--_Davenant_
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
--_Gray_
What is ambition? ’Tis a glorious cheat.
--_Willis_
Only destructive to the brave and great.
--_Addison_
What’s all the gaudy glitter of a crown?
--_Dryden_
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.
--_Quarles_
How long we live, not years but actions tell.
--_Watkins_
That man lives twice, who lives the first life well.
--_Herrick_
Make, then, while yet ye may, your God your friend.
--_Mason_
Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend.
--_Hill_
The trust that’s given guard, and to yourself be just.
--_Dana_
For live howe’er we may, yet die we must.
--_Shakespeare_
--_Good Housekeeping._
(1786)
* * * * *
As I passed down through India I saw two little rice-fields side
by side. One was green and growing; the other was dead and dry.
I looked for the cause. The great lake was full of water. There
was no lack there. Into the one the living water was flowing,
for the channel was open. The other was choked. Brother, is your
life green and growing, fruitful and joyful, or barren and dry
because the channel is choked?--G. S. EDDY, “Student
Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions,” 1910.
(1787)