THORWALDSEN, 1770. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, In mystery our soul abides; But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. Matthew Arnold. CAN we have too much of truth, and fun, and beauty, and kindness? November 20. Thackeray. I'M proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to be is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. . . . As long as a man sees and believes in some great good, he'll prefer working towards that in the way he's best fit for, come what may. George Eliot. HE who gets up every time he falls, will get up by and by to stay. Proverbial Philosophy. we CERTAINLY not before the All-Perfect One can aspire to merit; but try before Him to live up to our ideal. . . . Human society may punish us for crimes, human monitors may reprove us for vices; but God alone can charge upon us the sin which He alone is able to forgive. SUBDUE thyself - yet to thyself be true. Kant. The cup of strength in some great agony, So shall I join the choir invisible, Whose music is the gladness of the world. George Eliot. To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. Abraham Lincoln. BLESSING she is: God made her so, Lowell. THANK God every morning that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and to do your best will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know. Charles Kingsley. November 24. (PRESIDENT) JAMES G. K. MCCLURE. Now listen, while I tell you how love doth spring! Though oak-like, through long years, it grows, nurtured by ponderings, sorrows, and songs, yet so quickly does it shoot that a moment's space may fix its roots in the soil of the heart. Ibsen. "IF there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." (2 Cor. viii. 12.) President McClure. |