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GATHERED GEMS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 38.

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GATHERED GEMS.

TIME to me this truth has taught ('Tis a treasure worth revealing), More offend by want of thought Than by any want of feeling. —Charles Swain.
BETTER to stem with heart and hand The roaring tide of life than lie Unmindful, on its flowery strand, Of God's occasions drifting by. —Whittier.
FULL many a day forever is lost By delaying its work till to-morrow; The minutes of sloth have often cost Long years of bootless sorrow. —Eliza Cook.
"If aught good thou canst not say Of thy brother, foe, or friend, Take thou, then, the silent way, Lest in word thou shouldst offend."
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: my crown is called content; A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. —Shakespeare.