...and how you may in future amend your ways. " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." And this is never more proper, than when you are making a transition from one stage...

...still higher direction. For this, he says, " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven ! And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form what men experience call, If wisdom's friend, her best; if not, worst...

...• .-,.,] It is, therefore, the part of wisdom " to converse with the hours already past, and to ask them what report they bore to heaven," and how they might have brought more welcome intelligence. Each hour then should be watched as a minute grain, passing through...

...The sun is darkness, and the stars are dust. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news . Their answers form what men experience call ; If wisdom's friend, her best ; if not,...

...and specially of a probationary, existence. 'Tis greatly wise, to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. 1. Perform this duty deliberately. It is not the business of hurry or of negligence....

...Wisdom thus instructed becomes provident for the future. Wisdom thus "Talks with its past hours And asks them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." Unless then we have already attained to perfection, which Paul was far from claiming...

...serenity. O, my soul, what shall I render! ' 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news.'" A further selection from the sententious and judicious reflections, mingled with devout...

...serenity. O, my soul, what shall I render ! ' Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news.' " A further selection from the sententious and judicious reflections, mingled with devout...

...profitable, if not always pleasant, to receive a visit from the spectres of our past hours: " And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." We now return to the more immediate subject of this lesson. Again—perhaps you saj,...

...But every hour is an angel — a messenger. " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form what men experience call." There can be no experience, worth the name,...