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--_M. W. Beck._
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
--_Longfellow._
Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.
--_George Herbert._
If wisdom's ways you'd wisely seek, Five things observe with care,-- _Of_ whom you speak, _to_ whom you speak, And _how_, and _when_, and _where._
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
--_Gay._
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
--_Bulwer Lytton._
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view And clothes the mountain with its azure hue.
--_Campbell._
Give fools their gold and knaves their power, Let fortune's bubble rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree is more than all.
--_Whittier._
Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
--_Longfellow._
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
--_Young._
Errors, like straws upon the surface flow; He who would seek for pearls must dive below.
--_Dryden._
The cross, if rightly borne, shall be No burden, but support to thee.
--_Whittier._
Oh, deem it not an idle thing A pleasant word to speak; The face you wear, the thoughts you bring, A heart may heal or break.
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,-- And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each; Let no future dreams elate thee,-- Learn thou first what these can teach.
FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES.
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._
