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ught brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.--_Emerson._ ~Threats.~--Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them.--_Colton._ It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.--_Emerson._ ~Time.~--Time's abyss, the common grave of all.--_Dryden._ Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.--_Shakespeare._ Time makes more converts than reason.--_Thomas Paine._ Time stoops to no man's lure.--_Swinburne._ Time is the wisest councillor.--_Pericles._ Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.--_Madame Swetchine._ Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.--_Seneca._ The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good.--_Tennyson._ Part with it as with money, sparing; pay no moment but in purchase of its worth; and what its worth! ask death-beds, they can tell.--_Young._ The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.--_Balthaser Gracian._ Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.--_Madame Swetchine._ ~Title.~--How impious is the title of "sacred majesty" applied to a worm, who, in the midst of his splendor, is crumbling into dust!--_Thomas Paine._ The three highest titles that can be given a man are those of martyr, hero, saint.--_Gladstone._ ~Toleration.~--The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.--_George Eliot._ Error tolerates, truth condemns.--_Fernan Caballero._ Toleration is the best religion.--_Victor Hugo._ ~Tongue~.--When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.--_Paxton Hood._ ~Travel.~--Rather see the wonders of the world abroad, than, living dully sluggardized at home wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.--_Shakespeare._ Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins.--_N. P. Willis._ The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.--_Johnson._ To see the world is to judge the judges.--_Joubert._ The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles, and why should not other tourists do the same.--_Haliburton._ ~Treason.~--Treason pleases, but not the traitor.--_Cervantes._ Th
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