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As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe: so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
He that would change with another must take the cup as it is mixed Poverty with largeness of heart or a [illegible] purse with a sordid spirit.
Planets govern not the soul nor guide the destiny of man But trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character
Judge not of things by their events neither of character by providence And [?] not a man [?] evil because he is more unfortunate For the blessings of a better covenant he not in the sunshine of prosperity But pain and chastisement the rather show the wise Father's love
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Let us then he up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait
Prayer is the [?]sincere desire offered or expressed. the notion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast.
When e'er a duty waits for thee With safer judgement view it and never idly wish it done Begin at once and do it
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If you are told to do a thing And mean to it really Never let it be by halves. Do it fully freely.
A happy life is like neither a roaring torrent nor a stagnant pool. but a placid and crystal stream that flows gently and smoothly along.
Deal with another as you'd have Another deal with you. What you're unwilling to receive Be sure you never do. Be you to the other kind & true As you'd hope others be to you And never do or say to men What you would not take again.
Bad thoughts a thief! Reach his part Creeps through the window of the heart And if he once his way each win He lets a hundred others in.
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He frequeth best who bareth best All thing both great and small For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all. S.T Coleridge
Man must know that in the theatre of human life it remaineth on [?] in God and the angels to be lookers on. Lord Bacon.
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there perpetual dispair. [despair]
A sacred burden is the life ye hear Look on it lift it hear it solemnly Hand up and walk beneath it steadfastly Fail not for sorrow falter not for sin
Tis education forms the common mind And as the twig is but the tree inclined
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Little efforts work great actions Lessons in our childhood taught Mould the spirit and the trinkle Whereby blessed deeds are wrought
Pitch thy behavior low thy prospect high So shall thou humbly [illegible] be Think not in spirit [illegible] at the sky Shoot higher much that be that mean
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts -Sir P. Sidney
Halil is a calf. She weave a thread of it every day and at lad we [illegible] break it.
Some thing the heart must have to [illegible] Must love and joy and [illegible] learn Something with passion clark or perish And in it self is other harm.
Arithmetic will teach us how To reckon and to count.