Part 25 (1/2)

What must of necessity be done, you can always find out how to do.

--_Ruskin._

He fails not who makes truth his cause, Nor bends to win the crowd's applause, He fails not--he who stakes his all Upon the right and dares to fall.

--_Richard Watson Gilder._

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act,--act in the living Present!

Heart within and G.o.d o'erhead!

--_Longfellow._

Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

--_Longfellow._

Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou aimest at, be thy country's, thy G.o.d's, and truth's.

--_Shakespeare._

For of all sad words of tongue or pen-- The saddest are these: ”It might have been!”

--_Whittier._

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again; The eternal years of G.o.d are hers; But error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his wors.h.i.+ppers.

--_Bryant._

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies;-- Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower,--but if I could understand What you are, root and all--and all in all, I should know what G.o.d and man is.

--_Tennyson._

Life is the beat possible thing we can make of it.

--_Curtis._