--ADDISON.
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the
moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the
Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his
existence.--SOUTHEY.
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the
immortal symphonies which invite me.--VICTOR HUGO.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are
immortal and divine.--SOCRATES.
Immortality o'ersweeps all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and
peals, like the eternal thunder of the deep, into my ears this truth:
Thou livest forever!--BYRON.
INDEPENDENCE.--It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him
independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.--COBBETT.
These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go
together,--manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and
manly self-reliance.--WORDSWORTH.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill;
We may be independent if we will.
--CHURCHILL.
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she
never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.--POPE.
INDUSTRY.--Industry is a Christian obligation, imposed on our race
to develop the noblest energies, and insures the highest reward.
--E.L. MAGOON.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before
kings.--PROVERBS 22:29.
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