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tachment to civil freedom. Conscience, in the cause of religion, prepares the mind to act and to suffer, beyond almost all other causes. It sometimes gives an impulse so irresistible, that no fetters of power or of opinion can withstand it. History instructs us, that this love of religious liberty, made up of the clearest sense of right and the highest conviction of duty, is able to look the sternest despotism in the face, and, with means apparently inadequate, to shake principalities and powers.-Daniel Webster.

A day, an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity of bondage.-Addison.

The true danger is, when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.-Burke.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside.-Cowper.

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.-H. W. Beecher.

LIBRARIES.-Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.-Colton.

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.-Bacon.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed, may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.-Dyer.

Let us pity those poor rich men who live barrenly in great bookless houses! Let us congratulate the poor that, in our day, books are so cheap that a man may every year add a hundred volumes to his library for the price of what his tobacco and beer would cost him. Among the earliest ambitions to be excited in clerks, workmen, journeymen, and, indeed, among all that are struggling up from nothing to something, is that of owning, and constantly adding to a library of good books. A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a young man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. -H. W. Beecher.

What laborious days, what watchings by the midnight lamp, what rackings of the brain, what hopes and fears, what long lives of laborious study, are here sublimized into print, and condensed into the narrow compass of these surrounding shelves!-Horace Smith.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.-Longfellow.

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here, as in some dormitory or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.Lamb.

My library was dukedom large enough.Shakespeare.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.-Seneca.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.-Emerson.

A great library contains the diary of the human race. The great consulting room of a wise man is a library.-G. Dawson.

What a world of wit is here packed together!-I know not whether the sight doth more dismay or comfort me.-It dismays me to think that here is so much I cannot know it comforts me to think that this variety yields so good helps to know what I should.-Blessed be the memory of those who have left their blood, their spirits, their lives, in these precious books, and have willingly wasted themselves into these during monuments, to give light unto others.-Bp. Hall.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.-Carlyle.

From this slender beginning I have gradually formed a numerous and select library, the foundation of all my works, and the best comfort of my life, both at home and abroad.-Gibbon.

No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and de

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lectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures which never cloy. -J. A. Langford.

A library may be regarded as the solemn chamber in which a man may take counsel with all who have been wise, and great, and good, and glorious among the men that have gone before him.-G. Dawson.

We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another: we give no offense to the most iliustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence; each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.-Landor.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.-Tryon Edwards.

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a fartraveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor. The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. Odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves, the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold.Willmott.

LICENTIOUSNESS.-Impure thoughts waken impure feelings, lead to impure expressions, and beget impure actions, and these lead to imbecility both of body and mind, and to the ruin of all that is noble and pure in character.-C. Sim

mons.

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.Secker.

Lewdness is a very broad way to death, ornamented with artful flowers, and begins to allure and seduce travelers at an early age.-Parental watchfulness, guarding them from early childhood, should be diligent to keep them from this way to ruin. -C. Simmons.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.-Swift.

LIFE. Every man's life is a plan of God.-Horace Bushnell.

One life; a little gleam of time between two eternities; no second chance for us forever more.-Carlyle.

God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste that lifts him

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into life, and lets him fall in just the niche he was ordained to fill..

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.-De Tocqueville.

The shortest life is long enough if it lead to a better, and the longest life is short if it do not.-Colton.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.-Phillips Brooks.

We can never see this world in its true light, unless we consider our life in it as a state of probation and discipline, a condition through which we are passing to prepare us for another state. J. W. Alexander.

As no true work since the world began was ever wasted, so no true life since the world began has ever failed.-Emerson.

Life has no significance to me save as the theater in which our powers are developed and disciplined for use, and made fruitful in securing our own independence, and the good of those around us, or as the scene in which we are fitted for the work and worship of the world beyond.-J. G. Holland.

We live no more of our time here than we live well.-Carlyle.

The man who lives in vain, lives worse than in vain. He who lives to no purpose, lives to a bad purpose.-W. Nevins.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.-Penn.

The retrospect of life swarms with lost opportunities.-Sir H. Taylor.

Life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality, based on and encompassed by eternity. Find out your work, and stand to it; the night cometh when no man can work.Carlyle.

Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures; that life is long, which answers life's great end. The time that bears no fruit, deserves no name; the man of wisdom is the man of years.-Young.

I would have every one consider that he is, in this life, only a passenger, and that he is not to set up his rest here, but to keep an attentive eye on that state of being to which he approaches every moment, and which will be forever fixed and permanent. This single consideration would be sufficient to extinguish the bitterness of hatred, the thirst of avarice, and the cruelty of ambition. Addison.

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone; and death, though perhaps

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they receive him differently, yet treats alike the fool and the philosopher. Hume

Life, all life is expenditure; we have it, but as continually losing it; we have the use of it, but as continually wasting it. Suppose a man confined in some fortress, under the doom to stay there until his death; and suppose there is for his use a dark reservoir of water, to which it is certain none can ever be added. He knows that the quantity is not very great; he cannot penetrate to ascertain how much, but it may be very little. He has drawn from it, by means of a fountain, a good while already, and draws from it every day. But how would he feel each time of drawing, and each time of thinking of it? Not as if he had a perennial spring to go to; not, "I have a reservoir, I may be at ease." No; but, "I had water yesterday-I have water to-day; but my having had it, and my having it to-day, is the very cause I shall not have it on some day that is approaching. And at the same time I am compelled to this fatal expenditure!" So of our mortal, transient life! And yet men are very indisposed to admit the plain truth that life is a thing which they are in no other way possessing than as necessarily consuming; and that even in this imperfect sense of possession, it becomes every day less a possession!-John Foster.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?"-Faber.

It is a truth to be remembered, that this life, which is mortal, is given to us that we may prepare for the life which is immortal. -De Sales.

Life is before you; not an earthly life alone, but an endless life; a thread running interminably through the work of eternity.-J. G. Holland.

Our life is like Alpine countries, where winter is found by the side of summer, and where it is but a step from a garden to a glacier.-Richter.

Life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer or to do.—F. W. Robertson.

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, and honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, and honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably.Epicurus.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.-Shakespeare.

Life is hardly respectable if it has no generous task, no duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existence. Every man's task is his life-preserver.-Emerson. A useless life is only an early death.Goethe.

Why all this toil for the triumphs of an hour?-Young.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.Franklin

Life is a series of surprises. We do not, guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the power of to-morrow, when we are building up our being.-Emerson.

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.

There is not one life which the Life-giver ever loses out of His sight; not one which sins so that He casts it away; not one which is not so near to Him that whatever touches it touches Him with sorrow or with joy.— Phillips Brooks.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.- Voltaire.

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost. God is better than his promise if he takes from him a long lease, and gives him a freehold of a better value.-Fuller.

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business; then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.-Addison.

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.-Zimmer

mann.

Life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or patient perseverance.-Liddon.

Life, like the waters of the seas, freshens only when it ascends toward heaven.Richter.

I would so live as if I knew that I received my being only for the benefit of others.-Seneca.

He that embarks in the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many founder in their passage,

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while they lie waiting for the gale.-John

son.

Measure not life by the hopes and enjoyments of this world, but by the preparation it makes for another; looking forward to what you shall be rather than backward to what you have been.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.-Tieck.

I am convinced that there is no man that knows life well, and remembers all the incidents of his past existence, who would accept it again.-Campbell.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?-Mad. de Maintenon.

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.-Colton.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.- Theodore Parker.

If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this; make the most and best of yourself.-There is no tragedy like a wasted life-a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.T. T. Munger.

When I reflect upon what I have seen, have heard, and have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion.-Chesterfield.

We never live, but we ever hope to live. -Pascal.

Life, according to an Arabic proverb, is composed of two parts: that which is past -a dream; and that which is to comea wish.

Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, beautiful butterflies, and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak, the flowers and butterflies

fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived-to reach a desert waste.G. A. Sala.

Life is the childhood of our immortality. -Goethe

Life is thick sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.- Voltaire.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.- Wendell Phillips.

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.-Montaigne.

How great a pity that we should not feel for what end we are born into this world, till just as we are leaving it.- Walsingham.

Though I think no man can live well once but he that could live twice, yet for my own part, I would not live over my hours past, or begin again the thread of my days: not because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.-Sir T. Browne.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire; not too near, lest he burn; not to far off, lest he freeze.-Diogenes.

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that, were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.-Franklin.

He who increases the endearments of life, increases at the same time the terrors of death.-Young.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels, or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.-Fitzosborne.

Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come.. - Albert Barnes.

Hope writes the poetry of the boy, but memory that of the man. Man looks forward with smiles, but backward with sighs. Such is the wise providence of God. The cup of life is sweetest at the brim, the flavor is impaired as we drink deeper, and the dregs are made bitter that we may not struggle when it is taken from our lips.

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Let us love life and feel the value of it, that we may fill it with Christ.-A. Monod.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.-L'Estrange.

If we do not weigh and consider to what end this life is given us, and thereupon order and dispose it right, we do not number our days in the narrowest and most limited signification.-Clarendon.

It is an infamy to die and not be missed. -Carlos Wilcox.

Would you throughout life be up to the height of your century, always in the prime of man's reason, without crudeness and without decline, live habitually, while young, with persons older, and when old with persons younger than yourself. Bulwer.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.-Augusta Evans.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be shorter than nature allows, ought to waken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true that no diligence can ensure success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking, has at least the honor of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle though he missed the victory.—Johnson.

The vanity of human life is like a rivulet, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.-Pope.

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts.-History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves.-There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.Bulwer.

We are immortal till our work is done.Whitefield.

Our life cannot be pronounced happy till the last scene has closed with resignation and hope, and in the full prospect of a blessed immortality beyond the grave.

This little life has its duties that are great that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.-Carlyle.

They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose; who have rather breathed than lived.-Clarendon.

Many think themselves to be truly Godfearing when they call this world a valley of tears. But I believe they would be more

so, if they called it a happy valley. God is more pleased with those who think everything right in the world, than with those who think nothing right. With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?-Richter.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.Goethe.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.Goethe.

What a beautiful lesson is taught in these words of Sterne: "So quickly sometimes has the wheel of life turned round, that many a man has lived to enjoy the benefit of that charity which his own piety projected."

The meaning, the value, the truth of life can be learned only by an actual performance of its duties, and truth can be learned and the soul saved in no other way. -T. T. Munger.

It is the bounty of nature that we live, but of philosophy that we live well; which is, in truth, a greater benefit than life itself.

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Fleeting as were the dreams of old, remembered like a tale that's told, we pass away.-Longfellow.

The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, 'twere too long.-Shakespeare.

Bestow thy youth so that thou mayst have comfort to remember it, when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. Whilst thou art young thou wilt think it will never have an end; but behold, the longest day hath his evening, and thou shalt enjoy it but once; it never turns again; use it therefore as the spring-time, which soon departeth, and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life.-Sir W. Raleigh.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on the dial; we should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.-Bailey.

There is nothing which must end, to be valued for its continuance. If hours, days, months, and years pass away, it is no matter what hour, day, month, or year we die. The applause of a good actor is due to him at whatever scene of the play he makes his exit. It is thus in the life of a man of