Part 23 (2/2)

--_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._

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