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The New Year
And his eyfes, most gracious and ten- der, were bent on mine.
In his hands he caught nt^ hands, while clarion clear
His golden, rapturous, confident tones rang forth:
Comrade, hail/ for I am the Nea>, New Year.
Clinton Dange^fieU.
January
"What if the winds be wintry, if the heart be strong? "
January
FIRST
He alone who begins life anew each morning is truly living.
Siaimton D. Kirkham
SECOND
Oh, if men but knew in what a small house joy can live, and how little it costs to furnish it !
Emil Sottvestre
THIRD
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love. Emerson
FOURTH
"Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
Ceorge Meredith
FIFTH
From ignorance men go astray.
Dr. Paul Dubois
SIXTH
I want you to look at every lovely thing in the world and remember it, and forget the rest. Bume-Jones
January
SEVENTH
Give us the wages of going on.
Term^son
EIGHTH
So remember to keep well; and remember anything rather than not to keep well; eind again I say, any- thing rather than not to keep well. R. L. Stevenson
NINTH
Do you seek the great opportun- ity? You can find it precisely where you are now.
Dr, Elwood Worcester
TENTH
Give me to pluck, what time the day
is spent. The leaves of that rare rose that is
content ; To press to lips when stars burn
bright above. The petals of that lily that is love.
Clinton Scollard
Jemueivy
ELEVENTH
Man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can a&Bcd -to let alone. Thoreau
TWELFTH
Properly speaking all true work is religion. Carl\)le
THIRTEENTH
The only purpose of knowing is to
teach ; the only purpose of having is
to give; the only purpose of being I
strong is to lift some part of the
weight of the world. I Thomas R. Sheer
FOURTEENTH
Oh, make us happy and you make us glad. Browning
FIFTEENTH .
Come m, chillen, *fo' de darkness
fall. I don't want to be missin' airy child
at all— G)me m, chillen, de good and - all. Martha Young
January
SIXTEENTH
The best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt
SEVENTEENTH
Today, whatever may annoy.
The word for me is joy, just simple
joy- John Kendrick Bangs
EIGHTEENTH
^ TTie worth of a man depends on his will, not on his knowledges
Kant
NINETEENTH
Take life as though you were born to the task of performing a merry part in it — as though the world waited for your coming. Spurgeon
TWENTIETH
Religion is just being friends with God the Father above and the broth- er by our side. Washington Gladden
January
TWENTY-FIRST
"If you know anything good and helpful, tell it."
TWENTY-SECOND
Nothing distresses us when we have ceased to fear it. Seneca
TWENTY-THIRD '
They might not need me, yet they
might, I'll let my heart He just in sight. A smile so small as mine, might be Precisely their necessity.
Emilyi Dickinson
TWENTY-FOURTH
It is the senseless craving for "fur- niture and effects" that keeps us all slaves. Horatio Dresser
TWENTY-FIFTH
Believe yourself well. It prevents many disorders. Dr. Paul Dubois
January
TWENTY-SIXTH
The durable satisfactions of life are to be found in the study of nat- ural history and in the domestic af- fections. Charles Darwin
TWENTY-SEVENTH
"Give, if thou canst, in alms; if not,
afford Instead of that, a sweet and gentle
word."
TWENTY-EIGHTH
Love is not getting, but giving.
//enrp Van D\)ke
TWENTY-NINTH
Nothing can take from me the blessing of having tried.
"John, the Unafraid"
THIRTIETH
Who is rich? He who is satisfied with his share. Who is strong? He who governs himself. fy Talmud
THIRTY-FIRST
"Where is there a man who is not self-made if made at all?"
F€»bruary
The golden meadoivs sleep in snoWt But underneath the grasses grow. And daisies dream of hud and bloTi>. Ellen Hutchinson
February
FIRST
Every day should have some part Free for a Sabbath of the heart.
Wordsworth
SECOND
It is a low benefit to give me some- thing; it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself.
Emerson
THIRD
Simply do the best you know, then trust. Horatio Dresser
FOURTH
Always remember this all your life ... A man is never defeated until the very last shot is fired. And remember this too: that even if he is defeated he is never beaten, pro- vided he has done the very best he could and has never lost heart.
Stewart Edward White
FIFTH
Truth is the strong thing. Let man*s hfe be true.
Browning
Fpbrudpy
SIXTH "The man who does not enjoy his job never does it well. If he does, he makes others happy."
SEVENTH He who loveth best serveth best, and will readiest overlook wrongs done himself. Wilfred T. Crenfell
EIGHTH
Enthusiasm is the fundamental quality of strong souls. Carlyile
NINTH
True religion is a life, not a belief. Henr^ Pritcheit
TENTH What we get we must earn, if it is to be truly ours. David Starr Jordan
ELEVENTH One thing is more necessary even them to teach children to write and read : it is to teach them the gladness of life, the joy of battle, the triumph of supreme effort even though it lead to what the world terms failure.
Helen Woljeska
February
TWELFTH
All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Shakespeare
THIRTEENTH
Manners are but morals wearing their best hats and< gowns.
Anna A. Rogers
FOURTEENTH
Religion in the shape of mind-cure gives to some of us serenity, moral poise, and happiness, and prevents certain forms of disease as well as science does, or even better in a cer- tain class of persons. William James
FIFTEENTH
What a man is declares itself through what he does.
Phillips Broods
SIXTEENTH
We are predominantly good, pre- dominantly healthy, even the worst of us; and it is right that we should have that in mind.
Dr. Luther H. GuUck
February
SEVENTEENTH
Are you in earnest? Seize this very
minute. What you can do, or dream you can,
begin it. Coethe
EIGHTEENTH
Now there is no preservative and antiseptic, nothing that keeps one's heart young like love, like sympathy, like giving oneself vsath enthusiasm to some worthy thing or cause.
John Burroughs
NINETEENTH
Lift where you stand.
Edward Everett Hale
TWENTIETH
Money is not required to buy one necessity for the soul. Thoreau
TWENTY-FIRST
"She did not show me how to succeed, but she gave me courage to meet failure with a light heart."
February
TWENTY-SECOND
There are not many men in this world, after all, that it will not pay us to go to school to — for something or other. David Gra})son
TWENTY-THIRD
I shall count nothing a failure but a failure to do right.
Charles E. Hughes
TWENTY-FOURTH
The best civilization cannot live without flowers amy more than it can live without pictures. ^. //. Bailey
TWENTY-FIFTH
Heaven is a place with many doors, and each may enter in his own way. Hindu Proverb
TWENTY-SIXTH
In years foregone, O Soul, was all
not well? Still lovelier life awaits thee. Fear
not thou. T. B. Aldrich
February
TWENTY-SEVENTH
Can't none of us help what traits we start out with, but we can help what we end up with.
Alice Hegan Rice
TWENTY-EIGHTH
Beloved Pan, and all ye Gods who here abide, make us more beau- tiful within. Socrates
TWENTY-NINTH
She had the essential attributes of a lady — high veracity, delicate honor in her dealings, deference to others, and refined personal habits.
George Eliot
SPDING
All seasons point forward: spring, into this life; autumn, into the life to come.
Maroh
HoV> the March sun feels like May!
And sunshine comes like an old
smile. And the fresh waters, and awakened
birds. And budding woods await us.
Brojvning
Maroh
FIRST
To-morrow is not, yesterday is not.
To-day alone is — and to-day is
thine. Ina Coolbirth
SECOND
The first wealth is health.
Emerson
THIRD
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Helen Keller
FOURTH
Arbitration is good, but there are times when it becomes necessary to knock a man down and arbitrate sit- ting on him. Jacob A. Riis
FIFTH There is no solution of trouble while we dwell upon it.
Horatio Dresser
SIXTH
Goodness is the cause of beauty in everything. Plato
Mavoh
SEVENTH
For curious eyes and a reverent heart this world is a wonderful place for a man to be born into.
Bume-Jones
EIGHTH
For when we gladly eat our daily
bread, we bless The hand that feeds us; And when we walk along life's way
in cheerfulness Our very heart-beats praise the love
that leads us.
Henry Van Dyk^
NINTH For man is man and master of his *^*^* Tennyson
TENTH
Misfortune nobly borne is good fortune. j^^^^^^ Aurdim
ELEVENTH
There is nothing supremely beau- tiful but genuine simplicity.
Bradford Torrey
March
TWELFTH
A merry countenance maketh a cheerful heart. William James
THIRTEENTH
For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay essential, to see his good qualities before pro- nouncing on his bad. Carl^le
FOURTEENTH
Economy is not parsimony, but efficient expenditure. /. M. Adam
FIFTEENTH
There is nothing that makes men
rich and strong but that which they
cany inside of them. Wealth is of
the heart and not of the hand.
Milton
SIXTEENTH
A man is as good as he tries to be. "John, the Unafraid*'
Maroh
SEVENTEENTH
Let us fold away our fears. And put by our foolish tears. And through all the coming years Just be glad. James Whiicomh Rile})
EIGHTEENTH
Christ taught the love that serves. Charles Kornach
NINETEENTH
Men need fitting for work; they need also fitting for leisure.
Canon Barrett
TWENTIETH
And who gives thanks? He who
with helping touch Raises the thirsty plant; who pities
much The tired beast; to poor gives alms
of love. Has writ his thanks, in words of fire,
above. Edith A. Talbot
TWENTY-FIRST
It is wicked to worry.
Annie Payson Call
Maroh
TWENTY-SECOND
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Lorvell
TWENTY-THIRD
Morals may subsist with wealth. It is only luxury which vitiates.
Carroll D. Wright
TWENTY-FOURTH
Do good work whether you live or die ; it is the entrance to all king- doms. Rusk'm
TWENTY-FIFTH
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that fciith let us dare do our duty as we understcind it.
Lincoln
TWENTY-SIXTH
"Two men looked out from prison
bars; One saw mud, the other stars."
Mdroh
TWENTY-SEVENTH
It is God's law that those things which are to Hve must grovy.
Robert Marion LaFolletie
TWENTY-EIGHTH
If you have got a good thing, hand it on, share it as far as you can ; your own share will not be denied you.
W, S. Rainsford
TWENTY-NINTH
Was some one asking to see the soul? See your own shape and counte- nance, lyalt Whitman
THIRTIETH
Man should not postpone his life until after his own funeral, but should begin his eternity now.
W. W. Thobum
THIRTY-FIRST
If you do one thing better than any one else, if it be only the making of a mouse-trap, the world will be sure to tread a path to your door.
Emerson
April
All the host of ^oung things Feel a stirring as of Tvings, And are jvakened from their dreams, B}) the warm and sunn}) gleam Of April sunshine in the air; — Springtime*s splendor everywhere.
Benjamin Leggeti
April
FIRST
Loss of interest, not years, is old age. David Cra^son
SECOND
Every day is a fresh beginning. Listen, my soul, to the glad re- frain. And spite of sorrow and older sin- ning. And problems forecasted and pos- sible pain. Take heart with the day and begin again. Susan Coolidge
THIRD
I judge of a man by his hope.
Emerson
FOURTH
"Face the cause of your worry fairly and squarely. Decide what you can do about it, do, it, and then forget it."
FIFTH
He alone who puts heart into it will do anything worth while.
Staunton D. Kirkham
April
SIXTH
It is not the absence of good but the invidious and blighting contrast of conditions which constitutes real poverty. /. a^. philUps
SEVENTH
Strive to keep a free, open sense, cleared from the mists of prejudice, above all from the paralysis of cant.
Caddie
EIGHTH
If we had but faith— wherein we fail — whate'er we yearn for would be granted us. Broi»ning
NINTH
Day of judgment? It is a syno- nym for the present moment — it is eternally going on. Bume-Jones
TENTH
"Persevere wisely: success comes at last."
April
ELEVENTH
If we could always realize our ideals when we wished, we should lose the full benefit of failure.
Horatio Dresser
TWELFTH
As for health, consider yourselves well. Thoreau
THIRTEENTH
That which is first worth knowing is that which is nearest at hand.
L. H. Bade})
FOURTEENTH
This man is an optimist. It means that he has struggled. That man is a pessimist. It means that he has shirked. John Joy Chapman
FIFTEENTH
The world is too much with us ; late
and soon. Getting and spending, we lay waste
our powers. Wordsworth
/
April
SIXTEENTH
Excess of luxury leaves no room for comfort. Marcus Aurel'ms
SEVENTEENTH
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.
Charles Eliot
EIGHTEENTH
We live beside each other day by day
And speak of myriad things, but sel- dom say
The full sweet word that lies just in our reach
Beneath the commonplace of com- mon speech. j\lora Perry
NINETEENTH
Who grasps the moment as it flies, he is the real man. Goethe
TWENTIETH
Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality! They are the perfect duties. 7^. £. Stevenson
April
TWENTY-FIRST The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and gen- erosity and sympathy are also strong- er than ever before.
Theodore Roosevelt
TWENTY-SECOND Peace if possible, justice at any rate. Wendell Phillips
TWENTY-THIRD
If you git knocked out of one place, you want to git yourself an- other right quick, before your spirits have a chance to fall. Mrs. Wiggs
TWENTY-FOURTH To be informed is not the same as to be wise. John C. Dana
TWENTY-FIFTH
"Not in the clamor of the crowded
street. Not in the shouts and plaudits of
the throng. But in ourselves are triumph and
defeat."
April
TWENTY-SIXTH
We are sad because we cry, we are afraid because we run away.
William James
TWENTY-SEVENTH
Religion is the heart impulse that turns toward the best cind highest action. David Starr Jordan
TWENTY-EIGHTH
Comradeship is one of the finest facts and one of the strongest forces in life. H^gh Black
TWENTY-NINTH
Not the size of the task, but the spirit shown in the task is the meas- ure of the man. //, c. King
THIRTIETH
Every one is, in the scriptural sense, the neighbor of all with whom he comes in contact.
Richard C. Cabot
May
Spring *s coming and Summer s coming.
A Summer of blossoming and Ma^.
Bronfning
May
FIRST
We are put into this world to make it better, and we must be about our business. General Armstrong
SECOND
There is in this world infinitely more joy than pain to be shared, if you will take your share when it is offered. Ruskin
THIRD Greed is cruelty. S. A. Bameil
FOURTH
The one fundamental fact is, that
what ought to be done can be done.
Washington Gladden
FIFTH
Hope evermore and believe, O man, for e'en as thy thought.
So are the things that thou seest; e*en as thy hope and belief.
Arthur Hugh Clough
May
SIXTH
Just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
SEVENTH
No man has a right to all of his rights. Phillips Brooks
EIGHTH
But look you, here *s the Grace of God, There *s neither price nor fee. Duty nor toil, that can control The power to love and see.
Bliss Carman NINTH
"Don*t be discouraged. Dead people are the only ones who never make mistakes.**
TENTH
We all have need of sympathy, by which men live. Bradle\f Cilman
ELEVENTH
Serve yourself by serving others. Richard Whiting
May
TWELFTH
"Whoever is capable of joy may learn to maintain it. . . . Wonder- ful are the results of training in en- joyment."
THIRTEENTH
Blessed is the man who has found his work, let him ask no other bless- edness. Carlylc
FOURTEENTH
If a man is to be happy, he must be happy now ; if he is to be happy, he must be happy here; if he is to be happy, he must be happy in himself and not in his conditions.
L^man Abbott
FIFTEENTH
"It does n't make a small man any bigger to lift him up."
SIXTEENTH
Each age must worship its own thought of God. Loivell
May
SEVENTEENTH
We learn by doing.
Edrvard Atkinson
EIGHTEENTH
I know but one elevation of a hu- man being and that is elevation of soul. Channing
NINETEENTH
"God gave us some this year; he will give us some next year, and he did not give it for ourselves alone."
TWENTIETH
Ye have read, ye have heard, ye have thought. . . . Give answer — what ha' ye done? Tomlimon
TWENTY-FIRST
Help people to help themselves. Richard T. Eljf
May
TWENTY-SECOND
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor.
King Solomon
TWENTY-THIRD
God has given us our relations. Thank God, we can choose our rriends. Emerson
TWENTY-FOURTH
It is with the heart only that one captures a heart. f?. /^. Stevenson
TWENTY-FIFTH
"Not getting the better of another person, but getting the better of our- selves, is success."
TWENTY-SIXTH
Let our affection flow out to our fellows; it would operate in a day the greatest of all revolutions.
Emerson
lAay
TWENTY-SEVENTH
How much we could accomplish and how strong we should be if we did not fret. Charles Kornach
TWENTY-EIGHTH
Circumstances, however difficult, are always without exception oppor- tunities, and not limitations.
Annie Pay son Call
TWENTY-NINTH
The mistake of the poor is sup- posing that money will make them happy. lY. H. Mallock
THIRTIETH
No sooner the old hope drops to the ground
Than a new one, straight to the self- same mark I shape me.
BroTvning
THIRTY-FIRST
A mother is not a collection of fine sayings, but an eternal influence of fine arts. /)aviJ Starr Jordan
SUMMED
In this refulgent Summer it has been
a luxury to draw the breath of life.
The grass grows, the buds burst, the
meadow is spotted with fire and gold
in the trail of flowers. . . . The mystery
of nature was never displayed more
happily. . . . What invitation from
every faculty of man!
Emerson.
]unes bridesman, poet o the })ear. Gladness on wings, the bobolink is
here; Half-hid in tip-top apple blooms he
sings. Or climbs against the breeze with
quiverin wings. Or, given wa^ to*t in a mock despair. Runs down a brook o laughter thro*
Lowell
Jttno
FIRST
Though his beginning be but poor
and low, Thank God, a man can grow.
Florence Earle Coaies
SECOND Be ye true in everything.
THIRD
Ruskin
Give me a look, give me a face. That makes simplicity a grace.
Ben Jonson
FOURTH
He possessed a kind of ugly cour- age that made it easy for him to speak with extraordinary plainness of other men's defects.
Bradford Torres
FIFTH
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he al- ways has good company.
Charles E. Hughes
Jttnp
SIXTH
I feel and I grieve, but I do not worry. John Wesle\f
SEVENTH
He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
Coleridge
EIGHTH
Wondrous is the strength of cheer- fulness, altogether past calculation its power of endurance. Carl^le
NINTH
We need greater solitude, more intimate and personal reflection, and less reading. Or, Pad Dubois
TENTH
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great op- portunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour.
John Burroughs
Jtin©
ELEVENTH
Poor and content is rich and rich enough. Shakespeare
TWELFTH
"Do not let the good things of life rob you of the best things."
THIRTEENTH
Beauty does not consist merely in the shape and coloring of the face. . . . Beauty is expression.
Jean Francois Millet
FOURTEENTH
Get thy tools ready:
God will give thee work.
Broivning
FIFTEENTH
It is no use lamenting over one's
mistakes in life; nothing is to be done
that way, and they are not all such
pure loss as they seem at the time.
The wisdom that comes of them is
to be had no other way.
Bume-Jones
Jtmo
SIXTEENTH "Take hold and lift."
SEVENTEENTH
We think that there are circum- stances in which we can treat human beings without love, and there are no such circumstances. Tolstoi
EIGHTEENTH
It is beautiful — the world and life
itself — I am glad I have lived.
RossetU NINETEENTH
The practice of economy needs training as much as the practice of any other science.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
TWENTIETH
We believe more and more in the true essence of religion — the great command, "Bear ye one another's burdens." Carroll D. Wright
TWENTY-FIRST
In the Bible "duty" is mentioned but five times; "love" hundreds.
William Ceorge Jordan
JlHlQ
TWENTY-SECOND
Henceforth I whimper no more. Wait Whitman
TWENTY-THIRD
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them oneself, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab? Emerson
TWENTY-FOURTH "Thy neighbor is thy fellowman."
TWENTY-FIFTH
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that life is love, laughter, and work. Elbert Hubbard
TWENTY-SIXTH
If we knew how to look around us we should not need to look up.
Margaret Fuller
TWENTY-SEVENTH
A wide-spreading, hopeful dispo- sition is your only true umbrella in this vale of tears. j, Q, Aldrich
Jxxrv^
TWENTY-EIGHTH
Aim to give rather than to get.
Katharine H. Newcomb
TWENTY-NINTH
Go forth to meet the shadowy fu- ture without fear and with a manly Heart. jean Paul Richier
THIRTIETH
He had the good part of the things of this world, in that he could ad- mire. Anatele France
July
Here are flowers and songs of birds. Beauty and fragrance, wealth of
song and sound. All Summer's glor^ thine from morn
till night. And life too full of joy for words.
Cclia Thaxter
July
FIRST
Each day is an open door. There
is the open door of duty, the open
door of service, the open door of
kindness. H. C. Tolman
SECOND
Despatch is the soul of business. The Earl of Chesterfield
THIRD
Go on your way unmoved— on
and on to what you are required to
do; the rest will take care of itself.
Walt Whitman
FOURTH
The world is my country and to
do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
FIFTH
It is a divine office; the divinest we have here below, that of helping.
Carl^fle SIXTH
"No man can think rightfully about things unless he knows how to do those things."
July
SEVENTH
Worry is nothing but a diluted, dribbling fear. . . . See that all the hours of the day are so full of inter- esting and healthful occupations that there is no chance for worry to stick its nose in. q,^ i^i},^^ //. q^h^
EIGHTH
Through the wide world he only is alone who lives not for another.
Rogers
NINTH
It is something, to be sure, to be charitable with our money; but far greater is charity of thought.
Staunton D. Kirkham
TENTH
Have you the will? Leave God t^ie way. Bron^ning
ELEVENTH
"Hands that ope but to receive Empty close — they only give Richly who can richly live.'*
July
TWELFTH A man of fifty is responsible for his face. Stanton
THIRTEENTH Honesty first; then courage; then brains. Theodore Roosevelt
FOURTEENTH Teach me your word, O patient stars ! Who climb each night the ancient
sky. Leaving no space, no shade, no scars. No trace of age, no fear to die.
Emerson
FIFTEENTH
It is the "every days" that count. You must make them tell, or the years have failed. William C. Gannett
. SIXTEENTH
You, I am sure, are honest and kind; then believe that God is hon- est and kind also. T. Trorvard
July
SEVENTEENTH
The only helpless people in the world are the lazy.
General Armstrong
EIGHTEENTH
Love is the sanctifying element in life and reverent admiration is the perfect human gift. piuskin
NINETEENTH
The hopeful quality in man is his capacity for improvement.
Dr. Paul Dubois
TWENTIETH
The best investment any of us can make in this world is each day to set about doing something, however small or big, that will cheer the path- way of some one else.
/. D. Rockefeller
TWENTY-FIRST
"People who are true themselves have rarely to complain of untruth in others."
July
TWENTY-SECOND
"Dear Lord, since Thou didst make
the earth. Thou mad'st it not for grief, but mirth ; Therefore will I be glad. And let who will be sad."
TWENTY-THIRD
Give yourself in your philan- thropy. Richard T. El\)
TWENTY-FOURTH We do not go to heaven; heaven comes to us. Frederick D. Hedge
TWENTY-FIFTH
Meet a problem normally, simply
— let it solve itself. In nine cases out
of ten, if we leave it alone and live
as if it were not, it will solve itself.
Annie Payson Call
TWENTY-SIXTH
The sacredness, if there is ziny, is all in yourself and not in the place.
Thoreau
July
TWENTY-SEVENTH
Have many tastes and one hobby.
LecJi})
TWENTY-EIGHTH
Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, or suffer noble sorrows. Charles Reade
TWENTY-NINTH
The one thing human beings want is human sympathy.
C. H. Henderson
THIRTIETH
We become like those we habit- ually admire. f{c„ry, Drummond
THIRTY-FIRST
Die whenever we may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I knew a flower would grow. Lincoln
August
The asters now put on the lavender Of grief remembered, yet grief half-assuaged —
The tender purple in the sky astir
Upon the ground in little stars
engaged.
William Shattuck
August
FIRST
Every day has the possibility of being the greatest of days.
Staunton D. Kirkham
SECOND
"One with another and for an- other."
THIRD
A revolution is being wrought in the conscience of mankind, and this is only the beginning.
Joseph Wingaie Folk
FOURTH
It is a great part of the comfort
and success of life to recognize one's
limitations and be reconciled to them.
Bradford Torres
FIFTH
I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen.
Alice Care}f SIXTH
The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his op- portunity when it comes. Disraeli
August
SEVENTH
Rejoice with the stars and the birds. Count your blessings. Re- habilitate the memory of the good and the joyful; and if Hfe seems too hard for the time being, take it on trust with the simplicity of a child. Horatio Dresser
EIGHTH
Look to your radiations.
Felix Adler
NINTH
In this broad earth of ours.
Amid the measureless grossness and
the slag. Enclosed and safe within its central
heart Nestles the seed perfection.
Walt Whitman
TENTH
"Dear, there is always something left. One can always be brave."
August
ELEVENTH
Every soul of us had to do its fight with the untoward, and for itself dis- cover the unseen. Rmkin
TWELFTH
Men are growing more social. It is the divine element in them which is drawing them together.
Washington Gladden
THIRTEENTH "Progress must be growth.'*
FOURTEENTH
The wisest man could ask no more
of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly,
true. Safe from the many, honored by the
few. Lon>ell
FIFTEENTH
Sorrow is vain and despondency sinful. Bron>mng
August
SIXTEENTH
Truth never wounds ; it is the way we speak it that offends.
Katharine H. Newcomb
SEVENTEENTH A high aim is curative as well as ^^^^' Emerson
EIGHTEENTH
"One asks for sun, an' one for rain. An* sometimes bofe together;
I prays for sunshine in my heart. An' den forgits de weather."
NINETEENTH
The key to most of the evils in our
neighbors may be found in ourselves.
Margaret Collier Graham
TWENTIETH
Two infants reasoning in the womb about the nature of this life might be no unhandsome type of two men reasoning about the life that is to come. Carhle
August
TWENTY-FIEIST
Let us look at the road by which the fault has come. Victor Hugo
TWENTY-SECOND
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. Proverbs 17:22
TWENTY-THIRD
Thou shalt be served thyself by
every sense Of service which thou renderest.
E. B. BroTpning
TWENTY-FOURTH
I paint my character into my pic- ture ; I write it into my poem ; I build
it into my house.
Staunton D. Kirkham
TWENTY-FIFTH
All philosophy is a search for God. Plato
TWENTY-SIXTH
"Joy lies in the doing. And the rapture of pursuing Is the prize."
August
TWENTY-SEVENTH
Look for the beautiful and you will find it in unexpected places.
S. V. Cole
TWENTY-EIGHTH
I cim unaware of emything that has
a right to be called an impossibility.
Thomas B. HuxUy
TWENTY-NINTH Cultivate a trcinquil habit. Let trifles go. Bishop Fallows
THIRTIETH
There is no such thing as old age as long as you Wcint to go on.
Ines Haines Gilmore
THIRTY-FIRST
**I thank thee, Lord, for strength of arm
To win my bread. And that beyond my need is meat
For friend unfed. I thank thee much for bread to live, I thank thee more for bread to give."
AUTUMN
Let budcling spring be tlune,
And autumn brown and debonaire — Daysthatdarken and nights that shine—
Let all the round year be thy fare. Hemy Van Dyke-
SoptQmbGr
**No sorrow upon the landscape
weighs. No grief for the vanished summer
days; But a sense of peaceful and calm
repose Like that which age in autumn
knows. "
SpplQiribGP
FIRST
Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it is necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. Thoreau
SECOND
The world is not bad. It 's good — thoroughly good. You simply have to touch it right.
Jacob A. Riis
THIRD
"God gives us all some small sweet way To set the world rejoicing."
FOURTH
':^ Let us know that every quality in us is calling to the same quality in others. — C. B. Patterson
FIFTH
He masters whose spirit masters. Walt Whitman
SIXTH
"Speak gently! 't is a little thing Dropped in the heart's deep well :
The good, the joy that it may bring Eternity shall tell."
SEVENTH The art of living to-day is the art of rejection. ;v. S. Shaler
EIGHTH
The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness ... is to sit up cheer- fully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already here. William James
NINTH
A man's best things are nearest him. Lie close about his feet.
R. Moncton Milnes
TENTH
This world's improvement is for- ever sure. Carble ELEVENTH
*'I wish, I will, I can — these are the trumpet notes that lead on to vic- tory.*'
TWELFTH
Just one song to the world repeat:
This man loved and found life sweet.
Herbert Muller Hopkins
THIRTEENTH
My business is not to remake myself
But make the absolute best of what
God made. Browning
FOURTEENTH
I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best as each day came. Lincoln
FIFTEENTH
Trust not to each accusing tongue. As most weak persons do.
But still believe that story false Which ought not to be true.
Sheridan
SIXTEENTH
I am bound to praise the simple life because I have lived it and found it good. John Burroughs
Spptombor
SEVENTEENTH
The human heart is like heaven. The more angels the more room.
Frederika Bremer
EIGHTEENTH
The difficulty with most of us is that we are ignorant and weak. . . . It is time we educated ourselves in hygiene, diet, and purity.
James H. West
NINETEENTH
The woman's cause is the man's; they rise or sink together, dwarf* or godlike, bond or free. Tenny/son
TWENTIETH
"All time spent in bemoaning the past is wasted. . . . Drop the past moment and be glad you live to re- deem it."
TWENTY-FIRST
It is the effort that deserves praise, not the success. Rmkm
TWENTY-SECOND
The very name and appeareinces of a happy mcin breathe of good na- ture, and help the rest of us to live. R. L. Stevenson
TWENTY-THIRD
Politeness is real kindness kindly expressed. y. Wilherspoon
TWENTY-FOURTH
What we seek we shall find.
Emerson
TWENTY-FIFTH
"The soul Shall have society of its own rank. Be great, be true, and all great souls
Shall flock to you and tarry by your
side. And comfort you with their high
compciny."
TWENTY-SIXTH
All free and daring souls have be- fore them a well-nigh limitless op>- portunity for endeavor of every kind. Theodore Roosevelt
TWENTY-SEVENTH
'Somehow, I never feel like good lings belong to me till I pass them |on to somebody else."
TWENTY-EIGHTH
The measure of any life is its love. A. M. C. Dupee
TWENTY-NINTH
Honest toil is holy service. Faithful vs^ork is praise cuid prayer. Henry Van D'sk^
THIRTIETH
"When you are lonely seek some other lonely one to cheer."
Oetobpp
As fruits and leaves and the day
itself acquire a bright tint just before
they fallj so the year nears its setting.
October is its sunset s^y, November
the later twilight.
Thoreau
Oetobop
FIRST
It is the glory of life that it is new every day; new in its hopes, its en- deavors, its toils. //. C. Tolman
SECOND
The object of education is not toj teach how to gain a living, but to teach us how to live. y. f. MmgeTf
THIRD
Books are good enough in their way, but they are a mighty blood- ies? substitute for life.
R. L. Stevenson
FOURTH
We ask advice but we mean ap- probation. Colton FIFTH
Everything is possible, if you will only be energetic euid independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.
"Elizabeth and Her German Garden"
SIXTH
"Take life as you find it but don'^ leave it so."
Oetobpp
SEVENTH
The music that suits me best- — When I'm tired, gives me rest — Is to have a Httle child Gurgle out in laughter vn\d And just laugh and laugh its best. Mrs. Stanley
EIGHTH What v^e truly need will come to us- C. B. Patterson
NINTH This life is a training and a pass- age* Browning
TENTH
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs — is more elastic, starry, and immortal — that is your success. Thoreau
ELEVENTH
Appeal to the divine in any indi- vidual and he will always respond.
Katharine H. Newcomb
Oetobop
TWELFTH They who are of Hke mind are our kindred. Staunton D. Kirkham
THIRTEENTH
Do something for somebody. Not only mingle with people, but lend a hand whenever you can. s. V. Cole
FOURTEENTH
"The joy of life lies not in attain- ment, but in attaining."
FIFTEENTH
Your success and happiness lie in
you. External conditions are the
accidents of Hfe, its outer trappings.
Bishop Fallows
SIXTEENTH
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Emerson
SEVENTEENTH
"God is never so far off
As even to be near; He is within; our spirit is
The home He holds most dear."
Oetobpp
EIGHTEENTH
Even in the life that is most ordi- nary, the part that is done for God is enormous. The lowest of men would rather be just than unjust.
Renan
NINETEENTH
It *s the things which bore you that kill you, not the fatiguing ones.
W. M. Hunt
TWENTIETH
"The man who finds the world full of mean people is himself a mean soul."
TWENTY-FIRST
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Carl^le
TWENTY-SECOND
It is a very old and a very tme saying that failure is the only high- road to success. /^. i^, Stevenson
Oetobop
TWENTY-THIRD
Be sure that whenever you make an unselfish effort to comfort amother, you will get a glimpse of the face of the Master. "John, the Unafraid "
TWENTY-FOURTH
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without. Coethe
TWENTY-FIFTH
"Our Father, thou art giving us blessings all the time; help us to be a blessing."
TWENTY-SIXTH
Nay, she aimed not at glory; no
loser of glory she; Give her the glory of going on, and
still to be. Tenn\fson
TWENTY-SEVENTH
To feel brave, act as though we
were brave, use all our will to that
end, and a courage fit will very likely
replace the fit of fear.
IVilliam James
Oetobop
TWENTY-EIGHTH
"Do your best, then take whatever comes without flinching. Every ex- perience can be turned to good ac- count."
TWENTY-NINTH
Love Is a short word that says so much.
Browning
THIRTIETH
Cast your bread upon the waters and after many days it shall return to you buttered. Mrs. A. B. Alcott
THIRTY-FIRST
I have no creed but love; is there a hell Where some poor tortured thing cries out in pain? Then let me take his hand and wish him well And wait until he finds his heaven again. Rossiter W^e
"Hurrah for November! n>e all will sa}f.
For he brings the happy Thanks- giving Day.
Now we give thanks to the Father above
For the harvest blessings that come from His love."
Novc^mbpp
FIRST
What each day needs, that shalt
thou ask. Each day will set its proper task.
Coethe
SECOND
No profit grows where no pleasure is la en. Shakespeare
THIRD
An arm of aid to the weak; A friendly hand to the friend- less; Kind words so short to speak.
But whose echo is endless: The world is wide, these things are
small. They may be nothing, — but they are s"* Richard Moncion Mllnes
FOURTH
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — even a proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it. Keats
NovQiubpr
FIFTH
Life is the original school— life, domestic and social. Davidson
SIXTH
The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is character.
W. M. Hunt
SEVENTH
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is just what makes the prettiest kind of a man. /^. /^. Stevenson
EIGHTH
( Appreciate the goodness and the ''; beauty in the conditions of your daily life .... and your heart will ( be so full of thcinksgiving there will i be no room in it for discontent, un- I rest, or any of the host of evil pas- l sions that lie in wait to murder hu- man happiness. Horace Fletcher
Novc^mbpp
NINTH
Let us be sure our enemy is not the hateful being we are apt to paint him. Carl\)le
TENTH
Let thy day be to thy night
A letter of good tidings. Let thy
praise Go up as the birds go up, that when
they wake Shake off the dew eind soar.
Jean Ingelow
ELEVENTH
Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and to make knowledge valuable you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
Emerson
TWELFTH
There is no sin save unkindness.
"John, the Unafraid"
THIRTEENTH
It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain.
Longfellorv
FOURTEENTH
It tastes af brotherliness — one of the sweetest tastes I know, and yet one that the poorest of us can be giv- ing away every day.
Wilfred T. Crenfell
FIFTEENTH
[ "Be merry
When life goes along like a song; But the man worth while is the man who will smile When everything goes dead wrong."
SIXTEENTH
If we have attained so far as to speak no lies let us make the nobler effort to live none, lyji^ Maria Child
SEVENTEENTH
All leads up higher. All shapes out dimly the superior
race. The heir of hopes too fair to turn out
false. Browning
Novi^mbpp
EIGHTEENTH
"Children receive gracefulness from nature, and learn awkwardness from man."
NINETEENTH
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing Ufe in remembering the past. Thoreau
TWENTIETH
"The man who knows the world is the man who knows the worst of it."
TWENTY-FIRST
The art of arts, the glory of ex- pression and the sunshine of letters, is simplicity. iValt Whitman
TWENTY-SECOND
"Kings are to serve the people. And wealth is to serve the poor.
And learning to lift up the lowl^. And strength that the weak may endure."
NovG^mbpp
TWENTY-THIRD
The fall of man consists of his dropping into subjection to his zuii- mal nature. fjcnr^ Wood
TWENTY-FOURTH
"Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried."
TWENTY-FIFTH
That love for one, from which doth
not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless
thing. Lor^cll
TWENTY-SIXTH
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity. Hem^ Ward Beecher
TWENTY-SEVENTH
"Out of the narrow and cramping Into a service of loving deeds ; Out of a separate, limited plan Into the Brotherhood of Man,
This is our resurrection!"
TWENTY-EIGHTH
Freedom is a conquest, not a be- quest. Booker T. Washington
TWENTY-NINTH
"We and God have business vsith each other; and in opening ourselves to His influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled."
THIRTIETH
"He who would grow, who would feel his soul expand, should never let a day pass without trying to see some beautiful thing,"
WINTEE
"It is pleasant to think, just under the snow That stretches so bleak and blank and cold, Are beauty and warmth that we can- not know, Green fields and leaves and blossoms of gold."
DpCQiribpp
" *Help one another* the snorvflakes
said. As they cuddled down in their fleecy
bed. *One of us here would quickly melt; But ril help ^ou and ^ou help me. And then what a splendid drift we'll
he: "
DQCombpr
FIRST
What a child cannot understand of Christianity no one need to.
Ruskin
SECOND
One ought to assume that one is in society, that one is society.
Lilian Whiting
THIRD
It is necessary to be more on our guard against pride than against a conflagration. Hegel
FOURTH
You may not believe in God, or heaven, or hell, or anything else. You may call yourself an atheist un- til you are black in the face, but if you kiss away the hurt of a little child you believe in Christ for the moment. i^, j. Stead
FIFTH Men make the hits, but not the misses. Bacon
SIXTH
"All is not wrong so long as wrong seems wrong."
SEVENTH Leave thy temple and search for a heart. Omar Khayyam
EIGHTH
An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank Thee for these gifts of
Thine, The Summer's sunshine, Winter's
snow. The hearts that kindle, words that
glow. But when shall I attain to this — To thank Thee for the things I miss? T, W. Higginson
NINTH
Good nature is a great part of morals. Loivell
TENTH
/ "Fear not hard things but fear the /easy things."
Docembpp
ELEVENTH
Every man must do his own grow-| ing, no matter how tall his grand-j father was. J. K. Beecher^
TWELFTH
I never learned anything, not even standing on my head, but I found use for it* Fleming Jenkin
THIRTEENTH
Life means a chance to be help- ing lame dogs over the stiles, a chance to be cheering cund helping to bear the burdens of others.
Wilfred T. Crenfell
FOURTEENTH
"Court the fresh air day and night. Oh, if you knew what was in the air!"
FIFTEENTH
There can be no fairer cumbition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
R. L. Stevenson
DQCGiribpp
SIXTEENTH
"You must walk with your eyes as well as your feet."
SEVENTEENTH
I am startled that God can make me so rich even with my own cheap stores. It needs but a few wisps of straw in the sun, some small word dropped, or that has long lain silent in a book. Thoreau
EIGHTEENTH
"It isn *t the thing that you do, dear,
But the thing that you leave un- done. Which gives you the bitter heartache
At the setting of the sun, — The tender word forgotten.
The letter you did not write. The flowers you did not send, dear.
Are your haunting ghosts to- night."
NINETEENTH
"Simplicity and sunshine will heal most ills."
D€H?9ihbpr
TWENTIETH
When we discuss spiritual topics witfi those who differ from us, we speak two languages. Balzac
TWENTY-FIRST
There is no age to the spirit that lives in high sentiments.
L^dia Maria Child
TWENTY-SECOND
Never have more than one kind oil trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. Edward Everett Hale
TWENTY-THIRD
Our lives must climb from hope to
hope And realize our longing. Loufell
TWENTY-FOURTH
"The highest Is generally among the aged, the poor, and the infirm.'*
DQCQiribpp
TWENTY-FIFTH
If we*re happy Christmas, why not the day before, an' the day that follows, an' sQjbn, evermore?
' Wilbur D. Nesbii
TWENTY-SIXTH Making heaven on earth is the real business of every human being. Lilian Whiting
TWENTY-SEVENTH "Don't carry the whole world on your shoulders, far less the universe. Trust the eternal.'*
TWENTY-EIGHTH
I know that love is never wasted. Nor truth, nor the breath of a prayer; And the thought that goes forth as a blessing Must live as a joy in the air.
Lucy Larcom
TWENTY-NINTH
A man preaching from his earnest soul into the earnest souls of men : is not this virtually the essence of all churches whatsoever? Carlyle
DpCGinbpp
THIRTIETH
Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but
grow young This old
age ought not to grow on a human
^^^' Emerson
THIRTY-FIRST
The public honesty which makes business on a credit basis possible is the kingdom of God. The public school is the kingdom of God. In- ternational law and international peace based on international law is the kingdom of God. The distribu- tion of wealth is the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is here. Lyman Abbott
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