Language Work in Elementary Schools

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX B MEMOKY GEMS God helps them that help themselves.--Franklin Be sure you are right, then go ahead. --David Crockett Education is the chief defense of nations.--Garfield Be not simply good-- be good for something.--Thoreau Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. Ben Jonson Keep company with the good and you will be one of them. Cervantes From the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.--Carl.yle Good luck will help a man over the ditch, if he jumps hard. Spurgeon I would rather be right than be president of the United States.--Henry Clay It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. Horace Mann One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. Goethe Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.--Plato To read without reflection is like eating without digesting. Burke Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.--Bible Prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them. Pacuvius The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. Carlyle Do the duty that lies nearest thee which thou knowest to be a duty. Thy second duty will already have become clearer. Carlyle A grateful mind is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all other virtues.--Cicero God has two dwellings: one in heaven and the other in a meek and thankful heart.--Izaak Walton The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.--Samuel Johnson I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill He lives long who lives well; time misspent is not lived but lost.--Fuller To look up and not down, to look forward and not back, to look out and not in, and to lend a hand.--E. E. Hale Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it...