...From indolence, despondency, and indiscretion, may I specially be preserved. — John Quincy Adams. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character? — Thoreau. There cannot be a pleasant smile on the lips of the hopeless. The blow which crushes the...

...Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself." " Of what significance the things you can forget? A...expectations." " I ask to be melted. You can only a*k of the metals that they be tender to the fire that melts them. To nought else can they be tender."...

...but myself. The public persuade the author to print, as the meadow invites the brook to fall into it. Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations. April 17. When I was young and compelled to pass my Sunday in the house without the aid of interesting...

...as precise and simple as a mathematical one. I must not live loosely, but more and more continently. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character ? Already some of my small thoughts, fruit of my spring life, are ripe, like the berries which feed...

...that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities. — Walti. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed time of character. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. TO OUK READERS. \Vc shall...

...means essentially the same." " The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high." " How can we hare a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character? " " Let our meanness be our footstool, not our cushion." " Only that day dawns to which we are awake."...

...Afternoon. Flattery is a false coin which has circulation only through our vanity.—La Rochefoucauld. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character ? No trait of character is rarer, none more admirable, than thoughtful independence of the opinions...

...Afternoon. Flattery is a false coin which has circulation only through our vanity. — La Rochefoucauld. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character? No trait of character is rarer, none more admirable, than thoughtful independence of the opinions of...

...Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself." " Of what significance the things you can forget ? A...Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a faec of hronzc to expectations." " I ask to he melted. You can only ask of the metals that they be...

...lose their friend than their jest. T¡»H!'s gradual touch has mouldered into beauty many a tower. HOW can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character'' Experience is a pocket-compass that few think of consulting until they ha\e lost their way. YOU must...