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 And ideal thoughts 
 
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 Robertson . Beecher 
 
 Hamilton . Etc. 
 
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O be glad of life because it gives 
 you the chance to love and to 
 work and play and to look up 
 at the stars. To be satisfied 
 with your possessions, but not 
 contended with yourself until 
 you have made the best of them. To despise 
 nothing in the world except falsehood and mean- 
 ness, and to fear nothing except cowardice. To 
 be governed by your admirations rather than 
 by your disgusts ; to covet nothing that is your 
 neighbor's except his kindness of heart and 
 gentleness of manners. To think seldom of your 
 enemies, often of your friends, and every day of 
 Christ ; and to spend as much time as you can, 
 with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors. 
 These are little guide-posts on the footpath to 
 peace. 
 
 — Henry van Dyke 
 
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 F there be some weaker 
 one, 
 Give me strength to help 
 
 him on; 
 If a blinder soul there be 
 Let me guide him nearer Thee ; 
 Make my mortal dreams come true 
 With the work I fain would do; 
 Clothe with life the weak intent, 
 Let me be the thing I meant ; 
 Let me find in Thy employ, 
 Peace that dearer is than joy ; 
 Out of self to love be led, 
 And to Heaven acclimated, 
 Until all things sweet and good 
 Seem my natural habitude. 
 
 — /. G. WMttier 
 
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 ET me to-day do some- 
 thing that shall take 
 A little sadness from 
 the world's vast store, 
 And may I be so fa- 
 vored as to make 
 
 Of joy's too scanty sum a little 
 more. 
 
 ~E. IV. Wilcox 
 
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UARD well within your- 
 self that treasure, kind- 
 ness. Know how to give 
 without hesitation, how to 
 lose without regret, how 
 to acquire without meanness. 
 
 — George Sand 
 
AM quite sure that one 
 secret of youth is to keep 
 up with determined and 
 steady hand, one's own 
 tone, to avoid ruts and 
 
 narrowing circles. 
 
 —F. IV. Ware 
 
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 T is not what a man gets, 
 
 but what a man is, that 
 
 he should think of. He 
 
 should first think of his 
 
 character, and then of his 
 
 condition. He that has character need 
 
 have no fear of his condition. Character 
 
 will draw conditions after it. 
 
 —H. W. Beechcr 
 

 HE little worries which we 
 meet each day, 
 May be as stumbling- 
 blocks across our 
 way, 
 Or we may make them stepping stones 
 
 to be 
 Of grace, O Lord to Thee. 
 
 — A, E, Hamilton 
 
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 ET the weakest, let the 
 humblest remember that 
 in his daily course he can, 
 if he will, shed around him 
 almost a heaven. Kindly 
 words, sympathizing attentions, watch- 
 fulness against wounding men's sen- 
 sitiveness — these cost very little but they 
 are priceless in their value. 
 
 — F» W. Robertson 
 
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 F any little word of ours can 
 make one life the brighter; 
 If any little song of ours 
 can make one heart the 
 lighter ; 
 God help us speak that little word, and 
 
 take our bit of singing, 
 And drop it in some lonely vale, and set 
 the echoes ringing. 
 
EXPECT to pass through 
 
 this life but once. If, 
 
 therefore, there is any 
 
 kindness I can show, or 
 
 any good I can do to any 
 
 fellow-being, let me do it now, let me not 
 
 defer it, for I shall not pass this way 
 
 again* 
 
 — Mrs. A. B. Hegeman 
 

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 OU will find as you look 
 back upon your life that 
 the moments that stand 
 out, the moments when 
 you have really lived, are 
 the moments when you have done things 
 in a spirit of love. 
 
 — Henry Drummond 
 
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