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MONTAIGNE-Essays. Bk. I.

Ch. XXVI. Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such, Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. 0. POPE--Essay on Criticism. Line 385. Like to the time o' the year between the extremes Of hot and cold: he was nor sad nor merry. p. Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 1. Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,

But always resolute in most extremes. 1. Henry VI. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1.

Where two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that feeds their fury:

Though little fire grows great with little

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A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

a. GEORGE ELIOT-The Mill on the Floss. Bk. IV. Ch. XIV.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy.

b. EMERSON--Conduct of Life. Behavior.

Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

C. EMERSON-Conduct of Life. Behavior.

Eyes so transparent,

That through them one sees the soul. THEOPHILE GAUTIER-To Two

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The heaven of April, with its changing light. 0. LONGFELLOW-The Spirit of Poetry.

Line 45.

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True eyes

Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise
The sweet soul shining through them.
T. OWEN MEREDITH-Lucile. Pt. II.
Canto II. St. 3.
Ladies, whose bright eyes

Rain influence.
8. MILTON L'Allegro. Line 121.
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

t. MILTON-Il Penseroso. Line 40.
The world's so rich in resplendent eyes,
"Twere a pity to limit one's love to a pair.
u. MOORE'Tis Sweet to Think.
Violets, transform'd to eyes
Inshrined a soul within their blue.
2. MOORE-Evenings in Greece.

Second Evening..

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
0. BAILEY--Festus. Prom. Line 84.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment to hing religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

p. HOSEA BALLOU-MSS. Sermons. Poor man! where art thou now? thy day is night.

Good man, be not cast down, thou yet art right,

Thy way to Heaven lies by the gates of Hell;
Cheer up, hold out, with thee it shall go well.
1.
BUNYAN-Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. I.

We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly-faith in God. r. CHAS. KINGSLEY- Health and Education.

"Patience!"

prayer will be answered!

On Bio-Geology. have faith, and thy

8. LONGFELLOW-Evangeline. Pt. II.

I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless:
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitter-

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