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14. If God be our guide He will be our guard. -M. Henry.

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16. Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures.

Young.

17. Blessed is he who has the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. Thomas Hughes.

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Self-ease is pain; the only rest

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Is labor for a worthy end. Whittier.

19. There is nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth. Alice Carey.

20. Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him. - John Locke.

21. The only way to have a friend is to be one. R. W. Emerson.

22. The difference between one boy and another is not so much in talent as in energy. · Dr. Arnold.

23. Conviction is useless until it be converted into action.

Carlyle.

24. The drying up a single tear has more

Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.

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25. To measure life learn thou betimes, and know Towards solid good what leads the nearest way · Milton.

26. A moral, sensible, well-bred man

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Will not affront me, no other can. — Cowper. 27 The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches increases with the acquisition of it. Sterne.

28. It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy. Ruskin.

29. Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which we may spell character.

Lavater.

30. Doing an evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. Coleridge.

31. A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man.

-Young.

32. A noble heart, like the Sun, showeth its greateast countenance in its lowest estate. Sir P. Sidney.

33. The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough

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Carlyle.

34 A miser grows rich by seeming poor, an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. Shen

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35. The evening of life brings with it its lamps. Joubert.

36. Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offenses are written and registered. — Robert Burton.

37. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Richter.

38. Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good. M. Henry.

39. Good nature and good sense must ever join;

To err is human, to forgive divine. Pope. 40. Maintain your rank; vulgarity despise;

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise. 41. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. - Bible.

42. Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by law. Cicero.

43. Our country cannot well subsist without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. Rousseau.

44. The four cardinal virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice. - Paley.

45 Example is a living law, whose sway

Men more than all the written laws obey.

- C. Sedley.

46. He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. Lavater.

47. No man should so act as to take advantage of another's folly. Cicero.

48. True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.— Humphreys.

49. Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. - Augustine.

50. If you would create something you must be something. Goethe.

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