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It Is Observed At Sea That Men Are Never So Much Disposed To Grumble And Mutiny As When Least Employed. Hence An Old Captain, When There Was Nothing Else To Do, Would Issue The Order To "scour The Anchor.

The Reason Why So Little Is Done, Is Generally Because So Little Is Attempted.

Practical Wisdom Is Only To Be Learned In The School Of Experience. Precepts And Instruction Are Useful So Far As They Go, But, Without The Discipline Of Real Life, They Remain Of The Nature Of Theory Only.

Hope Is Like The Sun, Which, As We Journey Towards It, Casts The Shadow Of Our Burden Behind Us. ...hope Sweetens The Memory Of Experiences Well Loved. It Tempers Our Troubles To Our Growth And Our Strength. It Befriends Us In The Dark Hours, Excites Us In Bright Ones. It Lends Promise To The Future And Purpose To The Past. It Turns Discouragement To Determination. Samuel Smiles

When Typhus Or Cholera Breaks Out, They Tell Us That Nobody Is To Blame. That Terrible Nobody! How Much He Has To Answer For. More Mischief Is Done By Nobody Than By All The World Besides.