--PARKE GODWIN.
What gem hath dropp'd and sparkles o'er his chain?
The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,
That starts at once--bright--pure--from pity's mine,
Already polish'd by the Hand Divine.
--BYRON.
Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.--SPURGEON.
TACT.--Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate
those you cannot conquer.--COLTON.
A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force
might vainly strive to overcome.
TALENT.--Talent of the highest order, and such as is calculated to
command admiration, may exist apart from wisdom.--ROBERT HALL.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line
of talent. Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be
anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
--SYDNEY SMITH.
Talent without tact is only half talent.--HORACE GREELEY.
TALKING.--Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one
tongue. Draw your own moral.--ALPHONSE KARR.
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.--OUIDA.
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a
bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely
with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.--PLUTARCH.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoken can never be recalled.
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