If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try again.
Be kind and be gentle
To those who are old,
For dearer is kindness
And better than gold.
Sing, pretty birds, and build your nests,
The fields are green, the skies are clear;
Sing, pretty birds, and build your nests,
The world is glad to have you here.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
If a task is once begun,
Never leave it till it's done;
Be the labor great or small,
Do it well or not at all.
Whatever way the wind doth blow,
Some heart is glad to have it so,
So blow it east, or blow it west,
The wind that blows--that wind is best.
Dare to do right! dare to be true!
For you have a work no other can do;
Do it so bravely, so kindly, so well,
Angels will hasten the story to tell.
To do to others as I would
That they should do to me
Will make me honest, kind and good,
As children ought to be.
God make my life a little light,
Within the world to glow:
A little flame that burneth bright
Wherever I may go.
Better be an hour too early than a minute too late.
"Help one another," the snowflakes said,
As they cuddled down in their fleecy bed,
"One of us here would not be felt,
One of us here would quickly melt;
But I'll help you and you help me,
And then what a splendid drift there'll be."
By-and-by is a very bad boy,
Shun him at once and forever;
For they who travel with By-and-by
Soon come to the house of Never.
Politeness is to do and say
The kindest things in the kindest way.
And isn't it, my boy or girl,
The wisest, bravest plan,
Whatever comes, or doesn't come,
To do the best you can?