American Public Education
"Keen are the pangs
Advancement often brings. To be secure,
Be humble. To be happy, be content." JAMES HURDIS.
"For not that which men covet most is best；
Nor that thing worst which men do most refuse.
But fittest is that each contented rest
With that they hold." SPENSER.
"Men have different spheres. It is for some to evolve great moral truths, as the Heavens evolve stars, to guide the sailor on the sea and the traveller on the desert； and it is for some, like the sailor and the traveller, simply to be guided."--BEECHER.
A venerable gentleman who once occupied a prominent position in a leading New England college, was remarking recently upon the difficulty which he experienced in obtaining servants who would attend to their duties. He had just dismissed a girl of sixteen, who was so much "above her business" as to be intolerable. The girl‘s father, who was an Englishman, called upon him for an explanation. The employer told his

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