Part 24 (1/2)
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 Wilc.o.x._
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 n.o.blest 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 n.o.ble, 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.