Art thou dejected?
Is thy mind o'ercast?
To chase thy gloom,
Go fix some weighty truth;
Chain down some passion; do some generous good;
Teach Ignorance to see, or Grief to smile;
Correct thy friend; befriend thy greatest foe;
Be just in all things; make amends
For follies past, and, with warm heart,
Forgive, and be forgiven. Let work not words
Thy virtue prove. Go act as well as prate,
And then thy counsels will be strong,
Thy reprimands avail. —ANON
THE province of the historian is to gather the threads of the past ere they elude forever his grasp and weave them into a harmonious web to which the art preservative may give immortality. Therefore he who would rescue from fast gathering oblivion the deeds of a community and send them on to futurity in an imperishable record should deliver a plain unvarnished tale.
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Treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs:
1891 - Quotations, English
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Exercises, rules, and hints on elocution
http://books.google.com/books?id=ICMCAAAAQAAJ George Walter Baynham - 1881
The Poetical works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
http://books.google.com/books?id=vig-AAAAYAAJ John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray - 1836
History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter
http://books.google.com/books?id=k9AwAQAAMAAJ J.H. Beers & Co - 1890
Much instruction from little reading: or, extracts from some of the most approved authors, ancient and modern
http://books.google.com/books?id=Y0oLAAAAYAAJ 1827
Treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs:
http://books.google.com/books?id=e-UsAAAAYAAJ Adam Woolbever (comp.), comp Adam Woolbever - 1881
The works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young - Volume 3
http://books.google.com/books?id=AU4oAAAAYAAJ Edward Young - 1811
Elegant extracts - Volumes 1-2
http://books.google.com/books?id=Vj4UAAAAYAAJ Vicesimus Knox - 1809
Paradise lost: in twelve parts
http://books.google.com/books?id=ckQ1AAAAMAAJ John Milton, Edward Young - 1849
Poems divine and moral: many of them now first published
http://books.google.com/books?id=k0B2itLvoBgC 1821
The Cynosure: being select passages from the most distinguished writers
http://books.google.com/books?id=jt8sAAAAYAAJ 1837
The Essays of "George Eliot"
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1406851086 George Eliot, Nathan Sheppard - 2009
Ravensdale: A Tale - Volume 2
http://books.google.com/books?id=c8wwAQAAMAAJ Robert Thynne - 1845
The Universalist leader - Volume 35, Issue 43
http://books.google.com/books?id=ztXmAAAAMAAJ 1932
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