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stands on the foundation of morality.-H. W. Beecher.

There is very little virtue in any moral life which does not grow out of a sound theology; but there is absolutely no virtue in any theology which is not productive of sound moral life.

I have never found a thorough, pervading, enduring morality but in those who feared God.-Jacobi.

We deny the doctrine of the ancient Epicureans, that pleasure is the supreme good; of Hobbes, that moral rules are only the work of men's mutual fear; of Paley, that what is expedient is right, and that there is no difference among pleasures except their intensity and duration; and of Bentham, that the rules of human action are to be obtained by counting up the pleasures which actions produce.-And we imaintain with Plato, that reason has a natural and rightful authority over desire and affection; with Butler, that there is a difference of kind in our principles of action; and with the general voice of mankind, that we must do what is right at whatever cost of pain and loss.-What we ought to do, that we should do, and that we must do, though it bring pain and loss. And why? Because it is right.-W. Whewell.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.-Charles Hodge.

There are many that say, "Give us the morality of the New Testament; never mind about the theology." Aye, but you cannot get the morality without the theology, unless you like to have rootless flowers and lamps without oil. And if you want to live as Paul enjoins, you will have to believe as Paul preaches.

The divorcement of morals and piety is characteristic of all pagan religions.-D. J. Burrell.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.C. Sumner.

MORNING. The morning hour has gold in its mouth.-Franklin,

Sweet is the breath of morn; her rising sweet with charm of earliest birds.-Milton. The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness.-Shakespeare.

The morn is up again, the dewy morn, with breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, and glowing into day.-Byron.

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The silent hours steal on, and flaky darkness breaks within the east.-Shakespeare.

Let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time beyond the needs and conveniences of nature; and sometimes be curious to see the preparation the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers in the east.-Jeremy Taylor.

The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.-Gray.

Night is in her wane; day's early flush glows like a hectic on her fading cheek, wasting its beauty.-Longfellow.

Nor is a day lived, if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens.-A. B. Alcott.

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. -Bulwer.

Its brightness, mighty divinity! has a fleeting empire over the day, giving gladness to the fields, color to the flowers; the season of the loves; harmonious hour of wakening birds.-Calderon.

The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat awake the god of day.-Shakespeare.

I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions an angel might share. The long, slender bars of cloud float, like fishes, in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea.-I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches me, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.--Emerson.

Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops. -Shakespeare.

The glad sun, exulting in his might, comes from the dusky-curtained tents of night.-Emma C. Embury.

Morn in the white-wake of the morning star, came furrowing all the Orient into gold.-Tennyson.

But mighty nature bounds as from her birth: the sun is in the heavens, and life on earth; flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.-Byron.

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cities know anything about. Among all our good people, not one in a thousand sees the sun rise once in a year. They know nothing of the morning. Their idea of it is that it is that part of the day which comes along after a cup of coffee and a piece of toast. With them, morning is not a new issuing of light, a new bursting forth of the sun, a new waking-up of all that has life from a sort of temporary death, to behold again the works of God, the heavens and the earth; it is only a part of the domestic day, belonging to reading newspapers, answering notes, sending the children to school, and giving orders for dinner. The first streak of light, the earliest purpling of the east, which the lark springs up to greet, and the deeper and deeper coloring into orange and red, till at length the glorions sun is seen, regent of the day"this they never enjoy, for they never see it. I never thought that Adam had much the advantage of us from having seen the world while it was new. The manifestations of the power of God, like his mercies, are new every morning" and fresh every moment. We see as fine risings of the sun as ever Adam saw; and its risings are as much a miracle now as they were in his day-and, I think, a good deal more, because it is now a part of the miracle, that for thousands and thousands of years he has come to his appointed time, without the variation of a millionth part of a second. I know the morning-I am acquainted with it, and I love it. I love it fresh and sweet as it isa daily new creation, breaking forth and calling all that have life and breath and being to a new adoration, new enjoyments, and new gratitude.-Daniel Webster.

Now from night's gloom the glorious day breaks forth, and seems to kindle from the setting stars.-D. K. Lee.

In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.- Homer.

The morning, pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.-Longfellow.

Darkness is fled.-Now flowers unfold their beauties to the sun, and blushing, kiss the beam he sends to wake them.Sheridan.

The morning dawns with an unwonted crimson; the flowers more odorous seem; the garden birds sing louder, and the laughing sun ascends the gaudy earth with an unusual brightness; all nature smiles, and the whole world is pleased.-D. K. Lee. Night wanes; the vapors round the mountains curled, melt into morn, and light awakes the world.-Byron.

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Let the day have a blessed baptism by giving your first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.-The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day, H. W. Beecher.

Morn, like a maiden glancing o'er her pearls, streamed o'er the manna-dew, as though the ground were sown with starseed.-P. J. Bailey.

MOROSENESS.-There is no mockery like the mockery of that spirit which looks around in the world and believes that all is emptiness.-E. H. Chapin.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence. -Landor.

Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible, enjoy, in general, a greater share of dignity than of happiness.-Bacon.

The morose man takes both narrow and selfish views of life and the world; he is either envious of the happiness of others, or denies its existence.-C. Simmons.

MORTALITY.-(See "DEATH.")

All men think all mortal but themselves. -Young.

To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.-Fuller.

The good die first; and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket. Wordsworth.

Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life; a moan, a sigh, a sob, or a storm, a strife.Edwin Arnold.

The mortality of mankind is but a part of the process of living-a step on the way to immortality.-Dying, to the good man, is but a brief sleep, from which he wakes to the perfection and fullness of life in eternity. Tryon Edwards.

I congratulate you and myself, that life is passing fast away. What a superlatively grand and consoling idea is that of death! Without this radiant idea, life would, to my view, darken into midnight melancholy. Oh, the expectation of living here and living thus always, would be indeed a prospect of overwhelming despair! But thanks be to that fatal decree that dooms us to die, and to that Gospel which opens the vision of an endless life; and thanks, above all, to that Saviour Friend who has promised to conduct all the faithful through the sacred trance of death, into scenes of paradise and everlasting delight!-J. Foster.

Death is the crown of life; were it denied, to live would not be life, and even

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fools would wish to die.-Death wounds to cure; we fall to rise and reign; spring from our fetters; fasten in the skies.-Young.

Death is not to the Christian, what it has often been called, "Paying the debt of nature"; it is rather bringing a note to the bank to obtain solid gold for it.-You bring a cumbrous body which is nothing worth, and lay it down, and receive for it, from the eternal treasures, liberty, victory, knowledge, and rapture.-J. Foster.

Man wants but little, nor that little long. -How soon must he resign his very dust, which frugal nature lent him for an hour. -Young.

Consider the lilies of the field, whose bloom is brief.-We are as they; like them we fade away, as doth the leaf.-Rossetti.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.-Johnson.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, and all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, await alike the inevitable hour; the path of glory leads but to the grave.Gray.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods, to save their lives, which infallibly destroy them. This is a reflection made upon observing that there are more thousands killed in a flight, than in a battle; and may be applied to those multitudes of imaginary sick persons that break their constitutions by physic, and throw themselves into the arms of death, by endeavoring to escape it.-Addison.

MOTHER.-God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.Jewish saying.

There is in all this cold and hollow world no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart.-Mrs. Hemans.

When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother,-mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.-Luther.

Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother.-Bulwer.

I think it must somewhere be written, that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of the fathers.-Dickens.

Children, look in those eyes, listen to that dear voice, notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon you by that gentle hand! Make much of it while yet you have that most precious of all good gifts, a loving mother. Read the unfathomable love of those eyes; the kind anxiety of that tone and look, however slight your pain. In after life you may have friends, fond, dear friends, but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you, which none but a mother bestows.-Macaulay.

The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the base, degraded man.-George Eliot.

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.-Napoleon.

The mother in her office holds the key of the soul; and she it is who stamps the coin of character, and makes the being who would be a savage but for her gentle cares, a Christian man! Then crown her queen of the world.-Old Play.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.-C. Simmons.

Children are what the mothers are; no fondest father's fondest care can so fashion the infant's heart, or so shape the life.Landor.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.-Lincoln.

But one thing on earth is better than the wife, and that is the mother.-L. Schafer. Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable.-Richter.

The dignity, the grandeur, the tenderness, the everlasting and divine significance of motherhood.-De Witt Talmage.

All that I am my mother made me.—John Quincy Adams.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.-Spanish Proverb.

The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it.-De Beaufort.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of her child.-Richter.

It is the general rule, that all superior men inherit the elements of superiority from their mothers.-Michelet.

"What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to Madame Campan, "in order that the youth of France be well educated?"

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback, why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber.Emerson.

The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul.-Lamennais.

Say to mothers, what a holy charge is theirs; with what a kingly power their love might rule the fountains of the new-born mind.-Mrs. Sigourney.

I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.Lacretelie.

Observe how soon, and to what a degree, a mother's influence begins to operate! Her first ministration for her infant is to enter, as it were, the valley of the shadow of death, and win its life at the peril of her own! How different must an affection thus founded be from all others!-Mrs. Sigourney.

If there be aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a mother's love!-Marchiones de Spadara.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but is always on her heart.-H. W. Beecher.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him till it's too late to let her know that he sees it.-W. D. Howells.

A father may turn his back on his child; brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies; husbands may desert their wives, and wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.-Washington Irving.

The loss of a mother is always severely felt even though her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors

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to please, concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn.Lamartine.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, entrusted to the mother's mind alone, to fashion genius, form the soul for good, inspire a West, or train a Washington. -Mrs. Hale.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.-H. W. Beecher.

Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten,- -a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.-Ruffini.

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us.-Bovee.

Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss.-Pollok.

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers.Hook.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.-Napoleon.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?-T. W. Higginson.

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam.-Lord Langdale.

Happy he with such a mother! faith in womankind beats with his blood, and trust in all things high comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, he shall not blind his soul with clay.-Tennyson.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven.-E. H. Chapin.

Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of his mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought,-the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.-Longfellow.

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by

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heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but the best part of my taste for literature.-Ruskin.

MOTIVES.-Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.-Archibald Alexander.

We should often have reason to be ashamed of our most brilliant actions if the world could see the motives from which they spring. Rochefoucauld.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.-Bovee.

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, motives and dispositions hold the place of actions.-Blair.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show. -Colton.

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two Sources: one pure, the other impure.— Hare.

Acts are nothing except as they are fruits of a state, except as they indicate what the man is; words are nothing except as they express a mind or purpose.-F. D. Maurice.

Though a good motive cannot sanctify a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action.-In common and trivial matters we may act without motive, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.-W. Jay.

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good, and the fear of evil. -Johnson.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam, or a balloon without gas.-H. W. Beecher.

It is motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.-Bruyère.

It is not the incense, or the offering which is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshiper.-Seneca.

He that does good for good's sake, seeks neither praise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.-Penn.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.-Buddha.

Let the motive be in the deed and not in

the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.-Kreeshna.

Great actions, the luster of which dazzles us, are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design, whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion.-Rochefoucauld.

Our best conjectures, as to the true spring of actions, are very uncertain; the actions themselves are all we know from history. That Cæsar was murdered by twenty-four conspirators, I doubt not; but I very much doubt whether their love of liberty was the sole cause.-Chesterfield.

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great and good motive.-Rochefoucauld.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.-George Eliot.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or caloric, or lightning.-E. H. Chapin.

The morality of an action depends upon the motive from which we act.-Johnson.

Motives imply weakness, and the reasoning powers imply the existence of evil and temptation.--Angelic natures would act from impulse alone.- Coleridge.

The noblest motive is the public good.Virgil.

MURDER.-Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.-Chapman.

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero; numbers sanctify the crime.-Porteus.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body; the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.-Tryon Edwards.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; to murder thousands takes a specious namewar's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. -Young.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.-Daniel Webster.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.Maturin.

Murder itself is past all expiation the greatest crime, which nature doth abhor.Goffe.

MURMURING.-Murmur not at the ills you may suffer, but rather thank God