Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no worthy action done.
--_Robart._
Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part; there all the honor lies.
--_Pope._
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making
the same one a second time.
--_Shaw._
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
--_Chesterfield._
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
--_Goethe._
The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
--_Longfellow._
All that's great and good is done
Just by patient trying.
--_Phoebe Cary._
No star is lost we ever once have seen:
We always may be what we might have been.
--_Adelaide Proctor._
Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
--_Longfellow._
Too much of joy is sorrowful,
So cares must needs abound,
The vine that bears too many flowers
Will trail upon the ground.
--_Alice Cary._
Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.
--_Ella Wheeler Wilcox._
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
--_Shakespeare._
Cloud and sun together make the year;
Without some storms no rainbow could appear.
--_Alice Cary._
The noblest service comes from nameless hands,
And the best servant does his work unseen.
--_Oliver Wendell Holmes._
He who seeks to pluck the stars
Will lose the jewels at his feet.
--_Phoebe Cary._
For he who is honest is noble,
Whatever his fortunes or birth.
--_Alice Cary._
There's never a leaf or a blade too mean
To be some happy creature's palace.
--_James Russell Lowell._
No endeavor is in vain.
Its reward is in the doing;
And the rapture of pursuing
Is the prize the vanquished gain.
--_Longfellow._
Press on! if once and twice thy feet
Slip back and stumble, harder try.
--_Benjamin._
Dare to do right; dare to be true;
The failings of others can never save you;
Stand by your conscience, your honor, your faith--
Stand like a hero, and battle till death!
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth
his spirit, than he that taketh a city.
--_Bible._
He prayeth best who loveth best
All things, both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
--_Coleridge._
Hours are golden links, God's token,
Reaching heaven, but one by one
Take them; lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
--_A. A. Proctor._
There is a lesson in each flower,
A story in each stream and bower;
On every herb on which we tread,
Are written words which, rightly read,
Will lead us from earth's fragrant sod
To hope and holiness and God.
Oh, many a shaft at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at random spoken,
May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken.
--_Scott._