(Mary F. Tucker. That reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene,

The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air. (Gray. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. (Pope.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will. (Shakespeare.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the
Arabian proverb, and he will come up
with a fish in his mouth.

(Willis.
On the pinnacle of fortune man does not long
stand firm.
(Goethe.
Who shall shut out Fate ? (Edwin Arnold.
Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men.

(Byron.

Fate has carried me

(Tennyson.

But yet she never gave enough to any.
(Sir John Harrington.

All other doubts, by time let them be clear'd; Fortune comes well to all that comes not late. Fortune brings in some boats, that are not

steer'd.

(Shakespeare.

Some day, some day of days, threading the
street,

With idle, heedless pace,
Unlooking for such grace,
I shall behold your face!

Some day, some day of days, thus may we
(Nora Perry.

meet.

Blind to former, as to future fate,
What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

(Pope.

The irrevocable Hand

(Longfellow.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet
they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting,
with exactness grinds He all.

(Friederich von Logau.

But, O vain boast,
Who can control his fate. (Shakespeare.
Turn, turn my wheel! turn round and round
Without a pause, without a sound;

So spins the flying world away!
This clay, well mixed with marl and sand,

That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and Follows the motion of my hand;

shut

The portals of our earthly destinies;

We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless

doors

Close after us, forever.

(D. M. Mulock. He that is down can fall no lower. (Butler.

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather, When, moment on moment, there rushes be

So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one
another,

Only a look and a voice, then darkness again
and a silence.
(Longfellow.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
And some have greatness thrust upon them.
(Shakespeare.
We walk amid the currents of actions left
undone,

tween

The one and the other, a sea ;

Ah, never can fall from the days that have
been

A gleam on the years that shall be!
(Bulwer.

All are architects of Fate
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.

(Longfellow.
Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!
This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blos-

soms,

And bears his blushing honors thick upon him:

The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely

His greatness is a ripening,-nips his root,

The germs of deeds that wither before they And then he falls, as I do.

(Shakespeare.

Friendship is the holiest of gifts;
God can bestow nothing more sacred upon

us!

It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.
Everyone can have a friend,

Who himself knows how to be a friend.

(Tredge.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. (Sydney Smith.

LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS.

803

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a There are plenty of acquaintances in the sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Is made more sacred by adversity. (Dryden.
Give me the avowed, the erect, and manly foe;
Bold I can meet-perhaps may turn his
blow;

world, but very few real friends.

(Chinese Moral Maxims.

A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man,
Some sinister intent taints all he does.

(Young.
Sweeter none than voice of faithful friend;
Sweet always, sweetest heard in loudest storm.
Some I remember, and will ne'er forget.

(Pollok. Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Have no friends not equal to yourself. (Confucius.

Who heart-whole pure in faith, once written
friend,

In life and death are true, unto the end!
(John Esten Cooke
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart

(Earle.

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the candid
friend.
(George Canning.
No friend's a friend till he shall prove a
friend.
(Beaumont and Fletcher.

Dear is my friend-yet from my foe, as from
my friend, comes good;
My friend shows what I can do, and my foe
(Schiller.

what I should.

Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame.
The child, whom many fathers share,
Hath seldom known a father's care.
'Tis thus in friendships: who depend
(Gay.
On many, rarely find a friend.
For tho' the faults were thick as dust in va-
cant chambers, I could trust your kind-
(Tennyson.

ness.

GEMS FOR THE FIRESIDE.

LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS.

Thou, my all!
(Abel Stevens. My theme! my inspiration! and my crown!
My strength in age! my rise in low estate!
My soul's ambition, pleasure, wealth! my

(Buffon. Is to be happy.