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EARLY RISING.-Whoever has tasted the breath of morning, knows that the most invigorating and delightful hours of the day are commonly spent in bed, though it is the evident intention of nature that we should profit by them.-Southey.

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to turn out.-- - Wellington.

The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning, for forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life. -Doddridge.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.-Aristotle.

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.-Colton.

The early morning hath gold in its mouth. -Franklin.

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.-Flint,

Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.J. Todd.

Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise to lie in dead oblivion, losing half the fleeting moments of too short a life?--Thomson.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."-Lord Chatham.

He who rises late may trot all day, and not overtake his business at night.-Franklin.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. -Swift.

Every night I make up my mind to rise early the next morning, but every morning make up my body to lie still.

Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Those who would bring great things to pass must rise early.- Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.-M. Henry.

EARNESTNESS.-Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.-Pascal.

There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.-Dickens. A man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find, creates them.-Channing.

Do you wish to become rich ?--You may become so if you desire it in no half-way, but thoroughly.-Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment?-Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet.-This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest ; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.F. W. Robertson.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. It is the cause of patience; gives endurance; overcomes pain; strengthens weakness: braves dangers; sustains hope; makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.Bovee.

Earnestness commands the respect of mankind. A wavering, vacillating, deadand-alive Christian does not get the respect of the Church or of the world.-John Hall.

There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.—A. H. K. Boyd.

Without earnestness no man is ever great or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight.-Bayne.

To impress others we must be earnest ; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.-Tuckerman.

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.-Confucius.

"Earnestness gives intellect," says a maxim of the Jesuits; and so says Solomon, in various expressions in the book of Proverbs. And says Bulwer, "Earnestness is the best source of mental power: and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great."

Man should trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor as earnestly as if he himself did all.-Chalmers.

EARTH.-The waters deluge man with rain, oppress him with hail, and drown him with inundations; the air rushes in storms, prepares the tempest, or lights up the volcano; but the earth, gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants of man, spreads his walks with flowers, and his table with plenty; returns, with interest, every good committed to her care; and though she produces the poison, she still supplies the andidote; though constantly

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teased more to furnish the luxuries of man than his necessities, yet even to the last she continues her kind indulgence, and, when life is over, she piously covers his remains in her bosom.-Pliny.

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.-Shakespeare.

I believe the earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions, to which a moving crowd is forever pressing. -Joanna Baillie.

Where is the dust that has not been alive?-The spade and the plough disturb our ancestors.-From human mold we reap our daily bread.-Young.

The earth's a stage which God and nature do with actors fill.-Heywood.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.-Coleridge.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.-Watts.

EATING. The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself.-Do you seek sauce by labor?-Horace.

The turnpike road to most people's hearts, I find, lies through their mouths, or I mistake mankind.-Wolcott.

Simple diet is best, for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.-Pliny.

Go to your banquet, then, but use delight, so as to rise still with an appetite.Herrick.

For the sake of health, medicines are taken by weight and measure; so ought food to be, or by some similar rule.-Skelton.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this-the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.Sir W. Raleigh.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.Franklin.

By eating what is sufficient man is enabled to work; he is hindered from working and becomes heavy, idle, and stupid if he takes too much.-As to bodily distempers occasioned by excess, there is no end of them.-Jones.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.Shakespeare.

ECCENTRICITY.-Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius, but when they do, they are its misfortunes

and blemishes.-The man of true genius will be ashamed of them, or, at least, will never affect to be distinguished by them.Sir W. Temple.

Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity. Balzac.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded. And the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained.-J. S. Mill.

He that will keep a monkey, should pay for the glasses he breaks.-Selden.

ECHO.-That tuneful nymph, the babbling echo, who has not learned to conceal what is told her, nor yet is able to speak till another speaks.-Ovid.

The shadow of a sound; a voice without a mouth, and words without a tongue.Horace Smith.

The babbling gossip of the air.-Shakespeare.

Where we find echoes we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.-Boyes.

ECONOMY.-If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.-Franklin.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease; and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness, and health and profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debts, and so fetters them with irons that enter into their inmost souls.-Hawkesworth.

Economy is in itself a source of great revenue.- -Seneca.

Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift. He is already poverty-stricken whose habits are not thrifty.-T. T. Munger.

A sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action. It is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foresceing contingencies and providing against them: it is expecting contingencies and being prepared for them.--Hannah More.

To make three guineas do the work of five.-Burns.

Men talk in raptures of youth and beauty, wit and sprightliness; but after seven years of union, not one of them is to be compared to good family management, which is seen at every meal, and felt every hour in the husband's purse.- Witherspoon.

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The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt, who is to leave us something at last.-Shenstone.

Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteely; and waste on the other, by which, on the same income, another man lives 'shabbily, cannot be defined, It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.-Johnson.

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.-Johnson.

It is no small commendation to manage a little well.---To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person.-I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.Bp. Hall.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.-Publius Syrus.

No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.-Haliburton.

Economy, whether public or private, means the wise management of labor, mainly in three senses; applying labor rationally, preserving its produce carefully, and distributing its produce seasonably.Ruskin.

A man's ordinary expenses ought to be but to the half of his receipts, and if he think to wax rich, but to the third part.Bacon.

Economy before competence is meanness after it; therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.-Bovee.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he that has a great deal left him does to his father's care.-Penn.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.-Plutarch.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.-H. Taylor.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity; there is no fear of your not being one in adversity.-Zimmerman.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.-T. T. Munger.

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.-Cicero.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.-Franklin.

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a wellproportioned expenditure.-Hannah More.

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living much beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair."-Addison.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone and die not worth a groat after all.-Franklin.

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money, as to spend it well.-Spurgeon.

Ere you consult fancy, consult your purse.-Franklin.

The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength. Burton.

The back door robs the house.-Herbert. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.-Franklin.

There are but two ways of paying a debt; increase of industry in raising income, or increase of thrift in laying out.-Carlyle.

EDUCATION.-(See "TEACHING.")

Education is the apprenticeship of life.Willmott.

A human being is not, in any proper sense, a human being till he is educated.II. Mann.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. The philosopher, the saint, the hero, the wise, and the good, or the great, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light.-Addison.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations of others. -Tryon Edwards.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to

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load the memory with the thoughts of other men.-Beattie.

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.-Ruskin.

Education begins with life. Before we are aware the foundations of character are laid, and subsequent teaching avails but little to remove or alter them.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.-Franklin.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society.

Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education. The feelings are to be disciplined; the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education.-Daniel Webster.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us? -Mrs. Sigourney.

Promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.- Washington.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.-A. B. Alcott.

Planting colleges and filling them with studious young men and women is planting seed corn for the world.-Judson.

I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.-Milton.

We all have two educations, one from others, and another, and the most valuable, which we give ourselves. It is this last which fixes our grade in society, and eventually our actual condition in this life, and the color of our fate hereafter. All the professors and teachers in the world would not make you a wise or good man without your own co-operation; and if such you are determined to be, the want of them will not prevail.-John Randolph.

It is a great art in the education of youth to find out peculiar aptitudes, or where none exist, to create inclinations which may serve as substitutes.-D. M. Moir.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress-no crime destroy-no enemy alienate-no despotism enslave. At home, a friend; abroad, an introduction; in solitude, a solace; and in society, an ornament. Without it, what is man?-a splendid slave, a reasoning savage.- Varle. Education, briefly, is the leading human minds and souls to what is right and best, and to making what is best out of them. -And these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means.The training which makes men happiest in themselves, also makes them most serviceable to others.-Ruskin.

He is to be educated not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.-Channing.

To know the laws of God in nature and revelation, and then to fashion the affections and will into harmony with those laws-this is education.-S. F. Scovel.

The greatest evil of modern education is the evil which it inflicts on health.-O. S. Fowler.

The greatest and noblest work in the world, and an effect of the greatest prudence and care, is to rear and build up a man, and to form and fashion him to piety, justice, temperance, and all kinds of honest and worthy actions.-Tillotson.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrists.-Sterling.

Education is only like good culture; it changes the size, but not the sort.-H. W. Beecher.

A true education-what is it? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because "honesty is the best policy," but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action, because so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

Universal suffrage, without universal education, would be a curse.-H. L. Wayland.

A true education aims to implant a love of knowledge; an adherence to truth be

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cause it is truth; a reverence for man because he is a man; an enthusiasm for liberty: a spirit of candor, of breadth, of sympathy; and, above all, a supreme regard for duty. -H. L. Wayland.

Educate men without religion, and you make them but clever devils.- Wellington.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.—Garfield.

The public mind is educated quickly by events-slowly by arguments.

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.-Saadi.

The parent who sends his son out into the world uneducated, defrauds the community of a useful citizen, and bequeaths a nuisance.-James Kent.

The true object of education should be to train one to think clearly and act rightly.-H. J. Van Dyke.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.-Everett.

An industrions and virtuous education of children is a better inheritance for them than a great estate.-Addison.

The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupations that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible.-Sidney Smith.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.-Emerson.

He that has found a way to keep a child's spirit easy, active, and free, and yet at the same time to restrain him from many things he has a mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him, has, in my opinion, got the true secret of education.-Locke.

I call education, not that which is made up of shreds and patches of useless arts; but that which inculcates principles, polishes taste, regulates temper, cultivates reason, subdues the passions, directs the feelings, habituates to reflection, trains to self-denial, and, more especially, that which refers all actions, feelings, sentiments, tastes, and passions, to the love and fear of God.-Hannah More.

The education of our children is never out of my mind. Train them to virtue, habituate them to industry, activity, and

spirit. Make them consider every vice as shameful and unmanly. Fire them with ambition to be useful. Make them disdain to be destitute of any useful knowledge.-John Adams to his wife.

Of ten infants, destined for different vocations, I should prefer that the one who is to study through life should be the least learned at the age of twelve.-Tissot.

For their learning be liberal. Spare no cost; for by such parsimony all is lost that is saved; but let it be useful knowledge, such as is consistent with truth and godliness, not cherishing a vain conversation or idle mind; ingenuity mixed with industry is good for the body and the mind too.-Penn to his wife.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.-Burke,

The education of children should not be forced, like the growth of plants in the hothouse. The more haste in this matter, the less speed in the end. It is from too early forcing the intellect, from premature, precocious mental growth, that we see in modern times, so many cases of wilted, and feeble, and sickly children; or of remarkable, wonderful children, who grow up to be prodigies by their second or third year, and die by the next.-Tryon Edwards.

Intellectual effort in the early years of life, is very injurious. All labor of mind required of children before the seventh year is in opposition to the laws of nature, and will prove injurious to the physical organization, and prevent its proper and mature development.-Hufeland.

The college, appealing immediately to the mental part, is yet to train every part. It is doing its duty only when it causes man to regulate appetite, to crush passion, to guide desires, to quicken affections, to prevent wrong, and to stimulate right choices.-C. F. Thuring.

It should be the aim of education to make men first, and discoveries afterward; to regard mere learning as subordinate to the development of a well-rounded, solid, moral, and intellectual character; as the first and great thing, to supply vigorous, intelligent, God-fearing citizens for the welfare of the land.-H. J. Vandyke.

Experience demonstrates that of any number of children of equal intellectual powers, those who receive no particular care in infancy, and who do not begin to study till the constitution begins to be consolidated, but who enjoy the benefit of a good physical education, very soon surpass in their studies those who commenced