Maxims to Live By

More of Grandma's Gems
126 - 138

126.  One by one in the finite
meadows of heaven
Blossomed the lovely stars
The for-get-me-nots of the angels

127. May all that is treasured
strew flowers in you way
and gladness be measured
by the length of the day.

128. Long as there is a sun to rise
roses still will have their glory
while there are for-get-me-nots
they will have their place in story
in my heart a fairer flower
holds for aye a greater power.

129. My heart goes forth to greet thee
on this eventful day.
May pleasures ever greet thee
apon the worlds highway.

130. Life is real, life is earnest.
And the grave is not the goal
Dust thou art, to dust returnest
Was not spoken of the soul
"Not enjoyment and not sorrow
is our destined and or way.
But to act, that each tomorrow
find us farther than today.
-Longfellow

131. In your golden chain of
friendship
Regard me as a friend.

132. M.H. Friendship is ut a silken cord
That binds two hearts together
If that cord does not break
Let us be friends forever.

133. I count this thing
to be grandly true
That a noble deed is
a step toward God
Lifting the soul from
a common clod.
To a purer air and a
broader view.
-J.G. Hollan.

134. Behavior is a mirror
in which everyone
shows himself.
-Goethe

135. If a man empties his
purse into his head
No one can take it away from him an
investment of knowledge
pays the best interest
-Benjamin Franklin

136. Good breeding is the
result of much good
Since some good nature
And a little good self-
denial for the sake of others
-Lord Chesterfield

137. True worth is in being
not seeming in doing
Each day that goes by.
Some little good not
in the dreaming
Of great things to be by and by
For whatever men say in
their blindness
And spite of the fancies
or youth.
There's nothing so
royal as truth.
-Alice Cary

138. If we do not plant knowledge when we
are young
It will give us no shade
when we are old.
-Chesterfield