He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.-Johnson. 48. Think twice before you speak once and you will speak twice the better for it. twice. 49. The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.-Longfellow. 50. A man of little learning is like the frog who, having never seen the ocean, thinks its well a great sea.—Burmese Proverb. 51. Thy friend has a friend and thy friend's fri nd has a friend, so be a eet.-Talmud. 52. Let our o.ject be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.-Daniel Webster. 53. Circumstances? I make circumstances.-Napoleon. 54. The moment the skill of the artist is perceived, the spell of the art is broken.-Macaulay. 55. Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. -Wesley. 56. We can only escape the arbitrariness of the judge by placing ourselves under the despotism of the law.—Napoleon. 57. Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies.-Pope. 58. He who saith there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.—Bishop Berkeley. 59. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.-Shakespeare. 60. No really great man ever thought himself so.-Haz 61. True politeness consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.-Chesterfield. 62. You had better return a fan gracefully than give a thousand pounds awkwardly.-Chesterfield. 63. The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.-Mencius. 64. Who speaketh kind words hath many friends, but the harsh man hath but few.-Burmese Proverb. 65. So live with thy friend that if he become thine enemy he can do thee no harm.-Tully. 66. No friend is a friend until he shall prove a friend.— Beaumont and Fletcher. 67. He who hunts for flowers, will find flowers; he who loves weeds may find weeds.—Beecher. 68. Little minds are hurt by little things; great minds rise above them.-La Rochefoucauld. 69. Words pass away but actions rem -Napoleon. 70. Woman can do everything, because she rules those who command everything.-French Proverb. 71. Go to your rich friend's house when invited, to your poor friend's house without invitation.-Portuguese. 72. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.-Washington. 73. Even the fool is wise after the event.-Homer. 74. The nickel plating gives no power to the engine. 75. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.-Bible. 76. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. Addison. 77. To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.-Coleridge. √78. 78. He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, cooly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of man. -Lavater. 79. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.—Bible. 80. It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples.Colton. 81. Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.-Addison. 82. People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.-Sterne. 83. A man must first govern himself, ere he be fit to govern a family; and his family, ere he be fit to bear the government in the commonwealth.-Sir Walter Raleigh. 84. Possession is eleven points in the law.-Cibber. 85. If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.Swift. 86. He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.-Phædrus. 87. It matters not how long you live, but how well.— Publius Syrus. 88. The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.-Emerson. 89. We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.-Emerson. 90. Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.-Pitt. 1. p as in peep 2. b as in bib 3. t as in tot 4. d as in did 5. ch as in church 6. j as in judge 7. k as in kick 8. g as in gig 9. f as in fife 10. v as in vivid 11. th as in thin 12. th as in then TABLE OF CONSONANTS. 13. s as in sauce 14. z as in zone 25. h as in hat CONSONANT PRACTICE. Utter distinctly, giving a quick, decisive accent to first syllable: 1. (Lips). Peepuh, beebuh; feefuh, veevuh; wewuh, wheewhuh; kweekwuh; meemuh. 2. (Tongue). Teetuh, deeduh ; thethuh, theethuh; seesuh, zeezuh; reeruh; sheeshuh, zheezhuh; neenuh; cheechuh, jeejuh, leeluh. 3. (Jaw). Yeeyuh; keekuh, geeguh. 4. 5. (Abdominal muscles). Heehuh. Practice 1, 2, 3 and 4 of above, using ah and ō in place of "ee," as—pahpuh, bahbuh, etc.; pōpuh, bōbuh, etc. DRILLS ON SELECTED CONSONANTS. T, Th, D. t as in toot. th as in thick, myth. th as in though, smooth. d as in did. |