The following remarkable compilation 1 a

contribution to the San Francisco Times trom

the pen of Mw. H. A. Deming. The reader

will notice that each line is a quotation from

some of the standard authors of England and

America, This is the result of a year's labor.

ous search among the leading poets of the

past and present time,

Why all thus toil for triumphs of an hour?

w Young.

Lite's a short summer, man a flower,

- Dy.

By turns we oatoh tho vital breath and die—

Johnson

— Pope.

The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh.

- Prior.

To be, is better than not to be.

— Newell.

Though all man's lite may scam & tragedy;

- Spencer

But light cares speak when mighty griets are

dumb,

The bottom is but shallow whence they come,

w= Radeigh,

Your fate is but the common fate of all;

w Din sell.

- Longfellow

Unmingled joys here to no man belall,

-— Souikwell,

Nature t0 each allots his proper sphere;

— (Congreve,

Fortune makes folly her peculiar care;

- Churchill,

Custom does often reason overrule,

— Rochester.

And throw a cool sunshine on a fool,

—Armairong.

0

Live well; how long or short,

heaven; - Millon.

They who forgive most shall be most torgiven.

- Batley.

Bin may be clasped so close we cannot see

face, — Trench,

Vile intercourse where virtue has no place.

- Spmerville.

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its

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— Thomson.

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

— Baron.

He rsensual snares let faithless pleasure lay,

-— Smolicil

With eralt and skill to ruin and betray.

- Crabbe.

car aot too high to fall, but stoop to rise;

— Messenger.

We masters grow of all that we despise.

— Cowley.

Then I renounce that impions self-esteem;

— Beattie.

Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.

- Cowper,

Think vot ambition wise because "tis brave;

— Davenanl.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

-— Gray.

"Tis a glorious cheat !

- Willis.

Only destructive to the brave and great.

— Addison.

What's all the gandy glitter of a crown?

— Dryden.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.

- Quarries.

How long we live, not years bat actions tell;

- Watkins.

That man lives twice who lives the first lif

well. — Herrick.

Make then, while yet we may, your God your

friend,