"He is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart."

RAY from the heart,

PRAY

Discard pretence and art,

Much Ado, I. I.

Concentrate all your thoughts on God alone!

Bow reverently the knee,

And from the earth set free,

Say from your inmost soul: "Thy will be done."

February 13.

"O, what man dare do! What men may do!

What men daily do! not knowing

What they do!"

Much Ado, IV. 1.

S 'twas in Shakespeare's days so 'tis to-day, Men knowing what is right still do the wrong;

They do what's wrong, and then they go their way Calmly indifferent 'midst the busy throng.

L

"Love moderately-long love doth so ;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."

Romeo and Juliet, II. 6.

OVE knows no moderation, obstacle, nor ties, 'Tis blind and deaf to all but love.

It lives but in the glamour of those eyes

That kindled first the passion of that love.

February 15.

"When words are scarce they're seldom spent in vain, For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain." Richard II. II. 1.

L

AST words impress because they are the last;

They echo in the future and recur

When wand'ring thoughts revert to days long past, Alike in life's repose and in its stir.

"That man that hath a tongue I say is no man
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

H

Two Gentlemen of Verona, III. 1.

OW women oft are won 'tis hard to say,

I sometimes think they give themselves away.

February 17.

"Thought 's the slave of life and life's time's fool;
And time that takes survey of all the world

Must have a stop."

N°

I Henry IV. V. 4.

O life, no thought! aye there's the question
Which racks the mind of every thinking

man,

And birth may give to many a wild suggestion
That from this present life repose doth ban.

This life's time's fool, but what of that to come?
So long as time lasts shall a life last too?
The body's dust, but what the life becomes

We know not, nor the change it may pass through.

"Great griefs, I see, medicine the less."

Cymbeline, IV. 2.

S the dark gloom of blackest night

As

Hides perils by the way,

So shall great sorrow shroud from sight
The worries of the day.

February 19.

"I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching."

Merchant of Venice, I. 2.

N vain we teach and toil and teach again

IN

If hearers see our deeds and words at strife;

Persuasive eloquence is all in vain

Unless its truth be vouched for by our life.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls."

2 Henry VI. III. 1.

EAVE flattery and disguise, let not the wish

to please

Incline your utterance, seek not your present ease Nor mine; but speak without restraint or futile art The truth, the naked truth, though it should pierce the heart.

February 21.

"Praising what is lost

Makes the remembrance dear."

All's Well that Ends Well, V. 3.

THE We only learn to prize,

HE friend that's dead, the fortune lost

When want appraises all their worth

And loss unseals our eyes.