A man he seems, of cheerful yesterdays And confident to-morrows. WORDSWORth. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. P. J. BAILEY. There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrels have told, When two that are linked in one heavenly tie, With hearts never changing and love never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die. T. MOORE. Death is that harbour whither God hath designed every one, that there he may find rest from the troubles of the world. JEREMY TAYLOR. January 18. The primal duties shine aloft like stars, Love does not aim simply at the conscious good of the beloved object: it is not satisfied without perfect loyalty of heart; it aims at its own completeness. Romola: G. ELIOT. There needs no verse to beautify thy praise, Ancient Epitaph, 1623. The secret of happiness is never to let your energies stagnate. The lessons of disappointment, humiliation, and blunder, are worth a thousand masters. ADAM CLARKE. I know that we must trust and hope, and neither doubt ourselves nor doubt the good in one another. CHARLES DICKENS. The labourer's week-day work is done; Which Christ hath for His people won. The Changed Cross, &c. - January 20. A companion in whom there is great gentleness, great sweetness, excessive sympathy, and perfect repose. CHARLES DICKENS. My mind to me a kingdom is. PERCY'S Reliques. As love is the life of faith, so with the increase of love faith increases. Even from man towards man faith and love grow together. The more we love, the more we understand, and the more we trust one another. DR. PUSEY, Leave them with Him, who loves us all with tender love and true, Trust them with Him, who did for them what you could never do. Their death is died, their tears are shed, empty their cup of pain, No trouble now can vex their heart, no sin their garments stain. Let the cool streams of prudence temper the hot spring of zeal so shalt thou gain thine honourable end nor lose the midway prize; so shall thy life be useful and thy heart happy. It is the same, together or apart, M. F. TUPPer. From life's commencement to its slow decline We are entwined ;-let death come slow or fast, The tie which bound the first endures the last. BYRON. Death is not a break in existence, it is but an intermediate circumstance, a transition from one form of our finite existence to another. VON HUMBOldt. January 22. Prune thou thy words, thy thoughts control, They will condense within thy soul DR. NEWMAN. That couple's more than trebly blest Odes of Horace: JAMES HOWE. All his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be passed. GOLDSMITH. Landed safe on the happy shore of a blessed Eternity. LADY RUSSELI, 1685. |