ing moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often
acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.--MATTHEW WREN.

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or
woman.--ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH.

Natural ability can almost compensate for the want of every kind of
cultivation; but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want
of natural ability.--SCHOPENHAUER.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
--CHESTERFIELD.

ABSOLUTION.--No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just
and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.--BEDE.

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of
all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
--ST. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.

It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord
Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man
can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely
to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world.--ST. AMBROSE.

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from
their sins.--ST. CYRIL.

Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone
can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless
we bring repentance with us.--ST. AMBROSE.

ACTION.--The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.--EMERSON.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness
without action.--BEACONSFIELD.

There are three sorts of actions: those that are good, those that are
bad, and those that are doubtful; and we ought to be most cautious of
those that are doubtful; for we are in most danger of these doubtful
actions, because they do not alarm us; and yet they insensibly lead to
greater transgressions, just as the shades of twilight gradually
reconcile us to darkness.--A. REED.

To the valiant actions speak alone.--SMOLLETT.

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well.--HORACE MANN.

Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy are
incompatible.--BOVEE.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.

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Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act, in the living