COURAGE and comfort! All shall yet go well. Shakespeare. For the sages say, that the world makes way For the earnest soul that says "I will.” ́EEP your Courage up, and, conversely, it will ΚΕΙ keep you up. WHEN you get into a tight place, and every thing goes against you, till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll Harriet Beecher Stowe. turn. NOT suffering but faint heart is worst of woes. James Russell Lowell. COURAGE is a virtue that the young cannot spare; to lose it is to grow old before the time it is better to make a thousand mistakes and suffer a thousand reverses than run away from battle. - Henry van Dyke. THROUGH wish, resolve, and act, our will And no man measures in advance, His strength with untried circumstance. BREATHE the air of hope and faith and courage To make you resolute and strong. -William J. Lampton. IT is grand to look forward and see the heavens brighten with the dawn of a new day; but there never yet was light upon the sky which was not meant to illuminate the ground about our feet, and show each of us his bit of work waiting for him there. George Adam Smith. THERE will always be stars through the window bars if we look to see them shine. Mabel W. Clapp. "THERE HERE are three kinds of people in the world, the wills, the won'ts, and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything, the second oppose everything, and the third fail in everything.” I WILL give you three secrets of success, piety, perseverance, and probity; a gracious soul, a forceful will, and a blameless life. -7. T. Davidson. WHAT we call Luck is simply Pluck, And the doing things over and over; Courage and will, perseverance and skill, Are the four leaves of Luck's clover. Anon. ENERGY, invincible determination, with a right motive, are the levers that move the world. Porter. BE strong and of a good courage. Be not afraid; neither be thou discouraged; for I, the Lord thy God, am with thee whithersoever thou goest. - Joshua 1: 9. HIS resolve Upbore him, and firm faith, and evermore Prayer from a living source within the will, And beating up through all the bitter world, Like fountains of sweet water in the sea, Kept him a living soul. WE prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by our reiterated choice of good or evil. |