Nay, never falter; no great deed is doneBy falterers who ask for certainty.No good is certain but the steadfast mind,The undivided will to seek the good.
Nay, never falter; no great deed is doneBy falterers who ask for certainty.No good is certain but the steadfast mind,The undivided will to seek the good.
Nay, never falter; no great deed is doneBy falterers who ask for certainty.No good is certain but the steadfast mind,The undivided will to seek the good.
Nay, never falter; no great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
No good is certain but the steadfast mind,
The undivided will to seek the good.
—George Eliot.
There is a class of people who are comparatively valueless to the world because of a certain morbidness which they are pleased to call sensitiveness. In reality it is nothing of the sort. It is self-love—a refined variety of it, to be sure, but none the less is it the result of a selfishly subjective state, in which they look in and not out, and down and not up, and fail to lend a hand—not from any real unwillingness, but because they are looking in, and do not see the opportunity.
—Lilian Whiting.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
—Dickens.
We always weaken when we exaggerate.
—La Harpe.
It is not poverty that helps a man; it is the effort by which he throws off the yoke of poverty that enlarges the powers.
—David Starr Jordan.
“Of all bad habits, despondency is among the least respectable, and there is no one quite so tiresome as the sad-visaged Christian who is oppressed by the wickedness and hopelessness of the world.”
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means waste of time.
—Sir J. Lubbock.
There is no preservative and antiseptic, nothing that keeps one’s heart young like sympathy, like giving one’s self with enthusiasm to some worthy thing or cause.
—John Burroughs.
A truly concentrated life promptly rejects every thought of past or future that would disturb its confidence in the present hour.
—C. B. Newcomb.
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom more fruitful than his toil.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie.
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
—Wm. R. Alger.
Be sure to live on the sunny side, and even then do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
—Chas. H. Eliot.
Whenever Conscience calls a halt, it is no place for Reason to debate the question. The way ahead is no thoroughfare.
—Charles Egbert Craddock.
Give what you have. To some one it may be better than you dare to think.
—Longfellow.
“If bitterness has crept into the heart in the friction of the busy day’s unguarded moments, be sure it steals away with the setting sun. Twilight is God’s interval for peace-making.”
It is surely better to pardon too much than to condemn too much.
—Geo. Eliot.
“The initial need to enjoyment is not many possessions, but much appreciation.”
Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one’s spirit always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability,—that is an idea as noble as it is difficult.
—Edward Howard Griggs.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
—Spurgeon.
“No matter how narrow your limitsGo forth and make them broad:You are every one the daughter or son,Crown prince or princess of God.”
“No matter how narrow your limitsGo forth and make them broad:You are every one the daughter or son,Crown prince or princess of God.”
“No matter how narrow your limitsGo forth and make them broad:You are every one the daughter or son,Crown prince or princess of God.”
“No matter how narrow your limits
Go forth and make them broad:
You are every one the daughter or son,
Crown prince or princess of God.”
The best help is not to bear the troubles of others for them, but to inspire them with courage and energy to bear their burdens for themselves and meet the difficulties of life bravely.
—Lubbock.
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, “Why should I tell it?”
—Lavater.
Henry Ward BeecherGreat powers and natural gifts do not bring privileges totheir possessors so much as they bring duties.
Henry Ward BeecherGreat powers and natural gifts do not bring privileges totheir possessors so much as they bring duties.
Great powers and natural gifts do not bring privileges totheir possessors so much as they bring duties.
Let us then labor for an inward stillness,An inward stillness and an inward healing;That perfect silence where the lips and heartAre still, and we no longer entertainOur own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions,But God alone speaks in us, and we waitIn singleness of heart that we may knowHis will, and in the silence of our own spirits,That we may do His will, and that only.
Let us then labor for an inward stillness,An inward stillness and an inward healing;That perfect silence where the lips and heartAre still, and we no longer entertainOur own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions,But God alone speaks in us, and we waitIn singleness of heart that we may knowHis will, and in the silence of our own spirits,That we may do His will, and that only.
Let us then labor for an inward stillness,An inward stillness and an inward healing;That perfect silence where the lips and heartAre still, and we no longer entertainOur own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions,But God alone speaks in us, and we waitIn singleness of heart that we may knowHis will, and in the silence of our own spirits,That we may do His will, and that only.
Let us then labor for an inward stillness,
An inward stillness and an inward healing;
That perfect silence where the lips and heart
Are still, and we no longer entertain
Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions,
But God alone speaks in us, and we wait
In singleness of heart that we may know
His will, and in the silence of our own spirits,
That we may do His will, and that only.
—Longfellow.
Many persons might have attained to wisdom had they not assumed that they already possessed it.
—Seneca.
Stagnation is death, whether it be physical or spiritual. A pool cannot be pure and sweet unless there is an outlet as well as an inlet. Unless you use for the service of others what God has already given you, you will find it a long weary road to Spiritual Understanding.
—H. Emilie Cady.
Make friends with your trials, as though you were always to live together, and you will find that when you cease to take thought for your own deliverance, God will take thought for you.
—Francis de Sales.
“God will never leave you without light enough to take one step. Don’t stop walking till the light gives out.”
We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life, or grand moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
—Emerson.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
—Dr. Johnson.
“Happiness does not depend on money or leisure, or society, or even on health; it depends on our relation to those we love.”
Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands.
—Japanese Proverb.
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe—the left hand for want of practice is insignificant—and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right—from constant use.
—Pliny.
Almost every moment of the day the eye is receiving impressions from outward objects, and instantly communicating these impressions to the soul. Thus the soul receives every day thousands of impressions, good or bad, according to the character of the objects presented.
—Cardinal Gibbons.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
—Confucius.
Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.
—Chas. H. Eliot.
It is as amazing as it is sad, that we go about so largely burdening ourselves with strivings that are of no consequence, and miss the gladness and exhilaration of living. No life is successful until it is radiant. The King of Glory is always ready to come in. Why do we bar the way? We cannot all live in palaces; but we can all live in the Kingdom of Heaven, and the material luxuries of the one pale before the glow and thrill and exaltation of the other.
—The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting.
“As I walked by myselfI talked with myself,And myself said this unto me:Make friends with thyself,Be true to thyself,And thyself thy good angel shall be.”
“As I walked by myselfI talked with myself,And myself said this unto me:Make friends with thyself,Be true to thyself,And thyself thy good angel shall be.”
“As I walked by myselfI talked with myself,And myself said this unto me:Make friends with thyself,Be true to thyself,And thyself thy good angel shall be.”
“As I walked by myself
I talked with myself,
And myself said this unto me:
Make friends with thyself,
Be true to thyself,
And thyself thy good angel shall be.”
The prosperity of a nation depends upon the health and morals of its citizens, and the health and morals of people depend mainly upon the food they eat and the houses they live in. The time has come when we must have a science of domestic economy, and it must be worked out in the homes of our educated women. A knowledge of the elements of chemistry and physics must be applied to the daily living.
—Ellen Richards.
’Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
—Browning.
Contact with nobler natures arouses the feelings of unused power and quickens the consciousness of responsibility.
—Canon Westcott.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
—Benjamin Franklin.
“Diving and finding no pearl in the sea,Blame not the ocean, the fault is in thee.”
“Diving and finding no pearl in the sea,Blame not the ocean, the fault is in thee.”
“Diving and finding no pearl in the sea,Blame not the ocean, the fault is in thee.”
“Diving and finding no pearl in the sea,
Blame not the ocean, the fault is in thee.”
A partnership with God is motherhood,What strength, what purity, what self-control,What love, what wisdom should belong to herWho helps God fashion an immortal soul!
A partnership with God is motherhood,What strength, what purity, what self-control,What love, what wisdom should belong to herWho helps God fashion an immortal soul!
A partnership with God is motherhood,What strength, what purity, what self-control,What love, what wisdom should belong to herWho helps God fashion an immortal soul!
A partnership with God is motherhood,
What strength, what purity, what self-control,
What love, what wisdom should belong to her
Who helps God fashion an immortal soul!
—Mary Wood Allen.
No one but yourself can make your life beautiful, no one can be pure, honorable and loving for you.
—J. R. Miller.
Ah, the key of our life, that passes all wards, opens all locks,Is not I will, but I must, I must, I must,—and I do it.
Ah, the key of our life, that passes all wards, opens all locks,Is not I will, but I must, I must, I must,—and I do it.
Ah, the key of our life, that passes all wards, opens all locks,Is not I will, but I must, I must, I must,—and I do it.
Ah, the key of our life, that passes all wards, opens all locks,
Is not I will, but I must, I must, I must,—and I do it.
—A. H. Clough.
I beg you take courage: the brave soul can mend even disaster.
—Catherine of Russia.
Opinions are often the very death of love. Love aright and you will come to think aright; and those who think aright, must think the same. In the meantime, it matters nothing. The thing that does matter is that whereto we have attained.
—Geo. Macdonald.
Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man’s destiny were not equally so?
—Thoreau.
Some men move through life as a band of music moves down the street, flinging out pleasure on every side through the air, to every one far and near that can listen.
—Henry Ward Beecher.
Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and an upright man,Commands all light, all influence, all fate;Nothing to him falls early or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and an upright man,Commands all light, all influence, all fate;Nothing to him falls early or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and an upright man,Commands all light, all influence, all fate;Nothing to him falls early or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and an upright man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
—Beaumont and Fletcher.
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
—Holmes.
What your heart thinks great is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.
—Emerson.
Courage, Sir,That makes a man or woman look their goodliest.
Courage, Sir,That makes a man or woman look their goodliest.
Courage, Sir,That makes a man or woman look their goodliest.
Courage, Sir,
That makes a man or woman look their goodliest.
—Tennyson.
For a woman to be wise and at the same time womanly, is to wield a tremendous influence which may be felt for good in the lives of generations to come.
—David Starr Jordan.
We never know for what God is preparing us in his schools, for what work on earth, for what work in the hereafter. Our business is to do our work well in the present place, whatever that may be.
—Lyman Abbott.
There is no unbelief:Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod,And waits to see it push away the clod,Trusts in God.
There is no unbelief:Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod,And waits to see it push away the clod,Trusts in God.
There is no unbelief:Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod,And waits to see it push away the clod,Trusts in God.
There is no unbelief:
Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod,
And waits to see it push away the clod,
Trusts in God.
—Bulwer-Lytton.
The world is such stuff as ideas are made of. Thought possesses all things. But the world is not unreal. It extends infinitely beyond our private consciousness, because it is the world of a universal mind.
—Josiah Royce.
In Life’s small things be resolute and greatTo keep thy muscles trained; know’st thou when fateThy measure takes? or when she’ll say to thee,“I find thee worthy, do this thing for me!”
In Life’s small things be resolute and greatTo keep thy muscles trained; know’st thou when fateThy measure takes? or when she’ll say to thee,“I find thee worthy, do this thing for me!”
In Life’s small things be resolute and greatTo keep thy muscles trained; know’st thou when fateThy measure takes? or when she’ll say to thee,“I find thee worthy, do this thing for me!”
In Life’s small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscles trained; know’st thou when fate
Thy measure takes? or when she’ll say to thee,
“I find thee worthy, do this thing for me!”
—Emerson.
To hold one’s self in readiness for opportunity, to keep the serene, confident, hopeful, and joyful energy of mind, is to magnetize it, and draw privileges and power toward one. The concern is not whether opportunity will present itself, but as to whether we will be ready for the opportunity. It comes not to doubt and denial and disbelief. It comes to sunny expectation, eager purpose, and to noble and generous aspiration.
—Lilian Whiting.
Let not soft slumber close your eyes,Before you’ve recollected thriceThe train of action through the day.Where have my feet chose out their way?What have I learnt, where’er I’ve been,From all I’ve heard, from all I’ve seen?What know I more that’s worth the knowing?What have I done that’s worth the doing?
Let not soft slumber close your eyes,Before you’ve recollected thriceThe train of action through the day.Where have my feet chose out their way?What have I learnt, where’er I’ve been,From all I’ve heard, from all I’ve seen?What know I more that’s worth the knowing?What have I done that’s worth the doing?
Let not soft slumber close your eyes,Before you’ve recollected thriceThe train of action through the day.Where have my feet chose out their way?What have I learnt, where’er I’ve been,From all I’ve heard, from all I’ve seen?What know I more that’s worth the knowing?What have I done that’s worth the doing?
Let not soft slumber close your eyes,
Before you’ve recollected thrice
The train of action through the day.
Where have my feet chose out their way?
What have I learnt, where’er I’ve been,
From all I’ve heard, from all I’ve seen?
What know I more that’s worth the knowing?
What have I done that’s worth the doing?
—Isaac Watts.
If we neglect to exercise any talent, power, or quality, it soon falls away from us.
—Henry Wood.
Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.
—Anna Robertson Brown.
With aching hands and bleeding feetWe dig and heap, lay stone on stone;We bear the burden and the heat of the long dayAnd wish ’twere done.Not till the hour of light returnAll we have built do we discern.
With aching hands and bleeding feetWe dig and heap, lay stone on stone;We bear the burden and the heat of the long dayAnd wish ’twere done.Not till the hour of light returnAll we have built do we discern.
With aching hands and bleeding feetWe dig and heap, lay stone on stone;We bear the burden and the heat of the long dayAnd wish ’twere done.Not till the hour of light returnAll we have built do we discern.
With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat of the long day
And wish ’twere done.
Not till the hour of light return
All we have built do we discern.
—Matthew Arnold.
What a man is inwardly that to him will the world be outwardly: his mood affects the very “quality of the day.”
—Bradford Torrey.
This is my youth—its hopes and dreamsHow strange and shadowy it all seems,After these many years!Turning the pages idly, so,I look with smiles upon the woe,Upon the joy, with tears!
This is my youth—its hopes and dreamsHow strange and shadowy it all seems,After these many years!Turning the pages idly, so,I look with smiles upon the woe,Upon the joy, with tears!
This is my youth—its hopes and dreamsHow strange and shadowy it all seems,After these many years!Turning the pages idly, so,I look with smiles upon the woe,Upon the joy, with tears!
This is my youth—its hopes and dreams
How strange and shadowy it all seems,
After these many years!
Turning the pages idly, so,
I look with smiles upon the woe,
Upon the joy, with tears!
—Aldrich.
It is in loving, not in being loved,The heart is blessed;It is in giving, not in seeking gifts,We find our quest.Whatever be thy longing or thy need,That do thou give.So shalt thy soul be fed, and thou, indeed,Shalt truly live.
It is in loving, not in being loved,The heart is blessed;It is in giving, not in seeking gifts,We find our quest.Whatever be thy longing or thy need,That do thou give.So shalt thy soul be fed, and thou, indeed,Shalt truly live.
It is in loving, not in being loved,The heart is blessed;It is in giving, not in seeking gifts,We find our quest.Whatever be thy longing or thy need,That do thou give.So shalt thy soul be fed, and thou, indeed,Shalt truly live.
It is in loving, not in being loved,
The heart is blessed;
It is in giving, not in seeking gifts,
We find our quest.
Whatever be thy longing or thy need,
That do thou give.
So shalt thy soul be fed, and thou, indeed,
Shalt truly live.
—M. E. Russell.
The world is a looking glass,Wherein ourselves are shown,—Kindness for kindness, cheer for cheer,Coldness for gloom, repulse for fear,—To every soul its own.We cannot change the world a whit,Only ourselves, who look in it.
The world is a looking glass,Wherein ourselves are shown,—Kindness for kindness, cheer for cheer,Coldness for gloom, repulse for fear,—To every soul its own.We cannot change the world a whit,Only ourselves, who look in it.
The world is a looking glass,Wherein ourselves are shown,—Kindness for kindness, cheer for cheer,Coldness for gloom, repulse for fear,—To every soul its own.We cannot change the world a whit,Only ourselves, who look in it.
The world is a looking glass,
Wherein ourselves are shown,—
Kindness for kindness, cheer for cheer,
Coldness for gloom, repulse for fear,—
To every soul its own.
We cannot change the world a whit,
Only ourselves, who look in it.
—Susan Coolidge.
I would say to all: use your gentlest voice at home. Watch it day by day, as a pearl of great price; for it will be worth to you in days to come more than the best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is joy, like a lark’s song, to a hearth at home. It is a light that sings as well as shines. Train it to sweet tones now, and it will keep in tune through life.
—Elihu Burritt.
In a world in which so many people wear the same clothes, live in the same house, eat the same dinner, and say the same things, blessed are the individuals who are not lost in the mob, who have their own thoughts, and live their own lives.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie.
There are people who go about the world looking for slights and they are necessarily miserable, for they find them at every turn.
—Drummond.
He who has a thousand rooms sleeps in but one.
—Japanese Proverb.
Be happy, peaceful and satisfied just as you stand, having sufficient steadiness and independence to hold your own against the eddies and rapids about you. Apply practically that which you perceive spiritually.
Accept your position as it is, and make the very best of it till it passes. Work with it, knowing that Infinite Wisdom is guiding you: and so cease all anxious thought, and rest.
—God’s Light as It Came to Me.
Aspire, break bounds! I say,Endeavor to be good, and better still,And best!
Aspire, break bounds! I say,Endeavor to be good, and better still,And best!
Aspire, break bounds! I say,Endeavor to be good, and better still,And best!
Aspire, break bounds! I say,
Endeavor to be good, and better still,
And best!
—Robert Browning.
CHRISTMAS DAY.
Glory be to Thee in the highest heavens, O Thou God of our salvation. Thou hast proclaimed peace on earth and infinite good will to men. Unto us has been born a Guide and Deliverer. We hail the morning which commemorates His birth. We thank Thee that we may unite in the joyful commemoration which makes us one with millions of Thy children in all parts of the world.
—Altar at Home.
Lift up yourselves to the great meaning of the day, and dare to think of your humanity as something so divinely precious that it is worthy of being an offering to God. Count it a privilege to make that offering as complete as possible, keeping nothing back, and then go out to the pleasures and duties of your life, having been born anew into His divinity, as He was born into our humanity on Christmas Day.
—Phillips Brooks.
Then wisely weighOur sorrow with our comfort.
Then wisely weighOur sorrow with our comfort.
Then wisely weighOur sorrow with our comfort.
Then wisely weigh
Our sorrow with our comfort.
—Shakespeare.
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate; when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain.
A man may get to his journey’s end by the light of a lantern, but he is less secure than the man who travels by daylight, and he loses the landscape.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie.
As our ideal becomes loftier, so does it become more real; and the nobler our soul, the less does it dread that it meet not a soul of its stature; for it must have drawn near unto truth, in whose neighborhood all things must take of its greatness.
—Maurice Materlinck.
The importance of a home it is impossible to exaggerate. What is liberty without it? What is education in schools without it? The greatness of no nation can be secure that is not based upon a pure home life.
—Arnold Toynbee.
Nay, if you come to that, best love of allIs God’s; then why not have God’s love befallMyself?
Nay, if you come to that, best love of allIs God’s; then why not have God’s love befallMyself?
Nay, if you come to that, best love of allIs God’s; then why not have God’s love befallMyself?
Nay, if you come to that, best love of all
Is God’s; then why not have God’s love befall
Myself?
—Robert Browning.
Let nothing disturb thee,Nothing affright thee;All things are passing;God never changeth;Patient enduranceAttaineth to all things;Who God possessethIn nothing is wanting;Alone God sufficeth.
Let nothing disturb thee,Nothing affright thee;All things are passing;God never changeth;Patient enduranceAttaineth to all things;Who God possessethIn nothing is wanting;Alone God sufficeth.
Let nothing disturb thee,Nothing affright thee;All things are passing;God never changeth;Patient enduranceAttaineth to all things;Who God possessethIn nothing is wanting;Alone God sufficeth.
Let nothing disturb thee,
Nothing affright thee;
All things are passing;
God never changeth;
Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.
—Santa Teresa’s Book Mark.
When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.
—Plato.
It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.
—Mathilde Blind.
“God never loved me in so sweet a way before,’Tis He alone who can such blessings send,And when His love would new expressions find,He brought thee to me, and He said,‘Behold a friend.’”
“God never loved me in so sweet a way before,’Tis He alone who can such blessings send,And when His love would new expressions find,He brought thee to me, and He said,‘Behold a friend.’”
“God never loved me in so sweet a way before,’Tis He alone who can such blessings send,And when His love would new expressions find,He brought thee to me, and He said,‘Behold a friend.’”
“God never loved me in so sweet a way before,
’Tis He alone who can such blessings send,
And when His love would new expressions find,
He brought thee to me, and He said,
‘Behold a friend.’”
“We can never see the sun rise by looking into the west.”
Give not thy tongue too great liberty, lest it take thee a prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in the scabbard—thine: if vented, thy sword is in another’s hand.
—Quarles.
Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out; but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
—Lowell.
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.
—Edward Everett Hale.
“It was only a glad ‘Good-morning’As she passed along the way,But it spread the morning’s gloryOver the live long day.”
“It was only a glad ‘Good-morning’As she passed along the way,But it spread the morning’s gloryOver the live long day.”
“It was only a glad ‘Good-morning’As she passed along the way,But it spread the morning’s gloryOver the live long day.”
“It was only a glad ‘Good-morning’
As she passed along the way,
But it spread the morning’s glory
Over the live long day.”
There is only one way to have good servants; that is, to be worthy of being well served. Only let it be remembered that “kindness” means, as with your child, so with your servant, not indulgence, but care.
—Ruskin.
James Freeman ClarkeTo educate the heart, one must be willing to go out ofhimself and to come into loving contact with others.
James Freeman ClarkeTo educate the heart, one must be willing to go out ofhimself and to come into loving contact with others.
To educate the heart, one must be willing to go out ofhimself and to come into loving contact with others.
“Far out of sight, while sorrows still enfold us,Lies the fair country where our hearts abide:And of its bliss is naught more wondrous told us,Than these few words, ‘I shall be satisfied.’”
“Far out of sight, while sorrows still enfold us,Lies the fair country where our hearts abide:And of its bliss is naught more wondrous told us,Than these few words, ‘I shall be satisfied.’”
“Far out of sight, while sorrows still enfold us,Lies the fair country where our hearts abide:And of its bliss is naught more wondrous told us,Than these few words, ‘I shall be satisfied.’”
“Far out of sight, while sorrows still enfold us,
Lies the fair country where our hearts abide:
And of its bliss is naught more wondrous told us,
Than these few words, ‘I shall be satisfied.’”
“Though there come a million,Wise Saadi dwells alone.”
“Though there come a million,Wise Saadi dwells alone.”
“Though there come a million,Wise Saadi dwells alone.”
“Though there come a million,
Wise Saadi dwells alone.”
But it is a question as to whether Saadi is wise when he prefers to dwell alone. Living on earth, is it not one’s duty to hear many voices that ring in its air? Is one’s life for mere acquirement, or to show results and flower into influence and deed?
—The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting.
The mountain top must be reached no matter how many times we fall in reaching it. The fall is not counted, it does not register; the picking up and going on counts in life.
—Flora Howard.
Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
—Chas. W. Wendte.
Be what thou seemest; live thy creed,Hold up to earth the touch divine;Be what thou prayest to be made;Let the great Master’s steps be thine.
Be what thou seemest; live thy creed,Hold up to earth the touch divine;Be what thou prayest to be made;Let the great Master’s steps be thine.
Be what thou seemest; live thy creed,Hold up to earth the touch divine;Be what thou prayest to be made;Let the great Master’s steps be thine.
Be what thou seemest; live thy creed,
Hold up to earth the touch divine;
Be what thou prayest to be made;
Let the great Master’s steps be thine.
—Horatio Bonar.
To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole, a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself, here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
—Robert Louis Stevenson.
Who is the honest man?He that doth still and strongly good pursue,To God, his neighbor and himself most true,Whom neither force nor fawning canUnpin, or wrench from giving all their due.
Who is the honest man?He that doth still and strongly good pursue,To God, his neighbor and himself most true,Whom neither force nor fawning canUnpin, or wrench from giving all their due.
Who is the honest man?He that doth still and strongly good pursue,To God, his neighbor and himself most true,Whom neither force nor fawning canUnpin, or wrench from giving all their due.
Who is the honest man?
He that doth still and strongly good pursue,
To God, his neighbor and himself most true,
Whom neither force nor fawning can
Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.
—George Herbert.
Take the Sunday with you through the week,And sweeten with it all the other days.
Take the Sunday with you through the week,And sweeten with it all the other days.
Take the Sunday with you through the week,And sweeten with it all the other days.
Take the Sunday with you through the week,
And sweeten with it all the other days.
—Longfellow.
God will not mock the hope he giveth,No love he prompts shall vainly plead.
God will not mock the hope he giveth,No love he prompts shall vainly plead.
God will not mock the hope he giveth,No love he prompts shall vainly plead.
God will not mock the hope he giveth,
No love he prompts shall vainly plead.
—Whittier.
God’s goodness hath been great to thee;Let never day or night unhallowed pass,But still remember what the Lord hath done.
God’s goodness hath been great to thee;Let never day or night unhallowed pass,But still remember what the Lord hath done.
God’s goodness hath been great to thee;Let never day or night unhallowed pass,But still remember what the Lord hath done.
God’s goodness hath been great to thee;
Let never day or night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
—Shakespeare.
Yet ere we part, one lesson I can leave youFor every day....Be good....Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:And so make life, death, and that vast foreverOne grand sweet song.
Yet ere we part, one lesson I can leave youFor every day....Be good....Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:And so make life, death, and that vast foreverOne grand sweet song.
Yet ere we part, one lesson I can leave youFor every day....Be good....Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:And so make life, death, and that vast foreverOne grand sweet song.
Yet ere we part, one lesson I can leave you
For every day....
Be good....
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand sweet song.
—Charles Kingsley.