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To each his sufferings; all are men
Condemned alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,

The unfeeling for his own.

THOS. GRAY, 1716.

Thou art safe, and I, with thee.
Go where we will, this hand in thine,
Those eyes before me smiling thus,

Through good and ill, through storm and shine,
The world's a world of love for us. T. MOORE.

From how much evil to come in this life, into what blessedness in the Better Land, they may have been taken, how and why it was expedient for them and for us that they should have gone away-we know not now, but we shall know hereafter.

Sermons on Special Occasions: DEAN STANLEY.

June 12.

Born not for ourselves but for our friends, our

country, and our glory.

Confiding when the world is hard,

And kind when it is cold,

RANDOLPH.

What wealth of love is stored and barred
Within a heart of gold!

ANON.

Domestic happiness will stamp thy fate Sacred to Love, unclouded e'er by hate, The world admire thee, and thy friends adore. Remember, in absence, in sorrow, and pain, There's one heart, unchanging, that beats but for thee.

BYRON.

T. MOORE.

Set a few suns, a few more days decline, and I shall meet you.

The evening brings all home.

DR. DODD.

FOSBERY.

June 12.

Speech is silver, silence is golden. Dutch Proverb. A pure, single, and stable spirit, is not distracted, though it be employed in many works; for that it doeth all to the honour of God, and being at rest within seeketh not itself in anything it doth.

THOMAS A KEMPIS.

One sacred oath has tied our loves,

One destiny our life shall guide,

No wild, no deep, our common way divide.

PRIOR.

Heaven and yourself had part in this fair maid,
Now Heaven hath all, and all the better is it for the

maid;

Your part in her you could not keep from death,
But Heaven keeps his part in eternal life.

SHAKESPEARE.
There is healing in the bitter cup. SHAKESPEARE.

June 14.

Success is seldom to the wise denied,
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

CRABBE.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

POPE.

Woman! thou hast subdued me. ANON. Marriage promotes the interest of mankind, and is that state of good things to which God hath designed the perfect constitution of the world. JEREMY TAYLOR.

Ever the richest, tenderest glow,
Set round th' autumnal sun;

But where sight fails, no heart may know
The bliss when life is done.

KEBLE.

June 14.

It is a difficult and rare virtue to mean what we say, to love without dissimulation, to think no evil, bear no grudge, to be free from selfishness, to be innocent and straightforward.

DR. NEWMAN.

The sweetest womanhood that ever girl put on.
ED. SALISBURY.

My love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments cost.
Having thee, of all men's pride, I boast.

SHAKESPEARE.

Excessive love can work such miracles.

MASSINGER.

Thy spirit has not passed away, no sleep its vision shrouds ;

It has but passed into the light, the light beyond the clouds. Songs of Many Seasons: MRS. CHARLES.

June 16.

The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.

VOLTAIRE.

Keep therefore a true woman's eye
And love me well, yet know not why;
So hast thou the same reason still

To dote upon me ever.

WILBYE'S Madrigals, 1598.

In expectance of the second life,

When time shall be no more, thy sacred dust
Sleeps with her kings, and dignifies the scene.

THOMSON.

Oh! who would keep her soul from being free! Maiden beloved of Heaven, to die is best for thee. SOUTHEY.

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