Fragile is beauty: with advancing years
'Tis less and less, and, last, it disappears.
Your hair too, fair one, will turn grey and thin;
And wrinkles furrow that now rounded skin;
Then brace the mind and thus beauty fortify,
The mind alone is yours, until you die.
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Beauty without kindness dies unenjoyed and undelighting.
--_Johnson._
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O bed! Delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head!
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Generally men are ready to believe what they desire.
--_Caesar._
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The kindest benefactors have no recollection of the good they do, and
are surprised when men thank them for it.
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A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading
fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful and more honorable to give
than receive.
--_Epicurus._
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There is no benefit so small, that a good man will not magnify it.
--_Seneca._
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To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty.
--_Laberius._
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He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows one
should never remember it.
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To act always from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings.
Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other
motive.
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Bereavement makes the heart tender and sympathetic.
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If you wish to become acquainted with your betrothed, travel with him
for a few days--especially if he is accompanied with his own folks--and
take your mother along.
--_Unknown._
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The Bible is
The Index to Eternity;
He can not miss
Of endless bliss
That takes this chart to steer his voyage by.
--_Herbert._
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The following lines of Sir Walter Scott are said to have been copied in
his Bible:
Within this awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries.
Oh! happiest they of human race,
To whom our God has given grace
To hear, to read, to fear, to pray,
To lift the latch, and force the way;
But better had they ne'er been born
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Remember, that in prayer, you are speaking to God; that in reading the
Bible, God is speaking to you.
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