Life thoughts, gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher. By one of his congregation.

158 LIFE THOUGHTS.
every faculty. When one comes against the door
of some faculties with an injury, we look over the
railing and say, —
"I'll forgive you for that, for you did not get
in.>
But by and by, when the faculty where we are
sensitive is entered, then we grind our teeth and
say,
"I could have forgiven him for any thing but
that! "
We must not arrogate to ourselves a spirit of forgiveness, until we have been touched to the quick
where we are sensitive, and borne it meekly; and
meekness is not mere white-facedness, a mere contemplative virtue; it is maintaining peace and patience in the midst of pelting provocations.
MOZART and Raphael! As long as the winds
make the air give forth sounds, and the sun paints
the earth with colors, so long shall the world not
let these names die.
SEE to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts,
and actions are pure and true; then will your life
be such. The mightiest maze of magnificent har