So, still within this life, Though lifted o'er its strife, Let me discern, compare, pronounce at last, 66 This rage was right i' the main, "This acquiescence vain: "The Future I may face now I have proved the Past." Robert Browning. BLESSED is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. September 2. EUGENE FIELD, 1850. Carlyle. EITHER write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin. TRAIN the understanding. Take care that the mind has a stout and straight stem. Leave the flowers of wit and fancy to come of themselves. Augustus Hare. TACT is a gift; it is likewise a grace. As a gift, it may or may not have fallen to our share; as a grace, we are bound either to possess or to acquire it. Christina Rossetti. THEM that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others. September 4. Barrie. Do you know anything about education of which the Greeks have not taught us at least the rudiments? To produce health, that is, harmony and sympathy, proportion and grace, in every faculty of mind and body, — that was their notion of education. Charles Kingsley. As the bird wings and sings Let us cry all good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul. Robert Browning. RICHELIEU, 1585. VAIN, bootless pursuers of honor and fame! When put in the balance of friendship and love. Tennyson. THE weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race. September 6. Ruskin. BE strong, and he shall establish your heart, all ye trust in the Lord. that Psalter for Sixth Day, Morning Prayer. AND they remembered not past unhappiness because of present joy; nor that the chill of coming Winter was in the air, because it was Summer in their hearts; and this is the eternal magic of love. Kate Douglas Wiggin. |