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IN the heraldry of heaven, goodness precedes greatness. Bishop Horne.

GOODNESS, aspersed by slander, may be compared to that finely-tempered steel which, though dimmed for a moment by the breath, presently reappears in all its accustomed brilliancy.

UNDER A DRAWING OF A
WALL-FLOWER.

DELIGHTFUL flower, whose fair and fragrant bloom
Tinges with beauty many a mouldering tower;
Lending a grace to its declining doom,

Beyond the splendor of its proudest hour.

What art thou like? The cheerful smile of those Whose eyes are dim with years, whose locks are grey;

The tranquil brightness of whose evening shows
They gave to God the morning of their day.
Bernard Barton.

THE moon looks on many flowers; the flowers see but one moon.

Persian Proverb.

USE OF TEARS.

BE not thy tear too harshly chid,
Repine not at the rising sigh;
Who if they might would always bid
The breast be still, the cheek be dry.

How little of ourselves we know,
Before a grief the heart has felt;
The lessons that we learn of woe,
May brace the mind as well as melt.

The energies too stern for mirth,

The reach of thought, the strength of will,
Mid cloud and tempest have their birth,
Thro' blight and blast their course fulfil.

Love's perfect triumph never crown'd
The hope unchequer'd by a pang;

The gaudiest wreaths with thorns are bound,
And Sapho wept before she sang.

Tears at each pure emotion flow,
They wait on pity's gentle claim,
On admiration's fervid glow,
On piety's seraphic flame.

'Tis only when it mourns and fears,
The loaded spirit feels forgiven;

And thro' the mist of falling tears

We catch the clearest glimpse of heaven.
Lord Morpeth.

THERE is in friendship what we find in fine painting a good keeping, a quietude and unity, a ripeness. There the mellowed tints of autumn produce more effect than all the high coloring of the noon-tide scenes. There it is enchanting to study and to contemplate, to examine and to pursue; there the detail is perfect, while in the

blaze of more empassioned gazing the lights overpower, the defects are unperceived, the eye cheats the heart,-all is admiration or disgust, ectasy or agony. But true friendship is an engraving on the tablets of the mind which grows richer and more interesting by time.

Rev. A. Murray.

THE human heart is like heaven-the more angels, the more room. Frederika Bremer.

My friend, hast thou ever thought how pleasant and altogether lovely would be a life of entire sincerity married to perfect love? The wildest stories of magic skill, or fairy power, could not equal the miracles that would be wrought by such a life; for it would change this hollow masquerade of veiled and restless souls into a place of divine communion.

L. M. Child.

WHAT Comforts me is, that souls know no distance; for, by the ties of religion and of the heart, we are always neighbors to one another. Ganganelli.

THE accents of those we love soften the harshest tidings.

G. Crayon, "The Wife."

YES, love indeed is light from heav'n,
With angels shared, by Alla given;
A spark of that immortal fire

To lift from earth our low desire,
Devotion wafts the mind above,
And heaven itself descends in love;
A feeling from the Godhead caught,
To wean from life each sordid thought;
A ray of him who formed the whole
A glory circling round the soul.

Byron.

LOVE one human being purely and warmly, and you will love all. The heart in this heaven, like the wandering sun, sees nothing from the dew-drop to the ocean but a mirror which it warms and fills.

Jean Paul Richter.

Он how easy the practice of virtue appears to those who love ! He who knows how to love is strong, is just, is chaste, can undertake every thing, and suffer every thing. The soul of true lovers is like a holy temple, in which incense incessantly burns; in which every voice speaks of God, and every hope is of immortality.

Aimé Martin.

LOVE, labor, religion,-these are life, liberty, and joy, these are happiness; and who can say, who only fulfils his duty as a man, that

his field of action is confined? The effect and the extension of every pure action are incalculable. Frederika Bremer.

THE ostentatious display of prosperity is an insult upon the unfortunate. Marmontel.

PRAISE to generous minds is the germ and the aliment to emulation.

Ibid.

THERE is something in the noble frankness of a truly great mind, that wherever it appears it is enough to dispel all suspicion and mistrust.

Ibid.

THEY only are invincible who are as ready to die as live; and no one can be firm in that principle whose exemplary life is not a happy preparation for the awful change.

Miss Porter.

WHEREVER there is a fixed resolution of conformity to the will of God in general, there will never be wanting a due support in every particular trial.

Mrs. Carter.

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