And when thou hast been thus supine, "ANVAR-I-SUHAILI." Fortune attends the lion-hearted man Certain it is that no bread eaten by man is so sweet as that earned by his own labour, bodily or mental. By labour the earth has been subdued, and man redeemed from barbarism, nor has a single step in civilization been made without it. Labour is not only a necessity and a duty but a blessing; only the idler feels it to be a curse. -SMILES. Assiduous pains the swelling coffers fill, • Translated by Eastwick. † Prof. Johnson's edition. From Bewick's Select Fables. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: bu the hand of the diligent maketh rich. -"BIBLE-PROVERBS 10." It is the diligent hand and head alone that maketh rich in self-culture, growth in wisdom and in business. -SMILES. Diligence is the mother of good luck. -PROVERB. Plough deep when sluggards sleep And you will have corn to sell and keep. No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing. -LONGFELLOW. He who would reap well, must sow well. -MAXIM. Easy come, easy go. -PROVERB. He that labours is tempted by one devil; but he that idle is tempted by a thousand. -ITALIAN PROVERB. There are some men who seem to be willing to do anything in the world to earn a living-but work. am persuaded that Milton did not write his "Paradise Lost, nor Homer his " Iliad," nor Newton Principia" without immense labour. Nature gave them a bias towards their respective pursuits, and that strong propensity, I suppose, is what we mean by genius. The rest they gave themselves. --COWPER. A wise man will never rust out; as long as he breathes the breath of life, he will be doing something for himself, his country or posterity. Washington, Franklin, Howard, Young, Newton all were at work to the last hour of their existence. Most of those excellencies which are regarded as natural endowments will be found, when looked at more closely, to be the product of repeated exercise. -LOCKE. By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. -MILTON. Learn to labour and to wait. -LONGFELLOW. In works of labour or of skill Let me be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. -WATTS. Labour is one of the best antidotes to crime. -SMILES. THE PROPHET MAHOMED'S ADVICE. One evening after a weary march through the desert, Mahomed was camping with his followers, and overheard one of them saying, 'I will loose my camel, and commit it to God;' on which the prophet took him up: 'Friend, tie thy camel, and commit it to God.' HERCULES AND THE CARTER. As a clownish fellow was driving his cart along a deep miry lane, the wheels stuck so fast in the clay that the horses could not draw them out. Upon this, he fell a bawling and praying to Hercules to come and help him. Hercules, looking down from a cloud, bid him not lie there, like an idle rascal as he was, but get up and whip his horses stoutly, and clap his shoulder to the wheel; adding, that this was the only way for him to obtain his assistance. -Esor's FABLES. 87. LEARNING. The resolver of many doubts, the exhibition of invisible objects, the eye of all, is Learning. He, of whom it is not, verily is blind. -"HITOPADESHA."* 'Tis art and learning that draw forth The hidden seeds of native worth. -WALLER. The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. In learning anything, as little as possible should be proposed to the mind at first. It is never too late to learn. -WATTS. So long as you are ignorant, be not ashamed to learn. Learn to unlearn what you have learned amiss. Get learning, that thou mayest honoured be; Man is worth nought, of learning when bereft. Knowledge will raise thy fortune and degree From the remotest line where shoes are left, To the mid-circle of the company. "ANVAR-I-SUHAILI."+ *Prof. Johnson's edition. † Translated by Eastwick. |