HAT we see depends mainly on what we look for.

-John Lubbock.

HAT helped you over the great obstacles of life?" was asked a successful man. "The other obstacles," he

love and win is the best thing;

To love and lose the next best.

-W. M. Thackeray.

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HEERFULNESS and content are great beautifiers and are

famous preservers of youthful looks.-Charles Dickens.

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WILL this day try to live a simple, sincere and serene life; repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity and the habit of holy silence; exercising economy in expenditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust and childlike trust in God. -John H. Vincent.

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ELIEVE in the better side of men. It is optimism that
really saves people.
-Ian Maclaren.

SHALL pass through this world but once. Any good

thing that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now-for I shall not pass this way again.

O ENTER Heaven a man must take it with him.

-Henry Drummond.

HE kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of
mind.
-John Burroughs.

DO the best I know. The very best I can; and I mean to

me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to any. thing. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

-Abraham Lincoln.

A PRAYER

OT more of light, I ask, O God,
But eyes to see what is;

Not sweeter songs, but power to hear
The present melodies.

Not greater strength, but how to use
The power that I possess;

Not more of love, but skill to turn
A frown to a caress.

Not more of joy, but power to feel
Its kindling presence near;

To give to others all I have
Of courage and of cheer.

Give me all fears to dominate,
All holy joys to know;
To be the friend I wish to be,

To speak the truth I know.

-Florence Holbrook.

NY one can carry his burden, however heavy, till night

fall. Any one can do his work, however hard, for one day. Any one can live sweetly, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

HE world is looking for the man who can do something, not for the man who can "explain" why he didn't do it.

RITE on your hearts that every day is the best day of
the year.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

RUE bravery is shown by performing without witnesses what one might be capable of doing before all the world. -La Rochefoucauld.

HE best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.

-The Talmud.

IS not the weight of jewel or plate,
Or the fondle of silk or fur;

'Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich,
As the gifts of the wise ones were;
And we are not told whose gift was gold,
Or whose was the gift of myrrh.

HE Indian says that when a man kills a foe the strength of the slain enemy passes into the victor's arm. In the weird fancy lies the truth. Each defeat leaves us weaker for the next battle, but each conquest makes us stronger. Nothing makes a prison to a human life, but a defeated, broken spirit. The bird in its cage that sings all the while is not a captive.

J. R. Miller.

BELIEVE in yourself, belleve in humanity, believe in the

success of your undertakings. Fear nothing and no one. Love your work. Work, hope, trust. Keep in touch with to-day. Teach yourself to be practical and up-to-date and sensible. You cannot fail!

GENIUS seems to be allied to immortal youth. Goethe

at eighty-four had the same deep interest in life that he felt at thirty or forty; and Gladstone at eighty-six was one of the most eager and aspiring men of his time.

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-Hamilton Wright Mabie.

CERTAIN amount of opposition is a great help to a man; kites rise against and not with the wind.

BLESSED is he who has found his work; let him ask no

other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! -Thomas Carlyle,

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ING HASSAN, well-beloved, was wont to say,
When aught went wrong, or any labor failed,
"To-morrow, friends, will be another day!"
And in that faith he slept, and so prevailed.

H! LET us fill our hearts up with the glory of the day, And banish ev'ry doubt and care and sorrow far away! For the world is full of roses, and the roses full of dew,

And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips for me and you. -James Whitcomb Riley.

AKE the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.