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Work is of a religious nature, work is of a brave nature, which it is the aim of all religion to be. "All work of man is as the swimmer's." A waste ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word. By incessant wise defiance of it, lusty rebuke and buffet of it, behold how it loyally supports him, - bears him as its conqueror along! "It is so," says Goethe, "with all things that man undertakes in this world." Carlyle.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.—Locke.

He that knows a little of the world will admire it enough to fall down and worship it; but he that knows it most will most despise it. Colton.

The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.—Sir P. Sidney.

Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited; the world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse.-Mackenzie.

We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it.-Baron Wessenberg.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.-Bovee.

What is this world? Thy school, O misery! Our only lesson is to learn to suffer.-Young.

Work is the only universal currency which God accepts. A nation's welfare will depend on its ability to master the world; that, on He who imagines he can do without the power of work; that, on its power of thought.-world deceives himself much; but he who fanTheodore Parker. cies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.-Rochefoucauld.

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All men, if they work not as in a great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, work unhappily for themselves and you.-Carlyle.

God is a worker. He has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur. God is love; he yet shall wipe away Creation's tears, and all the worlds shall summer in his smile. Why work I not? the veriest mote that sports its one-day life within the sunny beam has its stern duties. Alexander Smith.

The true epic of our times is, not arms and the man, but tools and the man, - an infinitely wider kind of epic.-Carlyle.

WORLD.

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.-Vauvenargues.

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge is terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.-Quar'es.

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Trust not the world, for it never payeth that promiseth.-St. Augustine.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.—Southey.

The world is all title-page without contents.
Young.

Once kick the world, and the world and you live together at a reasonable good understanding.-Swift.

The great see the world at one end by flattery, the little at the other end by neglect; the meanness which both discover is the same; but how different, alas! are the mediums through which it is seen!-Lord Greville.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance, by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.-Emerson.

For the fashion of this world passeth away. Bible.

We did not make the world, but we may mend it, and must live in it. We shall find that it abounds with fools who are too dull to be employed, and knaves who are too sharp; | The compound character is most common, and is that with which we shall have the most to do. Colton. The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.Sir Walter Raleigh.

We may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treats ill deserve entirely the treatment they get. The world is a lookingglass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

Thackeray. Count the world not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live in, but to die in.

Colton.

I am not at all uneasy that I came into, and have so far passed my course in this world; because I have so lived in it that I have reason to believe I have been of some use to it; and when the close comes, I shall quit life as I would an inn, and not as a real home. For nature appears to me to have ordained this station here for us, as a place of sojournment, a transitory abode only, and not as a fixed settlement or permanent habitation.-Cicero.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; a stage, where every man must play a part, and mine a sad one.-Shakespeare.

We are to avoid the danger, rather than to oppose it. This is a great doctrine of Scrip

ture.

An active force against the world is not so much inculcated as a retreating, declining spirit. Keep thyself unspotted from the world. Cecil.

WORLDLINESS.

It has been well said that there is a sin of other-worldliness no less than a sin of worldliness, and Christendom has had a large measure of the former sin as well as of the latter. People have been taught so much about preparing for heaven that they have sometimes become very indifferent workers on earth, and in anticipating the joys of the future world have overlooked the infinite possibilities for good in the world that now is.-W. J. Potter.

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The act of worship is among all creation indigenous and peculiar to man. As he alone stands erect and raises his front without effort toward heaven, so he bends the knee in reasoning adoration, neither cowering down with his head in the dust, nor grovelling on his belly like other creatures, in abject fear; but, wanton, unstable, and extravagant even in his noblest aspirations, this viceroy of earth has been ever prone to waver in his allegiance, eager to amplify his worship of the one true God into a thousand false religions, more or less beautiful, poetical, and absurd.-G. J. W. Melville.

WORTH.

An incurable itch of scribbling clings to Worth begets in base minds envy; in great many, and grows inveterate in their distemsouls, emulation.-Fielding. pered breast.-Juvenal.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.-Lavater.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow.-Pope.

Real worth requires no interpreter; its everyday deeds form its blazonry.-Chamfort.

WRITING.

If you would write to any purpose, you must be perfectly free from within. Give your self the natural rein; think on no pattern, no patron, no paper, no press, no public; think on nothing, but follow your impulses. Give yourself as you are, what you are, and how you see it. Every man sees with his own eyes, or does not see at all. This is incontrovertibly true. Bring out what you have. If you have nothing, be an honest beggar, rather than a respectable thief.-Emerson.

Look, then, into thine heart and write! —
Longfellow.

The difference betwixt a witty writer and a writer of taste is chiefly this: the former is negligent what ideas he introduces, so he joins them surprisingly; the latter is principally careful what images he introduces, and studies simplicity rather than surprise in his manner of introduction.-Shenstone.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.Wordsworth.

Devise, wit! write, pen! for I am for whole volumes in folio.-Shakespeare.

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.-Emerson.

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Writing grows a habit, like a woman's gallantry; there are women who have had no intrigue, but few who have had but one only; so there are millions of men who have never written a book, but few who have written only one. Byron.

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.-Sterne.

The small reckoning I have seen made, especially in their lifetime, of excellent wits bids me advise that, if you find any delight in writing, to go on; but, in hope to please or satisfy others, I would not black the end of a quill. Long experience has taught me that builders always, and writers for the most part, spend their money and time in the purchase of reproof and censure from envious contemporaries or self-conceited posterity.-F. Osborn.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.—Joubert.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.WRONG.

Montesquieu.

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.—

Rivarol.

There is no God dare wrong a worm.

Emerson.

To revenge a wrong is easy, usual, and natural, and, as the world thinks, savors of nobleness of mind; but religion teaches the contrary, and tells us it is better to neglect than to requite it.-J. Beaumont.

He who commits a wrong will himself inev itably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.-Tupper.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Landor.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.-Rochefoucauld.

We make ourselves more injuries than are offered to us; they many times pass for wrongs in our own thoughts, that were never meant so by the heart of him that speaketh. The appre hension of wrong hurts more than the sharpest part of the wrong done.-Feltham.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.-Theodore Parker.

YEARNINGS.

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Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep, - we are on the death-bed.-Bulwer Lytton.

YOUTH.

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.-Rückert.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.-Cicero.

Youth is beautiful. Its friendship is precious. The intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.- Willis.

Youthful rashness skips like a hare over the meshes of good counsel.-Shakespeare.

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.-J. Hawes.

Youth is the gay and pleasant spring of life, when joy is stirring in the dancing blood, and Nature calls us with a thousand songs to share her general feast.-Ridgway.

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In the species with which we are best acquainted, namely, our own, I am far, even as an observer of human life, from thinking that youth is its happiest season, much less the only happy one.-Paley.

My salad days, when I was green in judgment.-Shakespeare.

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.-Johnson.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.-Bible.

Young people, at their entrance upon the world, should be either bashful or giddy; a composed self-sufficiency generally turns to impertinence.-Rochefoucauld.

Youth should be a savings-bank.

Madame Swetchine.

The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the own opinions, and value others' that deserve it. brim ! -Byron. Sir W. Temple.

In the morning of our days, when the senses are unworn and tender, when the whole man is awake in every part, and the gloss of novelty fresh upon all the objects that surround us, how lively at that time are our sensations, but how false and inaccurate the judgments we form of things! -Burke.

Youth, when thought is speech and speech is truth.-Walter Scott.

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the their first newness, but cannot stand the sun fever of reason.-Rochefoucauld.

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and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing-day.-Hawthorne.

The golden age never leaves the world; it exists still, and shall exist, till love, health, poetry, are no more, - but only for the young. Bulwer Lytton.

It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.— Cicero.

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful; and I am afraid that, whether married or unmarried, we shall find the vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy and cumbrous the longer it is worn.-Steele.

Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then expect too much, and we are therefore exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications. When we are a little older, and have brought down our wishes to our experience, then we become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves.Lord Liverpool.

Like virgin parchment, capable of any inscription.-Massinger.

O the joy of young ideas painted on the mind, in the warm, glowing colors fancy spreads on objects not yet known, when all is new and all is lovely!-Hannah More.

The fairest flower in the garden of creation is a young mind, offering and unfolding itself to the influence of Divine Wisdom, as the heliotrope turns its sweet blossoms to the sun.Sir J. E. Smith.

He felt, with indescribable strength and sweetness, that the lovely time of youth is our Italy and Greece, full of gods, temples, and bliss; and which, alas! so often Goths and Vandals stalk through, and strip with their talons. Richter.

Youth will never live to age, without they keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. Too much thinking doth consume the spirits; and oft it falls out, that while one thinks too much of doing, he leaves to do the effect of his thinking.Sir P. Sidney. Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Goethe.

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.-Juvenal.

Youth no less becomes the light and careless livery that it wears, than settled age his sables and his weeds, importing health and graveness. Shakespeare.

It is with youth as with plants; from the first fruits they bear we learn what may be expected in future.-Demophilus.

Let youth cherish the happiest of earthly boons while yet it is at its command; for there cometh a day to all "when neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fall on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.-Bulwer Lytton.

Youth holds no society with grief.—

Euripides.

The camomile, the more it is trodden, the faster it grows; yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.-Shakespeare.

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