SEPTEMBER QUOTATIONS 



1. O sweet September! thy first breezes 



bring 



The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's 

 laughter, 



The cool, fresh air, whence health and 

 vigor spring, 



And promise of exceeding joy here- 

 after. Arnold. 



2. That which is unjust can really profit 

 no one ; that which is just can really 

 harm no one. Henry George. 



3. A cheerful temper joined with inno- 

 cence will make beauty attractive, 

 knowledge delightful, and wit good- 

 natured. Addison. 



4. You may wear your virtues as a crown, 

 As you walk through life serenely, 

 And grace your simple rustic gown 

 With a beauty more than queenly. 



Phoebe Gary. 



5. From dewy lanes at morning 

 The grapes' sweet odors rise. 

 At noon the roads all flutter , 

 With golden butterflies. Jackson. 



6. By all these lovely tokens 

 September days are here, 



With summer's best of weather 

 And autumn's best of cheer.. 



Jackson. 



7. 'Tis education forms the common mind ; 

 Just as the twig is bent the tree's in- 

 clined. Pope. 



8. A merry heart goes all the day, 

 Your sad tires in a mile-a. 



Shakespeare. 



9. To act the part of a true friend re- 

 quires more conscientious feeling than 

 to fill with credit and complacency any 

 other? station or capacity in social life. 



Ellis. 



10. Kind hearts are more than coronets, 

 And simple faith than Norman blood. 



Tennyson. 



11. O sweet September rain ! 



I hear it fall upon the garden beds, 

 Freshening the blossoms which begin 

 to wane. Collins. 



12. Finally, education alone can conduct 

 us to that enjoyment which is, at once, 

 best in quality and infinite in quantity. 



Mann. 



13. Be not the first by whom the new are 



tried ; 



Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 

 Pope. 



14. A merry heart doeth good like a medi- 



cine. Proverbs. 



15. Life is to be fortified by many friend- 



ships. Sydney Smith. 



16. Yes ! in the poor man's garden grow, 

 Far more than herbs or flowers, 



Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of 



mind, 

 And joy for weary hours. Howitt. 



17. The morrow was a bright September 



morn ; 



The earth was beautiful as if new- 

 born ; 



There was that nameless splendor 



everywhere, 



That wild exhilaration in the air, 

 Which makes the passers in the city 



street 



Congratulate each other as they meet. 

 Longfelloiv. 



18. Example is always more efficacious 

 than precept. Samuel Johnson. 



19. The true purpose of education is to de- 

 velop, to their fullest extent, the ca- 

 pacities of every kind with which the 

 God who made us has endowed us. 



Jameson. 



20. The noblest mind the best contentment 

 has. Spenser. 



21. The only way to have a friend is to be 

 one. Emerson. 



22. Through the long night the surges 



roared 



In hoarse, wild rage, against the rocks 

 Whose flinty horns their white sides 



gored 

 Then came the Equinox. Blake. 



23. The pollen-dusted bees 

 Search for the honey-lees 



That linger in the last flowers of Sep- 

 tember ; 



While plaintive mourning doves 

 Coo sadly to their loves 

 Of the dead summer they so well re- 

 member. Arnold. 



24. True friendship is a plant of slow 

 growth, and must undergo and with- 

 stand the shocks of adversity before it 

 is entitled to the appellation. 



Washington. 



25. Ay, call it holy ground, 



The soil where first they trod : 



They have left unstained what there 



they found- 

 Freedom to worship God. Hemans. 



26. Wondrous is the strength of cheerful- 

 ness, altogether past calculation its 

 power of endurance. Carlyle. 



27. To the contented, even poverty is joy. 

 To the discontented, even wealth is a 



vexation. From the Chinese. 



28. Now hath the summer reached her 



golden close, 



And lost, amid her cornfields, bright of 

 soul, 



Scarcely perceives from her divine re- 

 pose 



How near, how swift, the inevitable 

 goal. Lampman. 



29. Education commences at the mother's 

 knee, and every word spoken within 

 the hearsay of little children tends to- 

 wards the formation of character. 



Ballon. 



30. And soon, too soon, around the cum- 



bered eves 

 Shy frosts shall take the creepers by 



surprise, 

 And through the wind-touched redden- 



.ing woods shall rise 

 October with the rain of ruined leaves. 

 Lampman. 



