Alfred Vigny born 1799.
General A. W. Greely born 1847.
Sir Gilbert Scott died 1878.
It takes great strength to bring your life up square
With your accepted thought and hold it there:
Resisting the inertia that drags it back
From new attempts, to the old habit's track.
It is so easy to drift back, to sink.
So hard to live abreast of what you think.
--Charlotte Perkins Stetson.
If a person had delivered up your body to anyone whom he met in his
way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in
delivering up your own mind to be disconcerted and confounded by
anyone who happens to give you ill language.
--Epictetus.
Wherefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly
vision.
--Acts 26. 19.
My Father, my soul sinks with shame when I think of the great moments
that I have given over to mean little things. Help me that I may
reckon more on the value of time, and live not to tolerate life, but
to have a great need for it, that day by day I may have a deeper
consciousness of its appropriate use. Amen.