h a wide inroad made upon the soundness of
his understanding.--DR. WATTS.

Superstition is a senseless fear of God; religion, the pious worship
of God.--CICERO.

Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him mad.
--FIELDING.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and
detesting superstition.--VOLTAIRE.

SYMPATHY.--Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.
It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are
but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious
quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no
personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.--TALFOURD.

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give; for money is external
to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own
soul.--MOUNTFORD.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad
track,--but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
--BEECHER.

The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the
pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.--PARKE GODWIN.

What gem hath dropp'd and sparkles o'er his chain?
The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,
That starts at once--bright--pure--from pity's mine,
Already polish'd by the Hand Divine.
--BYRON.

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.--SPURGEON.

TACT.--Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate
those you cannot conquer.--COLTON.

A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force
might vainly strive to overcome.

TALENT.--Talent of the highest order, and such as is calculated to
command admiration, may exist apart from wisdom.--ROBERT HALL.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line
of talent. Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be
anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
--SYDNEY SMITH.

Talent without tact is only half talent.--HORACE GREELEY.

TALKING.--Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one
tongue. Draw your own moral.--ALPHONSE KARR.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.--OUIDA.

If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a
bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely
with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.--PLUTARCH.

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