George Canning born 1770.
Edward Everett born 1794.
Donald G. Mitchell (Ik Marvel) born 1822.
The safe path to excellence and success in every calling, is that of
appropriate preliminary education, diligent application to learn the
art of assiduity and practicing it.
--Edward Everett.
That nothing walks with aimless feet;
That not one life shall be destroyed,
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete.
Behold, we know not anything:
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last--far off--at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring.
--Alfred Tennyson.
And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto
the fullness of hope even to the end: that ye be not sluggish, but
imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the
promises.
--Hebrews 6. 11, 12.
Lord God, help me in all my circumstances, and be with me in my daily
work. Help me in my efforts, as I endeavor to attain, and may my will
be hid in thine. Amen.