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111. "Time," said Dr. Franklin, " is money;" yet if time produce you nothing but money, eternity will give you nothing but misery.

112. Men have contrived instruments to measure the motion of time, but they have no scales to weigh, no figures to compute, no words to describe its value.

113. Vain amusement which many call passtime is rather a contrivance to waste time.

114. Be more careful of your time than the miser is of his gol.

115. Life is continually ravaged by invaders; one steals away an hour, another a day; one conceals the robbery by hurrying us into business, another by lulling us with amusement.

Dr. Johnson.

116. When you cut out your time for various duties, make the most of it, and let none of the fragments be lost.

117. Life is but a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot be led to good.—Mrs. More.

118. With willing heart and active hands.
Lord, I would practise thy commands;
Improve the moments as they fly,

And live as I would wish to die.-Fawcet.

On Diligence and Delay.

119. The hand of the diligent maketh rich.

120. Be slow in undertaking, but resolute in executing.-Bias.

121. Industry invigorates both the body and the mind, and is the spring of prosperity to families and to nations.

122. The sluggard has a load on his shoulders when he should rise, a lion in the way where he should walk, and a disease in his hands when he should work.

123. Idleness buries a man alive.

124. Industry gives oil to the wheels of business, and sweetness to the blessings of life.

125. An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes, as when it stands.-Cowper.

126. When you rise in the morning, consider what you have to do, and when you retire at night what you have done.

127. Leave not that for to-morrow which ought to be done to-day.

128. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Dr. Young.

129. Linger not in dilatory preparation till the door of opportunity be shut.

130. Sloth destroys many a wise resolution, as rust eats away the good metal on which it grows.

131. Be diligent in little things, and remember "That for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy."

132. Good thoughts are apt to vanish away if they be not speedily embodied in good actions.

133. Travellers report the following to be a saying of the lazy Indians of Ceylon. "It is better to stand than to walk: better to sit than to stand: better to lie down than to sit : better to sleep than to be awake: and death is best of all." The slothful man who feels life a burden may take this as his catechism.-Cordiner.

134. The richest sweets are all lost to the drone of indolence.

135. When heaven sends the gale,

The seaman must sail.

Or bear all the blame
If the voyage should fail.

136. The diligent farmer seldom complains that he has nothing to do. He is still engaged

mending his fences or tending his flocks, sowing his seed or reaping his harvest.

137. In the industrious husbandman you see, What the true Christian is or ought to be.

138. He who is not usefully employed,

Flavel.

Will be by the tempter constantly annoyed.

139. Difficulties are diminished by promptitude, but doubled by delay.

140. Order in planning and perseverance in executing are the two grand secrets of dispatch.

PART II.

RELIGIOUS MAXIMS.

On Piety in general.

141. PIETY is the brightest ornament and the best safeguard of youth.

142. As under the law the first fruits were to be consecrated to God, so ought the first and best years of life.

143. Early religion lays the foundation of happiness both in time and eternity.-Dr. Doddridge.

144. True piety is light in the understanding, peace in the conscience, purity in the affections, and consistency in the life.

145. Persons may go far in religion, but not far enough; they may be convinced but not converted; like Saul, they may have another heart, but not a new heart.-Jay."

146. Religion would have no enemies, if it was not an enemy to vice.-Fenelon.

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