--_The Talmud._ T 1874 For him who does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three. 1875 There is nothing like addressing men at the proper time. 1876 The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. --_O. W. Holmes._ 1877 Talent is something, but tact is everything. --_Scargill._ 1878 All talk at once, to none respect is shown. 1879 _Talking._--What a spendthrift is he of his tongue! --_Shakespeare._ 1880 They always talk who never think. --_Prior._ 1881 He who talks much is sometimes right. --_Spanish._ 1882 The talker sows, the listener reaps. --_Italian._ 1883 You can doubtless name a number of people who talk too much--including yourself! 1884 A man of sense talks little, and listens much. --_Chinese._ 1885 _A Quiet Rebuke._--When Washington's secretary excused himself for the lateness of his attendance, and laid the blame on his watch, his master quietly said--"Then you must get another watch, or I another secretary." 1886 The cost takes away the taste: I should really like the thing, but I dislike the expense. 1887 To teach is to learn twice over. 1888 Nothing dies sooner than a tear. 1889 Do not make woman weep, for God counts her tears. --_From The Talmud._ 1890 He has strangled His language in his tears. --_Shakespeare._ 1891 There are few things more beautiful than tears, whether they are shed for ourselves or others; they are the meek and silent effusions of sincere feeling. 1892 Tears sometimes have the weight of words. --_Ovid._ 1893 Tears are the diamonds of the eye. 1894 TEARS--SILENCE OF See the tide working upward to his eye, And stealing from him in large silent drops, Without his leave. --_Young._ 1895 Control your temper, for if it does not obey you, it will govern you. --_Horace._ 1896 Good temper is like a sunny day. --_French._ 1897 If you have a good temper, keep it; if you have a bad one, don't lose it. 1898 When you're in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you're in the wrong you can't afford to lose it. 1899 Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle. --_Spurgeon._ 1900 Toil is a foil against temptation. 1901