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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 6, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 6.

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WHEREVER shame is, there is also fear. Those who are loving and lovable will surely be loved.
MUCH that we lament as change, we find, after thinking closer, is only development.
THEY who true joy would win Must share it; happiness is born a twin.—Byron.
THERE are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
THE greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found out by accident.—Lamb.
SILENCE is the perfect herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.—Shakespeare.
PHILOSOPHY triumphs easily enough over past and future evils, but present evils triumph over philosophy.
To do good to men is the great work of life; to make them true Christians is the greatest good we can do them.
AFFLICTION is the divine school of virtue; it corrects levity, interrupts the confidence of sinning, and purifies the heart.
THERE is in man a higher than love of happiness. He can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
SHOW me the man who would go to Heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.
NOTHING is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life; nothing is great or desirable if it is off and away from that.
THE mind of youth cannot remain empty; if you do not put into it that which is good, it will gather elsewhere that which is evil.
“WHAT I have known,” says Dr. Priestly, “with respect to myself has tended much to lessen my admiration and my contempt for others.”
FISHERMEN, in order to handle eels securely, cover them with dirt. In like manner does education strive to grasp excellence.—Douglas Jerrold.
It is a row of empty houses that gets all its windows broken; and empty heads and empty hearts, and empty hands, are sure to come to grief.
WE were designed in the cradle, perhaps earlier, and it is in finding out this design, and shaping ourselves to it, that our years are spent wisely.—Lowell.
WRITE it on your heart that every day is the best in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is doomsday.—Emerson.
An irreligious man, a speculative or practical atheist, is as a sovereign who voluntarily takes off his crown and declares himself unworthy to reign.—Blackie.
SELF-LOVE is a medium of a peculiar kind; it magnifies everything which is amiss in others, at the same time that it lessens everything amiss in ourselves.
GRANT me, ever to esteem the wise man as the alone wealthy man; and as for gold, may I possess as much of it as a man of moderate desires may know to use wisely.—Socrates.
An old Hindoo, who had become a Christian, first had a Bible given him and then a clock. Said he: “The clock will tell me how time goes, and the Bible will teach me how to spend it.”