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commandments. --T.L. CUYLER.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden
from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the
burden.--PHILLIPS BROOKS.
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which
are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are
the very ones he needs.--RICHTER.
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.--GEORGE
MACDONALD.
Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance where they grow; But
crushed and trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
--GOLDSMITH.
Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility;
the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience,
and the promoter of charity.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of
extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary
graces.--MATTHEW HENRY.
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it
teaches.--BURGH.
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.--JOB 5:7.
Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue; Where patience, honor,
sweet humanity, Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish.
--MALLET AND THOMSON.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how
exquisite the bliss! --BURNS.
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the
chaff from the corn.--MOLINOS.
No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised thereby.--HEBREWS 12:11.
AGE.--No wise man ever wished to be younger.--SWIFT.
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without
emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to
gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader
and deeper upon the understanding.--LONGFELLOW.
It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no
fault committed that I have not committed myself.--GOETHE.
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men,
but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.--CICERO.
We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age
brings with it its own defects.--GOETHE.
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd,
and ate, and drank your fill; Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage. --POPE.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written
upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.--JAMES A.
GARFIELD.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.--VICTOR
HUGO.
Remember that some of the brightest drops in the chalice of life may
still remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kind Providence

gives us to drink, though near the bottom of the cup, may, as is said of
the draught of the Roman of old, have at the very bottom, instead of
dregs, most costly pearls.--W.A. NEWMAN.
Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.--SHAKESPEARE.
Few people know how to be old.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a
sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.--SWIFT.
The defects of the mind, like those of the countenance, increase with
age.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
He who would pass the declining years of his life with honor and
comfort, should when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember, when he is old, that he has once been
young.--ADDISON.
Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the
distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of our
enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eternity before
us.--RICHTER.
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing
for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old. --H.W.
SHAW.
AMBITION.--Most people would succeed in small things if they were
not troubled with great ambitions.--LONGFELLOW.
He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most
wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must
look down on the hate of those below. --SOUTHEY.
They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them; And if they fall,
they dash themselves to pieces. --SHAKESPEARE.
The path of glory leads but to the grave.--GRAY.

We should be careful to deserve a good reputation by doing well; and
when that care is once taken, not to be over anxious about the
success.--ROCHESTER.
Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear
and tear of heart are never recompensed,--it steals away the freshness
of life,--it deadens its vivid and social