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Luck: I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck. A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of ill-luck. _Addison

Library: "Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books." _Colton

Mere knowledge is comparatively worthless unless digested into practical wisdom and common sense as applied to the affairs of life._Tryon Edwards

Instability: He who begins many things finishes nothing._C. Simmons

"Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity." _G. D. Prentice

Diversions are most properly applied to ease and relieve those who are oppressed by being too much employed...To unbend our thoughts when they are too much stretched by are cares is not more natural than it is necessary; but to turn our whole life into a holiday is not only ridiculous, but destroys pleasure instead of increasing it._Saville

Discovery: He who sins against men, may fear discovery; but he who sins against God is sure of it.

Destiny: Nothing comes to pass but what God appoints._Our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy or sorrow is predetermined._Seneca. "What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."_ Johnson

Despondency: "To feel that we can do a thing is often success, so to doubt and despond is a sure step to failure."

A good man being asked during his last illness, whether he thought himself dying, "Really, friend, I care not. whether I am or not; for if I die I shall be with God; if I live, He will be with me."

Country: "God made the country, and man made the city. What wonder then that health and virtue should most abound, and least be threatened in the fields and groves."_Cowper

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose._Epictetus

Conscience: Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience, only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving._Whately

Concealment: "Thou shalt not get found out" is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it._Leonard Bacon. Conceit: The more one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of._Lavater.

Companionship: Be cautious with whom you associate, and never give your company or your confidence to those of whose good principles you are not sure._Bp. Coleridge

Children: The tasks set to children should be moderate. Over-exertion is hurtful both physically and intellectually, and even morally. But it is of the utmost importance that they should be made to fulfil all their tasks correctly and punctually. This will train them for an exact and conscientious discharge of their duties in after life._Hare

The character is like white paper; if once blotted, it can hardly ever be made to appear white as before._J. Mason
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death._Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing csn exist without cause._Voltaire

Anger: Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Aims: Not failure, but low aim, is crime.- J.R.Lowell

Accuracy: Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is the near kin to falsehood.-C.Simmons

Ability:
The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor the in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.-Henry Ford