Archbishop John Williams born 1582.
Joachim Murat born 1771.
Anna Seward died 1809.
How awful is the thought of the wonders underground,
Of the mystic changes wrought in the silent, dark profound!
How each thing upward tends by necessity decreed,
And the world's support depends on the shooting of a seed!
The summer's in her ark, and this sunny-pinioned day
Is commissioned to remark whether Winter holds her sway:
Go back, thou dove of peace, with myrtle on thy wing,
Say that floods and tempests cease, and the world is ripe for Spring.
--Horace Smith.
I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed
upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and
care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.
--Charles Dickens.
Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, that nothing be lost.
--John 6. 12.
Loving Father, cause me to learn from nature that to have perfection I
must be attentive at the beginning of growth. Help me to select with
care the soil wherein I plant; and to weed and cultivate my life that
it may grow to beauty and usefulness. Amen.