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the spirit of Christ. --ROMAINE.
It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any
mixture of error, for its matter: it is all pure, all sincere, nothing too
much, nothing wanting.--LOCKE.
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every
district--all studied and appreciated as they merit--are the principal
support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.--FRANKLIN.
Here there is milk for babes, whilst there is manna for angels; truth
level with the mind of a peasant; truth soaring beyond the reach of a
seraph.--REV. HUGH STOWELL.
It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served
me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital
safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have
sometimes made but a bad use of it.--GOETHE.
BIGOTRY.--All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.--POPE.
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.--CHAPIN.
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who
believes there is no virtue but on his own side.--ADDISON.
Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in
that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into
heaven.--FELTHAM.
BIOGRAPHY.--The great lesson of biography is to show what man

can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an
inspiration to others.--SAMUEL SMILES.
Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have
risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence
and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency
is to reproduce the excellence it records.--HORACE MANN.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to
continue in a state of childhood all our days.--PLUTARCH.
BOASTING.--Where there is much pretension, much has been
borrowed; nature never pretends.--LAVATER.
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.--YOUNG.
A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk will speak more in a minute
than he will stand to in a month.--SHAKESPEARE.
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to
acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own
actions.--ÆSCHINES.
The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of
it.--BACON.
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not
of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth.
--SHAKESPEARE.
BOOKS.--When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates
languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, books only continue
the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true
friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted
sorrow.--WASHINGTON IRVING.
No book can be so good as to be profitable when negligently read.
--SENECA.

He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age, will
hardly love them enough afterward to understand
them.--CLARENDON.
I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy
feeling, when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among
horses.--O.W. HOLMES.
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their
feelings--as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by
their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the
purchaser.--LONGFELLOW.
Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing
companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both
continents would not compensate for the good they
impart.--CHANNING.
We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put fire into
their works would only consent to put their works into the
fire.--COLTON.
Books, dear books, Have been, and are my comforts; morn and night,
Adversity, prosperity, at home, Abroad, health, sickness--good or ill
report, The same firm friends; the same refreshment rich, And source of
consolation. --DR. DODD.
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and
courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by; it is
good, and made by a good workman.--LA BRUYÈRE.
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support
us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves.
They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our
cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we
are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of
peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.--JEREMY
COLLIER.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he
that studies men will know how things are.--COLTON.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; the
rest are confounded with the multitude.--VOLTAIRE.
Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the
refreshing rain