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February 8.

And we whose law is love, serve less
By what we do, than what we are.

Songs of Many Seasons. Go breathe it in the ear of all who doubt and fear, And say to them Be of good cheer.'

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LONGFELLOW.

If I was asked what is the English of your Home, I should say 'Earthly Paradise.' I do not know when or where I ever spent such delightful days.

I am content to live,

THIRI WALL'S Letters.

Divided with but half a heart,
Till we shall meet and never part.

DR. KING.

He taught us how to live, and (oh! too high
The price of knowledge) taught us how to die.

February 10.

TICKELL.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps, are all a clear because' to a clear 'why.'

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LAVATER.

With patient steps thy path of duty run,
God nothing does, or suffers to be done,
But thou thyself wouldst do it, couldst thou see
The end of all events as well as He.

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Beyond all word or dream, that mutual life
Which God had given us richly to enjoy,

Its happy labours-blessed rests between

ANON.

Summer and Winter, Spring-time, and the joy of Harvest Home.

Elijah and Other Poems, B. M.

What will it be to live in the union of perfect love, with perfect saints in heaven, for ever?

RICHARD BAXTER.

But a little while and we shall meet again, never

to be separated.

The Mirror.

February 10.

Be sober at table and everywhere else; sober in speech, in expenditure, in judgment.

We can all do some good if we will.

FENELON.

CHARLES DICKENS.

His manhood hath been blessed with the pleasant

choice of his youth:

Behold his one beloved, she leaneth on his arm, And he looketh on the years that are past, to review the dawn of her affection.

M. F. TUPPER.

The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them, they are in in peace. Wisdom, iii. 1.

February 12.

You can hold the esteem of others only by amiable dispositions and the accomplishments of the mind.

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Love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on through love's eternity.

MRS. R. B. BROWNING.

Perfect purity-fulness of joy—everlasting freedom -perfect rest-health and fruition-complete security -substantial and eternal good. MRS. HANNAH More.

February 12.

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