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SELF-LOVE-SELF-KNOWLEDGE-SELF-MURDER. 293

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O! we are selfish beings even when we think Man, know thyself, all wisdom centers there. That we have weaned our souls from earthly

YOUNG.

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And that thy heavenward soul would gain The man that blushes is not quite a brute. An early freedom from its chain,

Was there not many a sign?

YOUNG.

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A voice is heard,

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; Which, though it fall like dew on flowers, so I were but little happy if I could say how

soft,

Yet speaks each word

much.

SHAKSPEARE.

Into the aching heart's unseen recess,
With power no earthly accents could possess.

The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails.

SHAKSPEARE.

But I lose

ANONYMOUS.

Thou leanest o'er thine infant's couch of pain;
It breaks thine heart to see

The wan, glazed eye, the wasted arm that fain Myself in Him, in light ineffable.

Would reach and cling to thee.

Yet is there quiet rest

Prepared upon the Saviour's breast

Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise.

For babes unconscious borne on Calvary to be Silence! coeval with eternity!

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THOMSON.

Thou wert ere nature's self began to be; 'Twas one vast nothing all, and all slept fast in thee.

POPE.

In silence mend what ills deform thy mind; But all thy good impart to all thy kind.

STERLING.

There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea,
Or in wide desert where no life is found;
But in green ruins, in the desolate walls

Of antique palaces, where man hath been,
Though the dun fox or wild hyena calls,

And owls that flit continually between Shriek to the echo, and the low wind moan, There the true silence is, self-conscious and alone.

HOOD.

ANONYMOUS.

The temple of our purest thoughts is-silence. MRS. HALE.

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