4 ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS

You and the Past

EVEBY ship that goes to America gets its chart from Columbus,
Every novel is a debtor to Homer. Every carpenter who
shaves with a foreplane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor.
Life is girt all round with the contributions of men who have perished
to add their point of light to our sky. Emerson

A People Great and Strong

NOT gold, but only men can make
A people great and strong ;
Men who for truth and honour's sake

Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others sleep,

Who dare while others fly—
They build a nation's pillars deep
And lift them to the sky, Emerson

Two Men in the Dark

r-pHEY tell you in London the story of the Frenchman and English-
J. man who quarrelled. Both were unwilling to fight, but their
companions put them up to it. At last it was agreed that they should
fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols.

The candles were put out, and the Englishman, to make sure not
to hit anybody, fired up the chimney, and brought down the Frenchman,

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England's Place on the Earth

ENGLAND resembles a ship in its shape ; and, if it were one, its
best admiral could not have worked it, or anchored it in a move
judicious or effective position. The shopkeeping nation, to use a
shop word, has a good stand. England is anchored at the side of
Europe, right in the heart of the modern world,

The Company of the Wise
what you have in the smallest chosen library.
\^f A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be
picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have set in best
order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves
were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced
by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their
bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the
strangers of another age.

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The Secret Life
T is a wonderful fact to reflect upon that every human creature is
constituted to bera profound secret and mystery to every other,
Chcwrles Dickm®