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A MOSAIC FOR HOUSE-WIVES.

A PLACE for everything, and everything in its place.

A time for everything, and everything in time.

SPEECH is silver; silence is golden.

A

WOMAN habitually gentle, sympathizing, forbearing, and cheerful, carries a soothing and sustaining influence ever with her.

AN anxious mind is never a holy mind.

Do the duty that lies nearest.

C. E. Beecher.

Goethe.

WHAT

HAT we need most is not so much to realize the Ideal as to idealize the Real.

18*

F. H. Hedge.

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FOR every evil under the sun

There's a remedy, or there's none;
If there is one, try and find it;
If there isn't, never mind it.,

"IF my foresight were as good as my hindsight, I should not

make so many mistakes."

Dutchman.

THOUGH I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

ONE keep-clean is worth two make-cleans.

John Wesley.

HERE there is room in the heart, there is always room

WHERE

in the house.

WHAT

I don't see

Don't trouble me;

And what I see

Might trouble me,

Did I not know

That it must be so.

THE morning hour has gold in its mouth.

Goethe.

A MOSAIC FOR HOUSE-WIVES.

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OSE an hour in the morning, you may search for it all day, and never find it.

ONE small candle may light a thousand.

Old Saying,

DIRT is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place!

TEMPER is nine-tenths of Christianity.

Lord Palmerston.

ORDER

was made for the family, and not the family for

order.

H. B. Stowe.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

R. W. Emerson.

GRANDMOTHER'S TRIPLET.

AFTER breakfast, work and tile; (toil)

After dinner, sit awhile;

After supper, walk a mile.

HE three family physicians-Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr.

THE

Merry-man.

Old Proverb.

A MOSAIC FOR US ALL.

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