Part 137 (1/2)

1907

_Thought_--How often must we repeat it?--rules the world

--_Carlyle_

1908

At a dinner when Daniel Webster was Secretary of State, after a period of silence which fell upon the couests said, ”Mr Webster, will you tell us as the ht that ever occupied your mind?” Webster slowly passed his hand over his forehead, and in a low tone enquired of one near him, ”Is there any one here who does not know ht that ever occupied my mind,”

said Webster, ”was that ofon this subject in the most solemn strain for fully ten minutes, he silently rose from the table and retired to his rooreat s Great men are not scoffers The men of flippant jeers and Godless jests are invariably men of small calibre and shallow intellect

1909

First thoughts are not always the best

--_Alfieri_

1910

In hts are best; in hts are the best

--_Rev Robert Hall_

1911

To be without evil thoughts is God's best gift

--_Aeschylus_

1912

It is said, the thuether

1913

THUNDER--A LOVER OF

Such was the spirit of a venerable [1913:A]patriarch--who shed on a very huraces--that, when the storm sent others in haste to their homes, he ont to leave his own, and to stand with upturned face, raised eye, and with his grey head uncovered, to watch the flash and listen to thethunder How fine his reply to those who expressed their wonder at his aspect and attitude--”It's my Father's voice, and I like well to hear it!” What a sublime example of the perfect love that casteth out fear?

--_From Memoir of Guthrie_

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