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Richard Baxter born 1615.

Amelia Opie born 1769.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton born 1815.

Thomas Lord Fairfax died 1671.

In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief--enemies
with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

--Edward Bulwer.

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy
soul with hooks of steel.

--William Shakespeare.

Where persons who ought to esteem and love each other are kept
asunder, as often happens, by some cause which three words of frank
explanation would remove, they are fortunate if they possess an
indiscreet friend who blurts out the whole truth.

--Thomas B. Macaulay.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
Who did eat of my bread,
Hath lifted up his heel against me.

--Psalm 41. 9.

Lord God, help me to consider more carefully what I offer to my
friends; and may I not be critical of what I receive from my friends.
May I not be a hindrance instead of a help to those who would have my
companionship. Amen.

NOVEMBER THIRTEENTH

Sir John Moore born 1761.

Robert Louis Stevenson born 1850.

Sir John Forbes died 1861.

Little do we know our own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a
better thing than to arrive, and the True Success is to labor.

--Robert Louis Stevenson.

Whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn or writing epics,
so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall
earn a reward to sense as well as to the thought.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Nature gives to labor; and to labor alone. In a very garden of Eden
a man would starve but for human exertion.

--Henry George.

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his
glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

--Galatians 6. 4.

My Father, make pure living clear to me, that I may not be deceived in
my work; and may I not use my working hours searching for more
suitable work, but may I be sure in what I am that I may feel secure
in what I undertake to do. Amen.

NOVEMBER FOURTEENTH

Bishop Hoadley born 1676.

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel born 1805.

Robert Smythe Hichens born 1864.

Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation
what it may, he is better than any of those who follow the same
pursuit in silent sullenness.