WordsToLiveBy

Art thou dejected?
Is thy mind o'ercast?
To chase thy gloom,
Go fix some weighty truth;
Chain down some passion; do some generous good;
Teach Ignorance to see, or Grief to smile;
Correct thy friend; befriend thy greatest foe;
Be just in all things; make amends
For follies past, and, with warm heart,
Forgive, and be forgiven. Let work not words
Thy virtue prove. Go act as well as prate,
And then thy counsels will be strong,
Thy reprimands avail. —ANON

THE province of the historian is to gather the threads of the past ere they elude forever his grasp and weave them into a harmonious web to which the art preservative may give immortality. Therefore he who would rescue from fast gathering oblivion the deeds of a community and send them on to futurity in an imperishable record should deliver a plain unvarnished tale.

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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate
by Henry Southgate - 1862...
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Treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs:
1891 - Quotations, English
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Exercises, rules, and hints on elocution
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George Walter Baynham - 1881

The Poetical works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
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John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray - 1836

History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter
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J.H. Beers & Co - 1890

Much instruction from little reading: or, extracts from some of the most approved authors, ancient and modern
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1827

Treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs:
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Adam Woolbever (comp.), comp Adam Woolbever - 1881

The works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young - Volume 3
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Edward Young - 1811

Elegant extracts - Volumes 1-2
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Vicesimus Knox - 1809

Paradise lost: in twelve parts
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John Milton, Edward Young - 1849

Poems divine and moral: many of them now first published
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1821

The Cynosure: being select passages from the most distinguished writers
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1837

The Essays of "George Eliot"
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George Eliot, Nathan Sheppard - 2009

Ravensdale: A Tale - Volume 2
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Robert Thynne - 1845

The Universalist leader - Volume 35, Issue 43
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1932

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