--_Dr. Warton._

865

The merry heart goes all the day,
While a sad one tires in a mile-a.

--_Shakespeare._

866

DISSENSION BETWEEN HEARTS.

Alas! how slight a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love--
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fell off,
Like ships that have gone down at sea,
When the ocean was all tranquility!
A something light as air--a look--
A word unkind or wrongly taken;
Oh, love that tempests never shook,
A breath--a touch like this hath shaken.

--_Thomas Moore._

867

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings; indeed nine times in ten it is so.

868

HEAVEN.

If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful, beyond compare,
Will Paradise be found!

--_Montgomery._

868a

Let others seek earth's honors; be it mine
One law to cherish, and to track one line--
Straight on towards heaven to press with single bent,
To know and love my God, and then to die content.

--_Newman._

869

Many a man who prides himself on doing a cash business, regards his
debts to Heaven with indifference.

870

THE DELIGHTS OF HEAVEN.

"Of the positive joys of heaven we can form no conception; but its
negative delights form a sufficiently attractive picture,--no pain; no
thirst; no hunger; no horror of the past; no fear of the future; no
failure of mental capacity; no intellectual deficiency; no morbid
imaginations; no follies; no stupidities; but above all, no insulted
feelings; no wounded affections; no despised love or unrequited regard;
no hate, envy, jealousy, or indignation of or at others; no falsehood,
dishonesty, dissimulation, hypocrisy, grief or remorse. In a word," said
Professor Wilson, "to end where I began, no sin and no suffering."

871

BELIEVE AND LIVE.

O how unlike the complex works of man,
Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan!
No clustering ornaments to clog the pile;
From ostentation, as from weakness free,
I