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. Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it. --C.C. Colton. Dear to me is the friend, yet I can also make use of an enemy. The friend shows me what I can do, the foe teaches me what I should. --Schiller. Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another. --Galatians 5. 26. Almighty God, I would ask thee that my days be filled with aspiration, and that my heart may know no envy. Help me to love humanity. May I be so glad of the success of others that I may never know what it is to be envious. Amen. OCTOBER TWENTY-EIGHTH Desiderius Erasmus born 1465. John Locke died 1704. Georges Jacques Danton born 1759. Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long, He never comes too late. Until he cometh, rest, Nor grudge the hours that roll; The feet that wait for God Are soonest at the goal; Are soonest at the goal That is not gained by speed; Then hold thee still, my heart, For I shall wait his lead. --Bayard Taylor. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. --Lamentations 3. 26. Lord of life, may I pause to remember that rest may not be obtained with wretched thoughts, nor can it be enjoyed in discontent. In my moments of rest wilt thou show me how to relax, and with tranquillity may I gather hope for renewed ambition. Amen. OCTOBER TWENTY-NINTH Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded 1618. James Boswell born 1740. John Keats born 1795. Thomas Bayard born 1828. Thomas Edward Brown died 1897. Rise, O my soul, with thy desires to heaven, And with divinest contemplation use Thy time where time's eternity is given, And let vain thoughts no more thy thoughts abuse; But down in darkness let them lie: So live thy better, let thy worse thoughts die! --Sir Walter Raleigh. The great elements we know of are no mean comforters; the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown--the air is our robe of state, the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it. --John Keats. Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and
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