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living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!
--LONGFELLOW.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the
world weigh less than a single lovely action.--LOWELL.
Prodigious actions may as well be done By weaver's issue, as by

prince's son. --DRYDEN.
It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and
vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the
poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the
dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.--CARLYLE.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with
graciousness, or oppose with firmness.--COLTON.
When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and
virtuous action is above all the scutcheons on our tomb, or silken
banners over us.--J. SHIRLEY.
Our acts make or mar us,--we are the children of our own deeds.
--VICTOR HUGO.
Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as
his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its
own reward.--WHIPPLE.
ADVERSITY.--Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been
productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the
hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the
darkest storm.--COLTON.
In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of
adversity only one.--HORATIUS BONAR.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds
rise above them.--WASHINGTON IRVING.
A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear
it cry; But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, As much, or
more, we should ourselves complain. --SHAKESPEARE.
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those
whom most he likes. --POMFRET.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.
--BOLINGBROKE.
On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet
instruction flows. --DR. YOUNG.
When Providence, for secret ends, Corroding cares, or sharp affliction,
sends; We must conclude it best it should be so, And not desponding or
impatient grow. --POMFRET.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
--PROVERBS 24:10.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous
circumstances, would have lain dormant.--HORACE.
In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most
troubled and distress'd. --CRABBE.
The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem
the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the
feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises
above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction.
--CHENEVIX.
There is healing in the bitter cup.--SOUTHEY.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the
blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the
clearer revelation of God's favor.--BACON.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's
disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.--LYTTON.
Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.--HEBREWS 12:6.
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and
smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
--CHAPIN.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a
state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to
virtue.--SCHILLER.
AFFECTATION.--Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of
many a comparatively wise man.
We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as
by those which we aim at, or affect to have.--FROM THE FRENCH.
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. --ST.
EVREMOND.
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear
rich.--LAVATER.
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
--HORACE MANN.
AFFECTION.--A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--DICKENS.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
--COLOSSIANS 3:2.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of
the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly
restrained love will die at the roots.--HAWTHORNE.
A solitary blessing few can find, Our joys with those we love are
intertwined, And he whose wakeful tenderness removes The
obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves, Smooths not
another's rugged path alone, But scatters roses to adorn his own.
Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant spot
on the surface of the globe.
Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the
beating of a loving heart.--BEECHER.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels
the ministry of ill, it is human love.--WILLIS.
AFFLICTION.--God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with
tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His