ind words are blossoms,
Kind deeds are fruits;
Love is the sweet sunshine
That warms into life,
For only in darkness
Grow hatred and strife.

Be good, dear child, and let who will be clever;
Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long;
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand, sweet song.

--_Kingsley._

Whene'er a task is set for you
Don't idly sit and view it,--
Nor be content to wish it done;
Begin at once and do it.

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in,
and lend a hand.

--_Hale._

This world is not so bad a world
As some would like to make it;
Though whether good or whether bad,
Depends on how we take it.

--_M. W. Beck._

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

--_Longfellow._

Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.

--_George Herbert._

If wisdom's ways you'd wisely seek,
Five things observe with care,--
_Of_ whom you speak, _to_ whom you speak,
And _how_, and _when_, and _where._

Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.

--_Gay._

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is
cheerfulness.

--_Bulwer Lytton._

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view
And clothes the mountain with its azure hue.

--_Campbell._

Give fools their gold and knaves their power,
Let fortune's bubble rise and fall;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree is more than all.

--_Whittier._

Our to-days and yesterdays
Are the blocks with which we build.

--_Longfellow._

Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

--_Young._

Errors, like straws upon the