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We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.-BARTOL.

Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.-BOUHOURS.

By doing good with his money, a man as it were stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.RUTLEDGE.

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.-COLTON.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.-CARLYLE.

Morality. In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say, Is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another: Is there any harm in letting it alone?-COLTON.

To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.-LOCKE.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.-WASHINGTON.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals where one has failed from defect in intellect.HORACE MANN.

Socrates taught that true felicity is not to be derived from external possessions, but from wisdom, which consists in the knowledge and practice of virtue; that the cultivation of virtuous manners is necessarily attended with pleasure as well as profit; that the honest man alone is happy; and that it is absurd to attempt to separate things which are in nature so closely united as virtue and interest. -ENFIELD.

The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.—FROUDE.

Morality without religion, is only a kind of dead reckoning,-an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have to run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.-LONGFELLOW.

The system of morality which Socrates made it the business of his life to teach was raised upon the firm basis of religion. The first principles of virtuous conduct which are common to all mankind are, according to this excellent moralist, laws of God; and the conclusive argument by which he supports this opinion is, that no man departs from these principles with impunity.— ENFIELD.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.-VOLTAIRE.

Mother. The mother in her office holds the key of the soul.-OLD PLAY.

There is a sight all hearts beguiling-
A youthful mother to her infant smiling,
Who with spread arms and dancing feet,
A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.

-BAILLIE.

"What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to Madame Campan, in order that the youth of France be well educated?'' "Good mothers, was the reply. The emperor was most forcibly struck with this answer. "Here, "said he, "is a system in one word."-ABBOTT.

A mother is a mother still,

The holiest thing alive.

-COLERIDGE.

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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.-WASHINGTON IRVING.

If there be aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a mother's love!-MARCHIONESS DE SPADARA.

I think it must somewhere be written, that the virtues of mothers shall, occasionally, be visited on their children, as well as the sins of fathers. DICKENS.

Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. -RICHTER.

The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul.-LAMENNAIS.

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.-GEORGE HERBERT.

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"An ounce of mother, says the Spanish proverb, "is worth a pound of clergy."-T. W. HIG

GINSON.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;

A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
-HOLMES.

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion or the gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever gives us.-BOVEE.

All that I am, my mother made me.-J. Q. ADAMS.

Mourning. He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.-YOUNG.

Of permanent mourning there is none; no cloud remains fixed. The sun will shine to-morrow.RICHTER.

Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.-XENOPHON.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.-BURKE. No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled. -SHAKESPEare.

Music.-Music is the medicine of an afflicted mind, a sweet sad measure is the balm of a wounded spirit; and joy is heightened by exultant strains.-HENRY GILES.

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.-CHARLES G. LELAND.

Music is the fourth great material want of our natures, first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.-BOVEE.

When griping grief the heart doth wound,
And doleful dumps the mind oppress,
Then music, with her silver sound,
With speedy help doth lend redress.

-SHAKESPEARE.

Some of the fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination; as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself. SIR W. TEMPLE.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.- EMERSON.

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. -CONGREVE.

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears.
-BYRON.

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.

-SHAKESPEARE.

O, pleasant is the welcome kiss
When day's dull round is o'er;
And sweet the music of the step
That meets us at the door.

-J. R. DRAKE.
Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words.
-BARRY CORNWALL.

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