Chapter 104
Where is there a sharper arrow than the sting of unmerited neglect?
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'Tis wisely said To know thyself: equally profitable it is To know thy neighbors!
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Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and to-morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
--_Proverbs 3, 28v._
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_Very Few Live by Choice._--Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly co-operate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
--_Dr. Johnson in Ra.s.selas._
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We ought to do at once and without delay whatever we owe to our neighbors; to make them wait for what is due to them, is the essence of injustice.
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A BIRD'S NEST.
It wins my admiration To view the structure of this little work-- A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without; No tool had he that wrought; no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join; his little beak was all; And yet how neatly finished!--What nice hand, And every implement and means of
--_Hurdis._
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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
--_Ecclesiastes 1, 9v._
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He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news.
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The most ridiculous nicknames are often the most adhesive.
--_Haliburton._
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Coolness and counsel come in the night, and both are of G.o.d.
--_Arab Proverb._
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Quiet night, that brings Rest to the laborer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended, dares not sleep.
--_P. Ma.s.singer._
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Night is the time for rest; How sweet, when labors close, To gather 'round an aching breast The curtain of repose.
Stretch the tir'd limbs and lay the head Down on our own delightful bed!
--_Jas. Montgomery._
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Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
--_Spurgeon._
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_Duty._--A wise man who does not a.s.sist with his counsels, a rich man with his charity, and a poor man with his labor, are perfect n.o.bodies in a commonwealth.
--_Swift._
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IMPORTANT.
n.o.body likes to be n.o.body; But everybody is pleased to think himself somebody.
And everybody is somebody: But when anybody thinks himself to be somebody, He generally thinks everybody else to be n.o.body.
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