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Life Lessons

They also serve who only stand and wait."

MILTON.

66 Small service is true service while it lasts."

"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!"

HOLMES.

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"When Duty whispers low Thou must,' The youth replies, "I can.""

"Thou must be true thyself,

WORDSWORTH.

"I am content with what I have, Little be it, or much."

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EMERSON.

If thou the truth wouldst teach."

BONAR.

BUNYAN.

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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,
So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.'

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LOWELL.

"Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine."

HERBERT.

This above all-to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.'

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SHAKESPEARE.

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LIFE LESSONS

Life

LIVES of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labor and to wait.

HENRY WADSWORTH Longfellow.

From the "Psalm of Life."

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In a Child's Album

Life
Lessons Small service is true service while it lasts;

Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not

one;

The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

To-Day

So here hath been dawning
Another blue day:

Think, wilt thou let it

Slip useless away.

Out of Eternity

This new day was born;
Into Eternity,

At night, will return.

Behold it aforetime
No eye ever did;

So soon it for ever

From all eyes is hid.

Here hath been dawning
Another blue day:
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.

THOMAS CARLYLE.

The Noble Nature

It is not growing like a tree

In bulk doth make Man better be;

Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day

Is fairer far in May,

Although it fall and die that night,—
It was the plant and flower of Light:
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON.

Forbearance

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk?
At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse?
Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust?
And loved so well a high behavior,

In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained,
Nobility more nobly to repay?

O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Life Lessons