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Thunder and lightning are believed not to occur in the Arctic or Antarctic regions, beyond the seventy-fifth degree of north latitude; and even as low as the seventieth degree these phenomena are very rare.

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This will keep good for several months in bottles well corked, and a piece of camphor in each. My hair and I are quits, d'ye see? - I cut my hair - it now cuts me.

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Harbor not revenge in thy breast, it will torment thy heart, and discolor its best inclinations

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Hath any one wronged thee? be bravely revenged. Slight it, and the work has begun; forgive it, and it is finished.

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Endeavor to be first in thy calling whatever it be, neither let any one go before thee in well-doing; nevertheless, do not envy the merits of another, but improve thine own talents.

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No young man really believes he shall ever die. There is a feeling of eternity in youth which makes us amends for every thing. Death, old age, are words without a meaning - a dream, a fiction. To be young is to be as one of the immortals.

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If you woo the company of angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

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Take care always to form your establishment so much within your income as to leave a sufficient fund for unexpected contingencies and a prudent liberality. There is hardly a day in any man's life in which a small sum of ready money may not be employed to great advantage.

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Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes or habitation.

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A Frenchman being afflicted with the gout, was asked what difference there was between that and the rheumatism. "One very great deferance!" replied Monsieur. "Suppose you take one vice, you put your finger in, you turn de screw till you bear him no longer - dat is the rheumatis - den, spose you give him one turn more, dat is de gout."

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We have heard of a wo aid-be wit who kept a nutmeg-grater on his table, in order to say when a great man was mentioned, "There's a greater."

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Bridget, just arrived from sweet Erin, and snugly ensconced; with a genteel family as maid of all work, sat down to her first meal. Having diminished the substantials, she came to an apple-pie. It was something entirely new to her. She viewed it from all quarters, and examined it very minutely. She then removed the upper-crust and commenced eating the apple, carefully scraping it from the under-crust. Her mistress observed her, and said, "Bridget, why do you eat the pie in that manner?" A little startled, Bridget looked up, and exclaimed. "Does ye think I'd be ateing the boxing?"

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A Yankee sitting on a very hard seat in a railway carriage, said, "Wal, they tell me these here cushions air stuffed with feathers. They may have put the feathers in 'em, but darn me if I don't think they've left the fowls in too!"

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A parish official, of sedate manners, fell on the pavement, during a frost, for the sufficient reason that he was intoxicated. Turning to the bystanders, he asked. "Are our by-laws to be enforced or not, I should like to know? Why don't you spread ashes before your houses!"

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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

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There is nothing in the universe more desirable than a free mind. So long as a man has this, he has that which nothing can subdue, he has that which nothing can subvert, he has that which renders him a monarch, though he may lie down upon the bare cold bosom of his mother earth.

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Good temper is the philosophy of the heart - a gem of the treasury within, whose rays are reflected on all outward objects; a perpetual sunshine, imparting warmth, light, and life to all within the spheres of its influence.

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Like his counterpart Shakspeare, Sir Walter Scott was much given to punning. Among a thousand instances of this propensity in the latter, we record one. A friend borrowing a book one day, Sir Walter put it into his hands with these words: "Now, I consider it necessary to remind you, that this volume should be soon returned; for, trust me, I find that although many of my friends are bad arithmeticians, almost all of them are good bookkeepers."

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A young divine, who was much given to enthusiastic cant, one day said to Dr. Laythorpe, "Do you suppose that you have any real religion?" "None to speak of" was the excellent reply.

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Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender woman, who had been all weakness and dependence while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortunes. As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will when the hardy tree is rifted by the thunder-bolts, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs, so woman, who is the dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity.

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Recently, a clergyman, while announcing from his pulpit an appointment for the ladies of his congregation to meet at the Orphan's Asylum, on a beneficiary visit to the institution, closed the announcement with the following words: "The ladies will take with them their own refreshments, so as not to eat up the orphans."

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How lamentable that we should go through the world so misunderstanding one another; letting slip golden opportunities for glimpses into men's better nature, which might have knit our hearts to theirs for ever in a brotherhood of love, and drawn the veil of charity over faults which, in our blindness, seemed to us without a virtue to balance them.

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Angels turn sorrowing away from this sour blindness of ours, and fiends laugh over the final fall of despair which our helping hand might at such moments have averted. Well for us all; it is that he who is himself without sin, more merciful than man, sees gathering tears in eyes that we deem hard and dry.