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MEMORY GEMS.

 

TO THE BOYS.

ie you count the sunny and cloudy days
of the whole year, you will find that
the sunshine predominates.
ROSS, insinuating. or reproachful
words hurt worse than the cut of a
knife, and will be longer in healing.
eee the truth—the open, bold, honest
truth —always the wisest, always
the safest, for every one in any and all

circumstances.
ULTIVATE forbearance till your |
heart yields a fine crop of it. Pray

for a short memory as to all unkind-
nesses.— Spurgeon.
Ce) manners are a part of every

little: boy’s and girl’s education.
Without them you will not be loved or
welcomed among others.

EMEMBRER, boys, that ten thousand

of the greatest faults in our neigh-

bors are of less consequence to us than
one of the smallest in ourselves.

WWeee is there whom contact with a

great soul will not exault? A

drop of water upon the petal of a lotus
glistens with the splendors of the pearl.

aeaeee are four good mothers who:

have four bad daughters: Truth

hath hatred; prosperity hath pride; security

hath peril, and familiarity hath contempt.

PAs say ‘Yes, sir,” “No, sir,”

“Yes, father,” ‘No, mother,”
“Thank you,” ‘Good night,” “Good
morning,” “Excuse me.” Use no slang

words.

‘HERE is this difference between hap-
piness and wisdom—he that thinks
himself the happiest man is really 0,
but he that thinks himself the wisest is

generally the greatest fool.

ABE art of forgetting is hard to learn

where it is most in request. Itis the
happy past that makes a happy present,
and together they give pledge of a happy
future—a threefold cord which is not easily
broken.

BES the Breton mariner goes out

to sea, his prayer is, “Keep me,
my God; my boat is so small, and Thy
ocean is so wide.” Does not this beauti-
ful prayer truly express the condition of
each of us?

INES be not ashamed of an humble

home or an humble occupation;
be not ashamed of poverty, or even of a
small amount of natural endowments; but
you may well be ashamed of misspent time
and misdirected talents.

a) O38 come to us like blossoms, and we
think we have them; and then when,