Andrea del Sarto born 1486.
Sir Joshua Reynolds born 1723.
Margaret Fuller Ossoli perished at sea 1850.
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's
performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too
distant? Pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn
all.
--Margaret Fuller.
The situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet
occupied by man. Yet, here is this miserable, despicable Actual,
wherein thou standest--here or nowhere is thy Ideal! Work it out
therefrom!
--Thomas Carlyle.
And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a
cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto
you he shall in no wise lose his reward.
--Matthew 10. 42.
Great God, may I begin this day bearing in mind that the things which
I think and do are my life. I pray that thou wilt keep me from making
great efforts for that which is valueless, and thus waste my life. May
I watch my pride and indolence that they may not cause me to lose the
best. Amen.