Recipe for a happy life . (pa^iimea When griping griefs the heart doth wound,And doleful dumps the mind oppress, * * * * * Then music, with her silver speedy help doth lend redress. — Shakespeare. Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we a substantial world, both pure and good;Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow. — Wordsworth. Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensueBut moody and dull melancholy. — Shakespeare. A day for toil, an hour for sport. — Emerson. Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen.


Recipe for a happy life . (pa^iimea When griping griefs the heart doth wound,And doleful dumps the mind oppress, * * * * * Then music, with her silver speedy help doth lend redress. — Shakespeare. Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we a substantial world, both pure and good;Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow. — Wordsworth. Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensueBut moody and dull melancholy. — Shakespeare. A day for toil, an hour for sport. — Emerson. Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen. Of ^Miimte of afF eotie, ioo,tan ^ofb (pae^tmee No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor anypleasure so lasting. ^^ _ ^^^^ j^ ^ Montague. Reading serves for delight, for ornament, for ability. — Bacon. The love of reading enables a man to exchangethe w^earisome hours of life, v^^hich come to everyone, for hours of delight. , , ° — Montesquieu. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears: soft stillness, and the the touches of sweet harmony. — Shakespeare. We have had pastime here, and pleasing game. Shakespeare. Of ^fcaeattf (Ulcmotg onb of %oipti^xu goob brac^ms ^age 26 (Recij^e for a Memories. FT I remember those whom I have knownIn other days, to whom my heart was ledAs by a magnet, and who are not absent, and their memories overgrownWith other thoughts and troubles of my graves with grasses are, and at their headThe stone with moss and lichens so oerspread,Nothing is legible bu


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