QUOTATIONS FOR JANUARY 



1. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, 

 The flying cloud, the frosty light ; 

 The year is dying in the night ; 

 Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. 



Tennyson. 



2. Ring out the old, ring in the new, 

 Ring, happy bells, across the snow ; 

 The year is going, let him go ; 

 Ring out the false, ring in the true. 



Tennyson. 



3. More helpful than all wisdom is one 



draught of simple human pity that 

 will not forsake us. George Eliot. 



4. Chill airs and wintry winds ! My ear 

 Has grown familiar with your song; 

 I hear it in the opening year 



I listen, and it cheers me long. 



Longfellow. 



5. Good health and good sense are two of 



life's greatest blessings. 



Publius Syrus. 



6. So long as we love, we serve ; and no 



man is useless while he has a friend. 

 Stevenson. 



7. Better to hunt in fields for health un- 



bought 

 Than fee the doctor for a nauseous 



draught. 



The wise for cure on exercise depend ; 

 God never made his work for man to 



mend. Dryden. 



8. Cleanness of body was ever esteemed 



to proceed from a due reverence to 

 God, to society and to ourselves. 

 Bacon. 



9. In rigorous hours, when down the iron 



lane 



The redbreast looks in vain 

 For hips and haws, 

 Lo, shining flowers upon my window- 

 pane 



The silver pencil of the winter draws. 

 Stevenson. 



10. Now, good digestion wait on appetite, 

 And health on both. Shakespeare. 



11. For strength to bear is found in duty 



done, 



And he is blest indeed who learns to 

 make 



The joy of others cure his own heart- 

 ache. Drake. 



12. Example is the school of mankind, and 



they will learn at no other. 



Burke. 



13. Old Winter is a sturdy one, 

 And lasting stuff he's made of ; 

 His flesh is firm as ironstone, 

 There's nothing he's afraid of. 



German Song. 



14. Health is the second blessing that we 



mortals are capable of a blessing 

 that money cannot buy. Walton. 



15. He prayeth best who loveth best 

 All things both great and small ; 

 For the dear God who loveth us, 

 He made and loveth all. 



Coleridge. 



16. Health is the vital principle of bliss, 

 And exercise of health. Thomson. 



17. For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; 



for want of a shoe the horse was 

 lost ; for want of a horse the rider 

 was lost. Franklin. 



18. God grants liberty only to those who 



love it, and are always ready to 

 guard and defend it. Webster. 



19. These winter nights, against my win- 



dow-pane 



Nature with busy pencil draws designs 

 Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray 



of pines, 



Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines, 

 Which she will make when summer 



comes again. Aldrich. 



20. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. 



Wesley. 



21. Nor love, nor honour, wealth nor pow'r 

 Can give the heart a cheerful hour 

 When health is lost. Gay. 



22. Some books are to be tasted, others to 



be swallowed, and some few to be 

 chewed and digested. Bacon. 



23. I block the roads and drift the fields 



with snow, 

 I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen 



fen; 

 My frosts congeal the rivers in their 



flow, 

 My fires light up the hearths and 



hearts of men. Longfellow. 



24. No one is useless in the world who 



lightens the burden of it for anyone 

 else. Dickens. 



25. A prince can mak a belted knight, 

 A marquis, duke, and a' that ; 



But an honest man's aboon his might, 

 Guid faith, he maunna fa' that. 



Burns. 



26. E'en from the body's purity, the mind 

 Receives a secret, sympathetic aid. 



Thomson. 



27. It is more blessed to give than to re- 



ceive. Bible. 



28. Ah, may I be as cheerful 

 As yonder winter birds, 

 Through ills and petty crosses, 

 With no repining words. Cooper. 



29. Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and 



watch 



Till the white-winged reapers come. 

 Vaughan. 



30. I strove with none, for none was worth 



my strife ; 

 Nature I loved, and next to Nature, 



Art. 

 I warm'd both hands against the fire 



of life, 



It sinks, and I am ready to depart. 

 Landor. 



31. It is not growing like a tree 



In bulk, doth make man better be, 

 In small proportions we just beauties 



see, 



And in short measures, life may per- 

 fect be. Jonson. 



