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Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.-Seneca.

The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time.-LAVATER.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are

gone forever!-HORACE MANN.

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time.-MASON.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any.-THOMAS JEF

FERSON.

Make use of time, if thou valuest eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled; to-morrow cannot be assured; to-day only is thine, which, if thou procrastinatest, thou losest; which loss is lost forever. -JEREMY TAYLOR.

He is a good time-server that improves the present for God's glory and his own salvation.THOMAS FULLER.

Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them -SENECA. Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.-FENELON.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. -HAWTHORNE.

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.-FRANKLIN.

Toleration.-Let us he very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.—

THACKERAY.

There is nothing to do with men but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.-DEWEY.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.ARTHUR HELPS.

It requires far more of constraining love of Christ to love our cousins and neighbors as members of the heavenly family than to feel the heart warm to our suffering brethren in Tuscany and Madeira.ELIZABETH CHARLES.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?-THOMAS À KEMPIS.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.-BEECHER.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.FÉNELON.

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.-HOSEA BALLOU.

Travel. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.--SAADI.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.--CARLO GOLDONI.

Railway traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.-RUSKIN.

To roam giddily, and be everywhere but at home. such freedom doth a banishment become.-DONNE. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.-DR. JOHNSON.

He travels safest in the dark who travels lightest. CORTES.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad. -SWIFT.

Trust. I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.-THOREAU.

Trust with a child-like dependence upon God, and you shall fear no evil, for be assured that even "if the enemy comes in like a flood" the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. While at that dread hour, when the world cannot help you, when all the powers of nature are in vain, yea, when your heart and your flesh shall fail you, you will be enabled still to rely with peace upon Him who has said "I will be the strength of thy heart and thy portion for ever."-H. BLUNT.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.-GEORGE MACDONALD.

Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.-PROVERBS 16: 20.

Truth.-There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.— WHATELY.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;

The eternal years of God are hers;

But error, wounded, writhes with pain,

And dies among his worshipers.-BRYANT. Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.-AMMIAN.

And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and mighty above all things.-ESDRAS.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smooth pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.-NEWTON.

For truth has such a face and such a mien,

As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.-DRYDEN. Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.WALTER SCOTT.

Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged by silence.-AMMIAN.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.— TILLOTSON.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.-HORACE MANN.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.-BACON.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.-CHARLES SUMNER.

The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice; and her constant companion is humility.-COLTON.

I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.-PALEY.

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.-HORACE MANN.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication, a duty.-MME. DE STAEL.

Truth is one;

And, in all lands beneath the sun,
Whoso hath eyes to see may see
The tokens of its unity.-WHITTIER.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.--TILLOTSON.

The expression of truth is simplicity.-SENECA. What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.-DEMOSTHENES.

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.-WHITTIER.

The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed, but where they speak and think and do what they must, because they are so and not otherwise.-EMERSON.

Unhappiness.-The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.-HENRY HOME. A perverse temper and fretful disposition will. wherever they prevail, render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.-CICERO.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.-GOETHE.

Vanity. All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.-AUERBACH.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.-H. W. SHAW.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.-POPE.

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