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known by their badge, which is love.Bp. Latimer.

A man's want of beauty is of small account if he be not deficient in other amiable qualities, for there is no conquest without the affections, and what mole can be so blind as a woman in love.-Ninon de l'Enclos.

There is no permanent love but that which has duty for its eldest brother; so that if one sleeps the other watches, and honor is safe.-Stahl.

All loves should be simply steppingstones to the love of God? So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.-Plato.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?-Miss M. E. Braddon.

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this every-day world, it is the exception.-Mad. Necker.

Love makes obedience lighter than liberty.-R. W. Alger.

Love is to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.--Balzac.

One half, the finest half of life, is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.-Beyle.

He who, silent, loves to be with us-he who loves us in our silence-has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.-Lavater.

It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion; there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.Longfellow.

A woman cannot love a man she feels to be her inferior; love without veneration and enthusiasm is only friendship.-Mad. Dudevant.

The heart of a young woman in love is a golden sanctuary which often enshrines an idol of clay.-Limayrac.

They love least, that let men know their love.-Shakespeare.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominate it is a passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.-Colton.

We love a girl for very different things than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices, and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding. Her mind we esteem if it is brilliant, and it may greatly elevate her

in our opinion; nay, more, it may enchain us when we already love. But her understanding is not that which awakens and inflames our passions.-Goethe.

The love of a delicate female is always shy and silent. Even when fortunate, she scarcely breathes it to herself; but when otherwise, she buries it in the recesses of her bosom, and there lets it cower and brood among the ruins of her peace.Washington Irving.

In love we rarely think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones.-Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.-Hazlitt.

First love is an instinct-at once a gift and a sacrifice.-Every other is a philosophy-a bargain.-A. S. Hardy.

He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation.— L. Malet.

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.-Luther.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.-L. Malet.

We love the virtues, but do not fall in love with them.-They confirm and nurture love, but after middle age they do not give it birth.-A. S. Hardy.

I know no better augury of a young man's future than true filial devotion. Very rarely does one go morally wrong, whose passionate love to his mother is a ruling force in his life, and whose continual desire is to gladden her heart. Next to the love of God, this is the noblest emotion. I do not remember a single instance of a young fellow going to the bad who was tenderly devoted to his parents.-Thain Davidson.

The accents of love are all that is left of the language of paradise. Bulwer.

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love.-The characters that are great, must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient, and strong to endure for others. To hold

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our nature in the willing service of another, is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.-H. W. Beecher.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.-Leibnitz.

The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this-they are always talking of themselves.-Rochefoucauld.

Oh, let the steps of youth be cautious how they advance into a dangerous world; our duty only can conduct us safe, our passions are seducers; and of all, the strongest is love.-Southey.

We attract hearts by the qualities we display we retain them by the qualities we possess.-Suard.

Oh, why should man's success remove the very charms that wake his love!-- Walter Scott.

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.-Coleridge.

It is the very essence of love, of nobleness, of greatness, to be willing to suffer for the good of others.-Spence.

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.- Washington Irving.

Of all the paths leading to a woman's love, pity is the straightest.-Beaumont.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.--Mrs. Stowe.

Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms them. -J. P. Senn.

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.-Jerrold.

The blood of youth burns not with such excess, as gravity's revolt to wantonness. -Shakespeare.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover. Otway.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.-Balzac.

Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.— Emerson.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the emperors signed their names in

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green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.-Longfellow..

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.-H. W. Beecher.

Love sees what no eye sees; love hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object.-Lavater.

If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.-Doddridge."

With thee all toils are sweet; each clime hath charms; carth-sea alike-our world within our arms!-Byron.

Love must shun the path where many rove; one bosom to recline upon, one heart to be his only one, are quite enough for love-Moore.

In peace, love tunes the shepherd's reed; in war, he mounts the warrior's steed; in halls, in gay attire is seen; in hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and saints above; for love is heaven, and heaven is love. Walter Scott.

Love is the purification of the heart from self; it strengthens and ennobles the character; gives higher motive and nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble, and courageous. --The power to love truly and devotedly is the noblest gift with which a human being can be endowed; but it is a sacred fire that must not be burned to idols.-Miss Jewsbury.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.-Marcus Antoninus.

The first symptom of love in a young man, is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.-The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other.Victor Hugo.

True love of our friends should hardly attach us to the world; for the greater number of those we have loved most are gathered into eternity, so that it is but exile from them that we covet when we would prolong our stay here on earth.

A father's heart is tender, though the man's is made of stone.-Young.

If there is anything better than to be loved, it is loving.-Anon.

Certain it is that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as the love of a father to a daughter. He beholds her both with and without regard to her sex.-In love to our wives, there is desire; to our sons, there

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is ambition; but in that to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.-Addison.

If there be one thing pure, where all beside is sullied, and that can endure when all else passes away-if aught surpassing human deed, or word, or thought, it is a mother's love.-Spadara.

The love of man, in his mature years, is not so much a new emotion, as a revival and concentration of all his departed affections toward others. -Bulwer.

One hour of love will teach a woman more of her true relations than all your philosophizing.-Margaret Fuller.

Not father or mother has loved you as God has, for it was that you might be happy he gave his only son.-When he bowed his head in the death hour, love solemnized its triumph; the sacrifice there was completed.-Longfellow.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?-Hare.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks,love, and the contemplation of the Deity.Watts.

Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God, for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the bond of perfection; it is the old, the new, and the great commandment, and all the commandments, for it is the fulfilling of the law. It does the work of all the other graces without any instrument but its own immediate virtue.-Jeremy Taylor.

If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nourished.-Quarles.

Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love is that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand. There is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love. Tupper.

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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.-Penn.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.-Bovee.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.-St. Bernard,

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.-Hervey.

Love is indeed heaven upon earth; since heaven above would not be heaven without it; for where there is not love, there is fear; but, "Perfect love casteth out fear." And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most love.-Penn.

How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.-Leighton. Humble love, and not proud science, keeps the door of heaven.-Young.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and.truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.-Petrarch.

They are the true disciples of Christ, not who know most, but who love most.-Spanheim.

Did a woman ever love who would not give all the years of tasteless serenity for one year, for one month, for one day of uncalculating delirium of love poured out upon the man who returned it. - C. D. Warner.

If the tender, profound, and sympathizing love, practised and recommended by Jesus, were paramount in every heart, the loftiest and most glorious idea of human society would be realized, and little be wanting to make this world a kingdom of heaven. Krummacher.

LUCK.-There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when the good time comes.

Hope nothing from luck, and the probability is that you will be so prepared, forewarned, and forearmed, that all shallow observers will call you lucky.—Bulwer.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck. A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of.-Addison.

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All successful men have agreed in being causationists; they believed that things were not by luck, but by law-that there was not a weak or cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things-the cause and effect.-Emerson.

Ill-luck, is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of saying pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.-T. T. Munger.

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles.

Luck relies on chance. Labor on character.-Cobden.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.- Victor Cherbuliez.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.-N. P. Willis.

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?-Rothschild,

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. It was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise.-Strong men believe in cause and effect.-The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of this deed, and by looking narrowly, you shall see there was no luck in the matter, but it was all a problem in arithmetic, or an experiment in chemistry.-Emerson.

"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.-Anon.

Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.-Emerson.

There are no chances so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.-Rochefoucauld.

Luck generally comes to those who look after it; and my notion is that it taps, once

in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.Spurgeon.

LUST.-It is the difference betwixt lust and love, that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes, by enjoyment; and the reason is, that one springs from a union of souls, and the other springs from a union of sense.-Penn.

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; and, like the blast of pestilential winds, taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms.-Milton.

It is the grand battle of life to teach lust the limits of the Divine law-to break it into the taste of the bread of heaven.J. B. Brown.

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and, finally, a mortal bane to all the body.-Pliny.

So long as lust, whether of the world or the flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.-Cotton.

Short is the course of every lawless pleasure; grief, like a shade, on all its footsteps waits, scarce visible in joy's meridian height; but downward as its blaze declining speeds, the dwarfish shadow to a giant spreads.-Milton.

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.Jeremy Taylor.

Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, what most we ought to fear; the headstrong beast rushes along impatient of the course; nor hears the rider's call, nor feels the rein.-Rowe.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. -Saadi.

When lust, by unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, but most by lewd and lavish acts of sin, lets in defilement to the inward parts, the soul grows clotted by contagion, embodies and imbrutes till she quite lose the divine property of her first being.-Milton.

Servile inclinations and gross love, the guilty bent of vicious appetite; at first a sin, a horror ev'n in bliss, deprave the senses and lay waste the man; passions irregular, and next a loathing, quickly succeed to dash the wild desire.-Havard.

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I know the very difference that lies 'twixt hallowed love and base unholy lust. -I know the one is as a golden spur, urging the spirit to all noble aims; the other but a foul and miry pit, o'erthrowing it in midst of its career.-Fanny Kemble Butler.

LUXURY.-Luxury makes a man so soft, that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.-Mackenzie.

Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.H. More.

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors; I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last-summer's butterfly? - H. W. Beecher.

Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state. -Livy.

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.-Joubert.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury, and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. -Bancroft.

It was a shrewd saying, whoever said it, "That the man who first brought ruin on the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.' Plutarch.

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.-Young.

Unless we are accustomed to them from early youth, splendid chambers and elegant furniture had best be left to people who neither have nor can have any thoughts.— Goethe.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury than by giving; you make them exert industry, whereas, by giving it, you keep them idle.-Johnson.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.-Home.

Oh brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not

what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.-Spurgeon.

O luxury! Thou curst of heaven's decree.-Goldsmith.

Were the labor and capital, now spent on pernicious luxuries, to be employed in the intellectual, moral, and religious culture of the whole people, how immense would be the gain, in every respect, though for a short time material products were diminished. A better age will look back with wonder and scorn on the misdirected industry of the present times.- Channing.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.--Shakespeare.

Luxury is the first, second, and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the life-blood of our veins.-Payson.

The more we accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge in those artificial delights which gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency.-M. Henry.

Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.— Johnson.

It is a shame that man, that has the seeds of virtue in him, springing into glory, should make his soul degenerate with sin, and slave to luxury; to drown his spirits in lees of sloth; to yield up the weak day to wine, to lust, and banquets.

Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.-John Adams.

He repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.-Quarles.

War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.-Crown.

Garrick showed Johnson his fine house, gardens, statues, pictures, etc., at Hampton Court." Ah! David, David," said the doctor. "these are the things that make death terrible."-Bate.