Lessons in Life - A Series of Familiar Essays by Timothy Titcomb
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dignity and beauty, and grateful and improvable leisure.
LESSON XIII. REPOSE. "Peace, greatness best becomes; calm power doth guide With a far more imperious stateliness Than all the swords of violence can do, And easier gains those ends she tends unto." DANIEL. "When headstrong passion gets the reins of reason, The force of nature, like too strong a gale, For want of ballast oversets the vessel." HIGGONS. "Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of hearts, As I do thee." SHAKSPEARE. Mrs. Flutter Budget was at church last Sunday, She always is at church; and she never forgets her fan. I have known her for many years, and have never known her to be in church without a fan in her hand, and some article upon her person that rustled constantly. Her black silk dress is death to devotion over the space of twenty feet on all sides of her. She fixes the wires in |
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