It wins my admiration
To view the structure of this little work--
A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without;
No tool had he that wrought; no knife to cut,
No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert,
No glue to join; his little beak was all;
And yet how neatly finished!--What nice hand,
And every implement and means of art,
And twenty years' apprenticeship to boot,
Could make me such another? Fondly then
We boast of excellence, whose noblest skill
Instinctive genius foils.
--_Hurdis._
1439
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is
done, is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the
sun.
--_Ecclesiastes 1, 9v._
1440
He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news.
1441
The most ridiculous nicknames are often the most adhesive.
--_Haliburton._
1442
Coolness and counsel come in the night, and both are of God.
--_Arab Proverb._
1443
Quiet night, that brings
Rest to the laborer, is the outlaw's day,
In which he rises early to do wrong,
And when his work is ended, dares not sleep.
--_P. Massinger._
1444
Night is the time for rest;
How sweet, when labors close,
To gather 'round an aching breast
The curtain of repose.
Stretch the tir'd limbs and lay the head
Down on our own delightful bed!
--_Jas. Montgomery._
1445
Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to
read Latin.
--_Spurgeon._
1446
_Duty._--A wise man who does not assist with his counsels, a rich man
with his charity, and a poor man with his labor, are perfect nobodies in
a commonwealth.
--_Swift._
1447