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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXV, Issue 1268, 8 August 1893, Page 7

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There is some help for all the defects of fortune. —Cowley. Therais some virtue jn .. almost every vice hypocrisy;'—Hazlitti- W : Strong beliefs win strong men and make them stronger.—>Bulwer Lytton. The noblest employment of the mind is in the study of nature and truth.—Aristole. A man’s life on the earth is not to be measured by the time he is visible upon it.— George Mac Donald. Equable life makes an old person a comfort to himself and an example of healthful prudence to his friends. Never be ashamed of thy birth, or thy parents, or thy trade, or thy present employment, for the meanees of poverty of any of them.—Jemery Taylor. Nature is bound to keep up the average ; when she mutes a man who can accumulate a fortune, she usually produces a family of spendthrifts to squander it. The only, real safely and happiness of life comes from looking down 1 bravely into its depths. The great mass of people are stunted and starved with superficifllness. The best of a boob is not the thought which it contains but the thought which it suggests, just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones, but in the echoes of our hearts. If you are willing tobe as pleasant and as anxi us to please in your own hi me as you are in company of your neighbours, you would have the happiest home in the world. The Red Sea is for (he most part blue. It gets its name from the fact that portions of it are covered by minute animalculse, which dye the surface of the water red where they float, Agesilnus.King of Sparta, hems asked which was the best, valour o! jusdee, replied— * Unsupported by justice valour is worthless, and if all men were just (here would he no need of valour.’ ‘ I A man of a polite Imagination can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a eta' ue. He often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows tbrn another does in the possession. —Addison. Not a sound has ever ceased to vibrate through spare; not a ripple has ever been lost upon the ocean. Much more is it true that not a true thought, nor a pure resolve, nor a loving act, has ever gone forth in vain.— Robertson. The slightest misfortune of the great, the most imaginary, uneasiness of the rich, are aggravated with all the powers of eDqi ence, and held up to engage our attention and sympathetic sorrow. The poor weep unheeded.— Goldsmith. Any human being, however humble or liable to error, may reader an essential servide to society by making through a whole lifetime, a steady uncompromising, dispassionate declaration of bis convictions as they are ma'ured —Harriot Martineau, There is seldom a lino of glory written upon the earth’s face but a line of suffering runs paral'el with it, and they that read the lustrous syllables of the one, and stop not to decipher the worn inscription of the other, get the lesser half of the lesson earth has to give.