--ENGLISH PROVERB.
SELF-DENIAL.--Self-denial is the quality of which Jesus Christ set us
the example.--ARY SCHEFFER.
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust
gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight
and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.--PHILLIPS
BROOKS.
Self-denial is a virtue of the highest quality, and he who has it not,
and does not strive to acquire it, will never excel in anything.
--CONYBEARE.
The more a man denies himself the more he shall obtain from God.
--HORACE.
The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best
which teaches everything else, and not that.--JOHN STERLING.
SELFISHNESS.--Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will
forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.--BEECHER.
It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who
desires to go thither alone.--FELTHAM.
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more
happiness than we should know what to do with.--H.W. SHAW.
We erect the idol self, and not only wish others to worship, but
worship ourselves.--CECIL.
SILENCE.--Be silent, or say something better than silence.--PYTHAGORAS.
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken,
And yet so profound, so loud, and so far,
It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken,
And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.
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