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MEMORY GEMS.

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Attend carefully to details.

Best things are difficult to get.

Cultivate promptness and regularity.

Do not seek a quarrel.

Endure trials patiently.

Fight life’s battles bravely.

Tnjure no one’s reputation or business.

Join hands only with the virtuous.

Keep your mind from evil thoughts.

Learn to think and act for yourself.

Never try to appear what you are not.

Observe good manners. 3

Pay your debts promptly.

Respect your word as your bond.

Question no man’s veracity without
cause.

He who follows two hares is sure to

catch neither.

Zealously labor for the right.

Yield not to discouragements.

What is just and honorable, do.

He who fears God need not fear man.

Say “No” firmly and respectfully when
necessary.

Touch not, taste not, handle not the
cup which intoxicates.

Use your own brains rather than those
of others.

Virtue, not pedigree, is a sign of nobil-
ity.

Extend. to every one a kindly saluta-
tion.

Do good and throw it into the sea; if
the fish know it not the Lord will.

Falsehood may be a thick crust, but in
course of time truth will find a place to
break through.

VIRTUES THAT BRING SUCCESS.

WORKS.

LESSED is the man who has found
let him ask no other

his work;
blessedness. Know your work and do it,
and work at it like Hercules. One mon-

ster there is in the world—the idle man.

PERSEVERANCE.

ERSEVERANCE
equal genius in its results.

sometimes
“ There
are only two creatures,” says the Eastern

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proverb, “that can surmount the pyra-
mids—the eagle and the snail.”