Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest live well, how long or short permit to Heaven. MILTON. To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom. Love, that two hearts makes one, Makes eke one will; Each strove to please, and other's MILTON. Pleasure to fulfil. SPENSER'S Fairy Queene. Each lovely scene shall thee restore, And mourn'd till Pity's self be dead. January 24. COLLINS. Flowers bloom along the way that duty treads. A stranger unto life I'm come; GREENE. She's adorned amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely. The truest mirror that an honest wife can see her beauty in. JOHN TOBIN, 1770. Leave us, then, we two are happy. MRS. B. BROWNING. Repair'd, refreshed, renewed, And with a higher life endued, At one with God eternally. J. S. B. MONsell. Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself: it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not. DR. PUSEY. The Sun and Day shall sooner part BUTLER'S Hudibras. 'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose January 26. KEBLE. Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time, for that is the stuff Life is made of. BEN. FRANKLIN. Pause, you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. CHARLES DICKENS. They were but gone Before him, whither he should shortly go: SOUTHEY. |