Before me on the mantel-block,
There ticks a busy little clock--
The measurer of time.
It never stops or tries to shirk;
Unceasingly it plies its work
With zeal almost sublime.
Oh could I work as steadily,
Oh could I just as faithful be,
As this minute machine--
My life would be filled with success,
with industry,
with usefulness,
and happiness serene.
_M. in Hampden-Sidney Magazine._
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I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the
clergyman who makes it an easy life.
--_Dr. Johnson._
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A clergyman should never come tired before his people, but rather like
an engine when it leaves the round-house, oiled, equipped with fuel and
water, and with all its strength waiting to be put forth.
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In his last annual report, President Eliot states that the average age
of students entering Harvard is eighteen years of age and ten months. He
then intimates that if students could be induced to enter college
earlier, as they did in Emerson's time, there would be fewer failures.
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When musing on companions gone
We doubly feel ourselves alone.
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"Aye gang (always go) wi' them that's better than yerself."
--_Old Scotch Saying._
If this was done generally, there would be a levelling up, instead of a
levelling down.
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Pleasant company shortens the miles.
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