Life and Literature Part 152

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The world does not seem to care for honorable lives as much as it does for a good bank-account.

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He who would enjoy many friends, and live happy in the world, must often be deaf, dumb, and blind, to its vices and follies.

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IMPORTANCE OF ATTENDING PUBLIC WORs.h.i.+P.

Said the Rev. W. J. Dawson: "I know in my own heart how soon the spirit of devoutness fades when from any cause I am deprived of public wors.h.i.+p for any length of time. And when I see a youth to whom religious wors.h.i.+p has been the atmosphere of his childhood, gradually withdrawing himself from the means of grace, I tremble for him, because I have seen what that means. I can think of men whom I loved, and who now lead wretched and degraded lives, and all their misery began when they forsook the tabernacles of their G.o.d."

2111

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

--_Proverbs xv, 1v._

2112

Call not that man wretched, who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

--_Southey._

2113

A good life keeps off wrinkles.

--_German._

2114

What is writ, is writ-- Would it were worthier.

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HANDWRITING--NATIONALITY OF.

It is a remarkable fact, that no man can ever get rid of the style of handwriting peculiar to his country. If he be English, he always writes in English style; if French, in French style; if German, Italian, or Spanish, in the style peculiar to his nation. Professor B---- states:--"I am acquainted with a Frenchman, who has pa.s.sed all his life in England, who speaks English like one of our own countrymen, and writes it with ten times the correctness of ninety-nine in a hundred of us; but yet who cannot, for the life of him, imitate our mode of writing. I knew a Scotch youth, who was educated entirely in France, and resided eighteen years in that country, mixing exclusively with French people, but who, although he had a French writing-master, and, perhaps, never saw anything but French writing in his life, or rarely, yet wrote exactly in the Scotch style."

--_D'Israeli._

2116

The word that is heard, pa.s.ses away; the letter that is written,--remains.

2117

Every time you avoid doing wrong, You increase your inclination to do right.

2118

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

2119

My ear is pained, my soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

--_Cowper._

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_Yankee._--The word Yankee is believed to have been derived from the manner in which the Indians endeavored to p.r.o.nounce the word English, which they rendered Yenghees, whence the word Yankee.

--_From "Milledulcia."_

2121

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

--_Burton._

2122

How often it is like autumn leaves, many hopes and ambitions that yesterday were bright and strong, are now, alas, dead!

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