences of the moral affections, is all that is requi

site to produce the diabolical ideal of our nature.-Anon.

Books only partially represent their authors; the writer is always greater than his work.-Bovee.

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other. Colton.

In the literature of the world there is not one popular book which is immoral that continues to exist two centuries after it is produced; for in the heart of nations the false does not live so long, and the true is ethical to the end of time.—Bulwer.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of the church and state.—Bacon.

He who would understand the real spirit of literature should not select authors of any one period alone, but rather go to the fountain head, and trace the little rill as it courses along down the ages broadening and deepening into the great ocean of thought which the men of the present are exploring.-Garfield.

Inscience, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.-Bulwer.

A country which has no national literature, or a literature too insignificant to force its way abroad, must always be, to its neighbors at least, in every important spiritual respect, an unknown and unestimated country.—Carlyle.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep pace in their downward tendency.—Goethe.

I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession.—Thackeray.

The study of literature nourishes youth, entertains old age, adorns prosperity, solaces adversity, is delightful at home, and unobtrusive abroad.-Cicero.

Nothing lives in literature but that which has in it the vitality of creative art; and it would be safe advice to the young to read nothing but what is old.-E. P. Whipple.

In literature, to-day, there are plenty of good masons but few good architects.Joubert.

The great standard of literature, as to purity and exactness of style, is the Bible. -Blair.

Such superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation,

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that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those who excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.-Hume.

The beaten paths of literature lead safeliest to the goal, and the talent pleases us most which submits to shine with new gracefulness through old forms.-Nor is the noblest and most peculiar mind too noble or peculiar for working by prescribed laws. -Carlyle.

There, is first, the literature of knowledge; and, secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is, to teach; of the second is, to move; the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.-De Quincey.

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.-Heine.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. -Horace.

The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general, once skillfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said, that they are popular in despite of their subjects-but of a great many more, that they are popular because of them.Bovee.

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places, and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow-travel

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on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.- Cicero.

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.—Disraeli.

Literature has now become a game in which the booksellers are the kings; the critics, the knaves; the public, the pack ; and the poor author, the mere table or thing played upon.-Colton.

Literature is the immortality of speech. -Schlegel.

LITTLE THINGS.-(See "TRIFLES.") He that despiseth small things, shall fall by little and little.-Ecclesiasticus.

Most of the critical things in life, which become the starting points of human destiny, are little things.-R. Smith.

Minute events are the hinges on which magnificent results turn.-In a watch the smallest link, chain, ratchet, cog, or crank, is as essential as the main spring itself.If one fall out the whole will stand still. Cumming.

Without mounting by degrees, a man cannot attain to high things; and the breaking of the ladder still casteth a man back, and maketh the thing wearisome, which was easy.-Sir P. Sidney.

The power of little things has so often been noted that we accept it as an axiom, and yet fail to see, in each beginning, the possibility of great. events.-F. P. Edwards.

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. -Persian Proverb.

It is the fixed law of the universe, that little things are but parts of the great. The grass does not spring up full grown, by eruptions: it rises by an increase so noiseless and gentle, as not to disturb an angel's ear-perhaps to be invisible to an angel's eye. The rain does not fall in masses, but in drops, or even in the breath-like moisture of the fine mist. The planets do not leap from end to end of their orbits, but inch by inch, and line by line, it is, that they circle the heavens. Intellect, feeling, habit, character, all become what they are through the influence of little things. And in morals and religion, it is by little things-by little influences acting on us, or seemingly little decisions made by us, that every one of us is going, not by leaps, yet surely by inches, either to life or death eternal.-Tryon Edwards.

Great results are oft the issue of small occasions. Providence uses little things for great issues, and things despised for ends of everlasting honor.-A. Phelps.

If God gives us but little tasks, let us be content to do little. It is but pride and self-will, which says: "Give me something great to do; I should enjoy that; but why make me sweep the dust?”—C. Kingsley.

Many men fail in life, from the want, as they are too ready to suppose, of those great occasions wherein they might have shown their trustworthiness and integrity. But all such persons should remember, that in order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water, before we trust it with the wine. The more minute and trivial opportunities of being just and up

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right, are constantly occurring to every one; and it is an unimpeachable character in these lesser things that prepares and produces those very opportunities of greater advancement, and of higher confidence, which turn out so rich a harvest, but which only those are permitted to reap who have previously sowu.-Colton.

The greatest things ever done on earth have been done by little and little-little agents, little persons, little things, by every one doing his own work, filling his own sphere, holding his own post, and saying, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" Guthrie.

The smallest hair throws its shadow.Goethe.

There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man.-It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.-Johnson.

Little things are great to little men.Goldsmith.

The influences of little things are as real, and as constantly about us, as the air we breathe, or the light by which we see. These are the small-the often invisiblethe almost unthought of strands, which are inweaving and twisting by millions, to bind us to character-to good or evil here, and to heaven or hell hereafter.-Tryon Edwards.

Small things are not small if great results come of them.

Little things console us, because little things afflict us.-Pascal.

Despise not small things, either for evil or good, for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.-A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.Tupper.

Most persons would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.-Longfellow.

Do little things now, so shall big things come to thee, by and by, asking to be done. -Persian Proverb.

The power to do great things generally arises from the willingness to do small things.

We blame others for slight things, and overlook greater in ourselves.-Thomas à Kempis.

LOGIC.-Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the least work.-Colton.

It was a saying of the ancients, that

"truth lies in a well"; and to carry on the metaphor, we may justly say, that logic supplies us with steps whereby we may go down to reach the water.- Watts.

Logic is the science of the laws of thought as thought, that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, in itself considered, is subject.-Sir W. Hamilton.

Assertion is the logic of ignorance and prejudice; argument, the logic of wisdom and truth.—Tryon Edwards.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some needful instruments, and many more that are superfluous.-A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so are assorted and arranged.—Colton.

Logic and rhetoric make men able to contend.-Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the one close, the other at large.-Bacon.

Ethics makes one's soul mannerly and wise, but logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.-Fuller.

Logic works; metaphysics contemplates. -Joubert.

Syllogism is of necessary use, even to the lovers of truth, to show them the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved discourses.-Locke.

Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth.-Bruyère.

LOOKS. (See "EYE" and "FACE.”)

Looks are more expressive and reliable than words; they have a language which all understand, and language itself is to be interpreted by the look as well as tone with which it is uttered.-Tryon Edwards.

Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth; a smile recures the wounding of a frown.-Shakespeare.

Their eyes but met, and then were turned aside. It was enough.-That mystic eloquence, unheard, yet visible, is deeply felt, and tells what else were incommunicable.Derozier.

Features-the great soul's apparent seat. -Bryant.

What brutal mischief sits upon his brow! He may be honest, but he looks damnation. -Dryden.

A good face is a letter of recommendation, as a good heart is a letter of credit.Bulwer.

In his looks appears a wild, distracted

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fierceness; I can read some dreadful purpose in his face.-Denham.

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and that it is which crowns a welcome.Massinger.

"Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, when discontent sits heavy at my heart.Addison.

Coldness and aversion are in your looks, and tell no pity is concealed within. Havard.

His visage seemed to bear a mixture of uncertain cheerfulness, like hope corrected by some cautious fear.-Sewell.

How in the looks does conscious guilt appear.—Ovid.

O there are looks and tones that dart an instant sunshine to the heart, as if the soul that minute caught some treasure it through life had sought; as if the very lips and eyes sparkled and spoke before us.Moore.

With such ardent eyes he wandered o'er me, and gazed with such intensity of love, sending his soul out to me in a look.— Young.

A sweet attractive kind of grace; a full assurance given by looks; continual comfort in a face, the lineaments of gospel books.-Roydon.

LOQUACITY. (See "SPEECH," "NOISE," "TALKING.")

A talkative fellow may be compared to an unbraced drum, which beats a wise man out of his wits.-Loquacity is ever running, and almost incurable.-Feltham.

Learn to hold thy tongue; five words cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence.-Fuller.

Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed. -Sir W. Raleigh.

Of a great and wise statesman it is said, that he can hold his tongue in ten different languages."

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing; his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search.Shakespeare.

Thou may'st esteem a man of many words and many lies much alike.-Fuller.

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.Socrates.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers.-The less men think the more they talk.-Montesquieu.

Labor to show more wit in discourse than words, and not to pour out a flood of the one, when you can hardly wring out of your brains a drop of the other.-Spencer.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative.— Goldsmith.

There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking and swearing other than braying.-L'Estrange.

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.-Shakespeare.

He loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.-Shakespeare.

Be always less willing to speak than to hear; what thou hearest, thou receivest; what thou speakest thou givest.-It is more glorious to give, but more profitable to receive.-Quarles.

Many a man's tongue shakes out its master's undoing.-Shakespeare.

They only babble who practise not reflection.—I shall think; and thought is silence. -Sheridan.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.Shakespeare.

They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.-Prior.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.-Socrates.

No fool can be silent at a feast.-Solon.

Still his tongue ran on; the less weight it bore with greater ease; and with its everlasting clack, set all men's ears upon the rack.—Samuel Butler.

A man that speaks too much, and museth but little, wasteth his mind in words, and is counted a fool among men.-Tupper.

LOSSES. (See "MISFORTUNE.")

We never seem to know what anything means till we have lost it.-The full significance of those words, property, ease, health-the wealth of meaning that lies in the fond epithets, parent, child, friend, we never know till they are taken away; till in place of the bright, visible being, comes the awful and desolate shadow where nothing is where we stretch out our hands in vain, and strain our eyes upon dark and dismal vacuity.-O. Dewey.