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DO YOUR BEST

If you're told to do a thing,
And mean to do it really,
Never let it be by halves;

Do it fully, freely.

ANONYMOUS

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IF I WERE YOU

If I were you, and went to school,
I'd never break the smallest rule;
And it should be my teacher's joy
To say she had no better boy.
And 'twould be true,

If I were you.

If I were you, I'd always tell
The truth, no matter what befell;
For two things only I despise—

A coward heart and telling lies;
And you would, too,

If I were you.

ANONYMOUS

MEMORY GEMS

Let us read some striking passage,

Cull a verse from every page;
Here a line and there a sentence,
'Gainst the lonely time of age.
At our work or by the wayside,
While the sunshine's making hay;
Thus we may, by help of study,

Learn a little every day.

ANONYMOUS

All that is wise has been thought already; we must try,

however, to think it again.

GOETHE

GOD

Merciful and gracious is the Lord; long-suffering and full of kindness. PSALM CIII. 8

God hath sown His name on the heavens in glittering stars, but upon earth He planteth His name by tender flowers. JEAN PAUL RICHTER

There's a wideness in God's mercy

Like the wideness of the sea;
There's a kindness in His justice
Which is more than liberty.
For the love of God is broader
Than the measures of man's mind,

And the heart of the Eternal

Is most wonderfully kind.

F. W. FABER

Nothing is superior to God; He must, therefore, govern the world. God is subject to no principle of nature; therefore He rules the whole of nature.

CICERO

This God, absolute Master of Earth and Heaven -the Eternal is His name, the world is His work; He hears the sigh of the lowly who is outraged, judges all men with equal laws, and from His high throne questions kings.

RACINE

If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object round; search in your breast, and you