Life

The fotlowlng remarkable compilalion is a contributton to the San Fransisco Timet Irom the pen of Mrs. H. A. Deming. The reader will notice Ihat each line il a quotation from lome of the standard authort of England and America. Thi is the retult ar a year's laborious search among the lcading poets of the paat and present time : Why all this toil for triumph of an hour? - Young. Life's a short suramer, man a flower. - Dr. Johnson. By turnj we ctch the viul breath and die- -Pope. The eradle and the toinb, alas, so nigh. -Prior. To be, is better far than not to be, -Sewell. Thoueh all man's Ufe rnav seem a tragedy ; -Spencer. But llght cares speak when mighty grief are dumb. - Daniell. The bottom is but shallow w henee Ihey come. - Raleigh. Your fate is but the common fate of all ; - Longfellow. Unmineled joys hcre to no man befall. ' - Southell. Nature to each allols liis proper spherc; - Congreve. Fortune makes folly her peculiar care; - ChurchiU. Custom does often reason overrule, - Rochester. And throw a cruel sunshine on a fooi. - Armstrong. Live well; how long or short, permit to Heaven. -Milton. They who foreive most shall be most forgiven. -Bailey. Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its face, - Trench. Vilc intercourse where virtue has no place. - Somerville. Then keep each passion down, however dear ; -Thomson. Thou pendulum betwtxt a smile and tear. - Byron. lier sensual snares let faithless pleasure lay. - Smollett. With crafl and skill to ruin and betray. - Crabbe. 3oar not too tilgn to 1.111, uul iup to iof - Matsen ger. We masters grow of all that we despise. -Cowley. Then I renounce that impious self-esteem ; - Beatlie. Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. - Cowper. Think not ambltion wise because tis brave; - Davenant. The patht of glory lead but to the grave. - Gray. What is ambition '--'tis a erlorious cheatt - - WIIIU jaiy deslructive to 111e urave and greal. - Addison What's all the gaudy glitter of a croon' - Dryden. The way to blisa lies not on beds of down. - Quarles How long we live, not years but actlons teil ; - Watkins. That man Uves twice who lives the first life well. - Herrick. Make then, whlle yet we may, your God your friend - Mason. Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend. -HUI. The trust that's given guard, and to yourself be just -Dana. Por, live we how we can, yet die we must - Shakspeare.