Santi d'Urbino Raphael born 1483.
Sir Thomas Smith born 1514.
Margaret (Peg) Woffington died 1760.
They may not need me,
Yet they might;
I'll let my heart be
Just in sight--
A smile so small
As mine might be
Precisely their
Necessity.
--Unknown.
You hear that boy laughing?--you think he's all fun;
But the angels laugh too at the good he has done;
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing,
be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to
another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other.
--Ephesians 4. 31.
Lord God, I pray that I may be fair, and not pass judgment on those
whom I like or those whom I dislike, and so bring unhappy regrets. May
I remember that, though hasty judgment often may be temporary, the
gain or loss of a friend may be permanent. Amen.