This is the word: OURSELVES "Someone hath need of thee." Someone, or who or where, I do not know; Knowest thou not? Then seek; make no delay! And thou shalt find, in land of sun or snow, Who waits thee, little child or pilgrim grey; For, since God keeps thee in His world below, Someone hath need of thee, somewhere, to-day. DOWD So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. PSALM XC. 12 We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do; we are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there were to be no end of time. SENECA Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the bow of the evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven. Live with men as if God saw you. CHALMERS SENECA Any man may commit a mistake, but only a fool will continue in it. CICERO Four things a man must learn to do HENRY VAN DYKE Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make life, death and that vast forever One grand, sweet song. CHARLES KINGSLEY 'Tis no doubt pleasant Ourselves with our own selves to occupy, Discern; the gauge that from himself he takes GOETHE It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. ROBERTSON Hear sixty advisers, but be guided by your own convictions. THE TALMUD First correct thyself, then correct others. THE TALMUD As a tree is known by its fruit, so man by his works. THE TALMUD Help the weak, if you are strong; Lies a beauty If your eyes you do not shut, Just as surely And securely As a kernel in a nut. ANONYMOUS Let each man think himself an act of God; BAILEY He who sees his own faults is too much occupied to see the faults of others. THE TALMUD How may a man obtain greatness? By fidelity, truth, and lofty thoughts. THE TALMUD The most worthy crown is a good reputation. THE TALMUD I hold this thing to be grandly true, That a noble deed is a step towards God— To a purer air and a broader view. J. G. HOLLAND No time is thine but the present. The time gone is no more; the time to come may find thee gone when it comes. The righteous need no monuments. are their monuments. ANONYMOUS Their deeds THE TALMUD The wiser the man, the more careful he should be of his conduct. THE TALMUD For blessings always wait on virtuous deeds, Who is the honest man? CONGREVE He that doth still and strongly good pursue, To God, his neighbor, and himself most true; Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due. GEORGE HERBERT Be always sincere in your yea and nay. THE TALMUD Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know." THE TALMUD Better no ear at all than one that listeneth to evil. THE TALMUD Guard thy mouth from uttering an unseemly word. THE TALMUD He who does his best, however little, is always to be distinguished from the man who does nothing. ANONYMOUS He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king. ANONYMOUS He who shuts his eyes repining ANONYMOUS Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies closely at hand. THOMAS CARLYLE Defer not till to-morrow to be wise; To-morrow's sun for thee may never rise. CONGREVE Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. PYTHAGORAS |