Part 86 (1/2)

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be

--_Goethe_

1190

Love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears

1191

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of a tree If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots

--_Hawthorne_

1192

MARTIN LUTHER AND HIS FRIENDS

”My dear Veit,” said Luther, ”I have said it often and I repeat it again, whoever would know God aright and speculate concerning Hier, and learn first of all to know the Son of the Virgin Mary, born at Bethlehe upon the cross; then will he understand who God is This will not only then be not terrible, but on the contraryGuard yourself,into heaven without this ladder, apart from the Lord Jesus Christ in His humanity As the Word simple describes Him, stick to this, and do not permit reason to divert you froht! I wish to know of no other God than the God who hung upon the cross, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and of the Virgin Mary”

1193

Luther was rereater opportunity of obtaining them The Elector of Saxony offered hi, but he nobly refused it, lest it should prove an injury to him

--_Buck_

1194

LUXURY

_Dr Johnson_:--”A ardening does this occasion? How s early in the ravely, 'Why was not the half-guinea, thus spent in luxury, given to the poor? To how one to the _industrious_ poor, whom it is better to support, than the _idle_ poor? You are ood when you _pay_ money to those ork, as the recoive_ money merely in charity”

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1195

He who is too nanimous

--_Amiel_

1196

A MAIDEN'S LAMENT