they receive him differently, yet treats alike the fool and the philosopher.-Hume.

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Life, all life is expenditure; we have it, but as continually losing it; we have the use of it, bat as continually wasting it. Suppose a man confined in some fortress, under the doom to stay there until his death and suppose there is for his use a dark reservoir of water, to which it is certain none can ever be added. He knows that the quantity is not very great; he cannot penetrate to ascertain how much, but it may be very little. He has drawn from it, by means of a fountain, a good while already, and draws from it every day. But how would he feel each time of drawing, and each time of thinking of it? Not as if he had a perennial spring to go to; not, “I have a reservoir, I may be at ease." No; but, "I had water yesterday--I have water to-day; but my having had it, and my having it to-day, is the very cause I shall not have it on some day that is approaching. And at the same time I am compelled to this fatal expenditure!" So of our mortal, transient life! And yet men are very indisposed to admit the plain truth that life is a thing which they are in no other way possessing than as necessarily consuming and that even in this imperfect sense of possession, it becomes every day less a possession!-John Foster.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?"-Faber.

It is a truth to be remembered, that this life, which is mortal, is given to us that we may prepare for the life which is immortal. -De Sales.

Life is before you; not an earthly life alone, but an endless life; a thread running interminably through the work of eternity.-J. G. Holland.

Our life is like Alpine countries, where winter is found by the side of summer, and where it is but a step from a garden to a glacier.-Richter.

Life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer or to do.-F. W. Robertson.

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, and honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, and honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably. Epicurus.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. Shakespeare.

Life is hardly respectable if it has no génerous task, no duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existence. Every man's task is his life-preserver.-Emerson. A useless life is only an early death.Goethe.

Why all this toil for the triumphs of an hour?--Young.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.— Franklin.

Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the power of to-morrow, when we are building up our being.-Emerson.

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.

There is not one life which the Life-giver ever loses out of His sight; not one which sins so that He casts it away; not one which is not so near to Him that whatever touches it touches Him with sorrow or with joy.Phillips Brooks.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.- Voltaire.

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost. God is better than his promise if he takes from him a long lease, and gives him a freehold of a better value.-Fuller.

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business; then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.-Addison.

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.-Zimmer

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Life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or patient perseverance.-Liddon,

Life, like the waters of the seas, freshens only when it ascends toward heaven.Richter.

I would so live as if I knew that I received my being only for the benefit of others.-Seneca.

He that embarks in the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the

ar; and many founder in their passage,

while they lie waiting for the gale.-John

son.

Measure not life by the hopes and enjoyments of this world, but by the preparation it makes for another; looking forward to what you shall be rather than backward to what you have been.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.-Tieck.

I am convinced that there is no man that knows life well, and remembers all the incidents of his past existence, who would accept it again. Campbell.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?— Mad. de Maintenon.

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.-Colton.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.-Theodore Parker.

If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this; make the most and best of yourself.-There is no tragedy like a wasted life-a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.T. T. Munger.

When reflect upon what I have seen, have heard, and have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion.-Chesterfield.

We never live, but we ever hope to live. -Pascal.

Life, according to an Arabic proverb, is composed of two parts: that which is past -a dream; and that which is to comea wish.

Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, beautiful butterflies, and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak, the flowers and butterflies

fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived-to reach a desert waste.G. A. Sala.

Life is the childhood of our immortality. -Goethe.

Life is thick sown with thorns, and 1 know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.- Voltaire.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.- Wendell Phillips.

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.-Montaigne.

How great pity that we should not feel for what end we are born into this world, till just as we are leaving it.-Walsingham.

Though I think no man can live well once but he that could live twice, yet for my own part, I would not live over my hours past, or begin again the thread of my days: not because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.-Sir T. Browne.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire; not too near, lest he burn; not to far off, lest he freeze.-Diogenes.

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that, were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.-Franklin.

He who increases the endearments of life, increases at the same time the terrors of death. Young.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels, or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.-Fitzosborne.

Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come. - Albert Barnes.

Hope writes the poetry of the boy, but memory that of the man. Man looks forward with smiles, but backward with sighs. Such is the wise providence of God. The cup of life is sweetest at the brim, the flavor is impaired as we drink deeper, and the dregs are made bitter that we may not struggle when it is taken from our lips.

Let us love life and feel the value of it, that we may fill it with Christ.-A. Monod.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.-L'Estrange.

If we do not weigh and consider to what end this life is given us, and thereupon order and dispose it right, we do not number our days in the narrowest and most limited signification.- Clarendon.

It is an infamy to die and not be missed. -Carlos Wilcox.

Would you throughout life be up to the height of your century, always in the prime of man's reason, without crudeness and without decline, live habitually, while young, with persons older, and when old with persons younger than yourself. Bulwer.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.-Augusta Evans.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be shorter than nature allows, ought to waken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true that no diligence can ensure success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking, has at least the honor of failing in his rank, and has fought the battle though he missed the victory.-Johnson.

The vanity of human life is like a rivulet, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.-Pope.

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts.-History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves.-There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.— Bulwer.

We are immortal till our work is done.Whitefield.

Our life cannot be pronounced happy till the last scene has closed with resignation and hope, and in the full prospect of a blessed immortality beyond the grave.

This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.-Carlyle.

They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose; who have rather breathed than lived.-Clarendon,

Many think themselves to be truly Godfearing when they call this world a valley Y tears. But I believe they would be more

so, if they called it a happy valley. God is more pleased with those who think everything right in the world, than with those who think nothing right. With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?-Richter.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.— Goethe.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.Goethe.

What a beautiful lesson is taught in these words of Sterne: "So quickly sometimes has the wheel of life turned round, that many a man has lived to enjoy the benefit of that charity which his own piety projected."

The meaning, the value, the truth of life can be learned only by an actual performance of its duties, and truth can be learned and the soul saved in no other way. -T. T. Munger.

It is the bounty of nature that we live, but of philosophy that we live well; which is, in truth, a greater benefit than life itself. -Seneca.

Fleeting as were the dreams of old, remembered like a tale that's told, we pass away.-Longfellow.

The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, 'twere too long.-Shakespeare.

Bestow thy youth so that thou mayst have comfort to remember it, when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. Whilst thou art young thou wilt think it will never have an end; but behold, the longest day hath his evening, and thou shalt enjoy it but once; it never turns again; use it therefore as the spring-time, which soon departeth, and wherein thon onghtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life.-Sir W. Raleigh.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on the dial: we should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.—Bailey.

There is nothing which must end, to be valued for its continuance. If hours, days, months, and years pass away, it is no matter what hour, day, month, or year we die. The applause of a good actor is due to him at whatever scene of the play he makes his exit. It is thus in the life of a man of

sense; a short life is sufficient to manifest himself a man of honor and virtue; when he ceases to be such, he has lived too long; and while he is such, it is of no consequence to him how long he shall be so, provided he is so to his life's end.-Steele.

Life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone. Not for itself, but for a nobler end the eternal gave it; and that end is virtue.-Johnson.

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, live well; how long or short permit to heaven.-Milton.

Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end-to the rest that remaineth for the people of God.

'Tis not for man to trifle; life is brief, and sin is here. We have no time to sport away the hours; all must be earnest in a world like ours.-Bonar.

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.-Donne.

The end of a dissolute life is commonly a desperate death.- Bion.

The truest view of life has always seemed to me to be that which shows that we are here not to enjoy, but to learn.-F. W. Robertson.

The shortest life is long enough if it lead to a better, and the longest life is too short if it do not.-Colton.

Nothing but a good life here can fit men for a better one hereafter.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.-Penn.

Dost thou love life?-Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.-Franklin.

That man lives twice who lives the first life well.-Herrick.

A sacred burden is this life ye bear; look on it; lift it; bear it solemnly; fail not for sorrow; falter not for sin; but onward, upward, till the goal ye win.-Frances Ann Kemble.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like him.Socrates.

Thy life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality; it is thine own, and it is all thou hast to front eternity with.-Carlyle.

Life's evening will take its character

from the day that preceded it.-Shuttleworth.

The creed of the true saint is to make the most of life, and to make the best of it. -E. H. Chapin.

Live while you live, the epicure would say, and seize the pleasures of the passing day.-Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, and give to God each moment as it flies.-Lord, in my views, let both united be. I live in pleasure while I live to thee.-Doddridge.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.-Penn.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.Seneca.

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long.-Lady Russell.

The things for which life is valuable are the satisfactions which come from the improvement of knowledge and the exercise of piety.-Boyle.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and to read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?-Seneca,

Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.-Carlyle.

We wish for more in life rather than more of it.-Jean Ingelow.

There is pleasure enough in this life to make us wish to live, and pain enough to reconcile us to death when we can live no longer.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others. Tryon Edwards.

Human life is a constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer.

Live as with God; and whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.-Horace Bushnell.

Life is divided into three terms-that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better for the future.

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.- Wordsworth.

Behold eighty-three years passed away! What cares! what agitation! what anxieties! what ill-will! what sad complications! and all without other result except great

fatigue of body and mind, and disgust with regard to the past, and a profound sentiment of discouragement and despair with regard to the future.-Talleyrand.

The shaping our own life is our own work. It is a thing of beauty, or a thing of shame, as we ourselves make it. We lay the corner and add joint to joint, we give the proportion, we set the finish. It may be a thing of beauty and of joy for ever. God forgive us if we pervert our life from putting on its appointed glory!- Ware.

What a death in life it must be an existence whose sole aim is good eating and drinking, splendid houses and elegant clothes! Not that these things are bad in moderation--and with something higher beyond. But with nothing beyond ?-Mulock.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two-common sense and perseverance.-Feltham.

To live is not merely to breathe, it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties, of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence. The man who has lived longest is not the man who has counted most years, but he who has enjoyed life most. Such a one buried a hundred years old, but he was dead from his birth. He would have gained by dying young; at least he would have lived till that time.-Rousseau.

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To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.Stanislaus.

Live as if you expected to live an hundred years, but might die to-morrow.-Ann Lee.

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One who sees the end from the beginning; he shall yet unravel all.-Alexander Smith,

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.-Phillips Brooks.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kinduess, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.-Sir H. Davy.

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.What we call life is a journey to death, and what we call death is a passport to life. Colton.

Age and youth look upon life from the

opposite ends of the telescope; to the one it is exceedingly long, to the other exceedingly short.-H. W. Beeche..

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, complaining of the present, and trembling for the future.-Rivarol.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that, but he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.-F. W. Robertson, With most men life is like backgammon -half skill and half luck.-O. W. Holmes.

LIGHT. Hail! holy light, offspring of heaven, first born!-Milton.

The first creation of God, in the works of the days, was the light of sense; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of the spirit.-Bacon.

Before the sun, before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice of God, as with a mantle didst invest the rising world of waters dark and deep won from the void and formless infinite.-Milton.

Light! Nature's resplendent robe; without whose vesting beauty all were wrapt in gloom.-Thomson.

Light is the symbol of truth.-J. R. Lowell.

The eye's light is a noble gift of heaven! All beings live from light; each fair created thing, the very plants, turn with a joyful transport to the light.-Schiller.

Light is the shadow of God.-Plato.

Moral light is the radiation of the diviner glory.-Dick.

The light of nature, the light of science, and the light of reason, are but as darkness, compared with the divine light which shines only from the word of God.-J. K. Lord,

Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the light which the sun pours freely, impartially, over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason and conscience and love are of more worth and diguity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.Channing.

We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and the joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as