PERSEVERANCE-PATRIOTISM.

"Never give up; for the wisest is boldest, Knowing that Providence mingles the cup, And of all maxims, the best as the oldest, Is the true watchword of 'Never give up.'' "He conquers who endures."

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt:
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

HERRICK.

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one common pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

DR. S. JOHNSON.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt! Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

R. HERRICK.

PATRIOTISM.

I fancy the proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

SHENSTONE.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead

Who never to himself hath said,

"This is my own, my native land?”

SCOTT.

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PATRIOTISM.

Be just and fear not.

Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's: then if thou fallest, O Cromwell!

Thou fallest a blessed martyr.

SHAKESPEARE.

Strike till the last armed foe expires;
Strike for your altars and your fires;

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Strike for the green graves of your sires,

God and your native land!

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One nation evermore.

O Land of lands! to thee we give

HOLMES.

Our prayers, our hopes, our service free, For thee thy sons shall nobly live,

And at thy need shall die for thee !

J. G. WHITTIER.

Our Country first, their glory and their pride, Land of their hopes, land where their fathers died,

When in the right, they'll keep thy honor bright, When in the wrong, they'll die to set it right. JAMES T. FIELDS.

PRAYER.

When you lie down, close your eyes with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your faithful Creator; and when you have done trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Be not afraid to pray

JEREMY TAYLOR. is right;

to pray

Pray if thou canst in hope,

- O, ever pray,

If hope be weak and sick with long delay Pray in the darkness, if thou hast no light. HARTLEY Coleridge.

Let prayer be the key of the morning, and the bolt of the evening.

MATTHEW HENRY.

Let the day have a blessed baptism by giving your first waking thoughts into the bosom of God. The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

H. W. BEECHER.

Sister, the holy maid does well
Who counts her beads in convent cell,
Where pale devotion lingers;

But she who serves the sufferer's needs,
Whose prayers are spent in loving deeds,
May trust the Lord will count her beads,
As well as human fingers.

O. W. HOLMES.

PRAYER.

I pray the prayer of Plato old,
God make thee beautiful within,
And let thine eyes the good behold,

In everything save sin.

J. G. WHITTIER.

Prayer is Innocence's friend, and willingly flieth

incessant,

'Twixt the earth and the sky, the carrier pigeon

of Heaven.

H. W. LONGFELLOW.

Though oft like letters traced in sand
My weak resolves have passed away,

In mercy lend thy helping hand

Unto my prayers to-day.

J. G. WHITTIER.

Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers, Whose loves in higher love endure,

Whose souls possess themselves so pure,

Or is there blessedness like theirs?

TENNYSON.

The blue sky is the temple's arch,
Its transept earth and air,

The music of its starry march

The chorus of its prayer.

J. G. WHITTIER.

PRAYER.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

H. W. BEECHER.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

TENNYSON.

Trouble and perplexity drive us to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

MELANCTHON.

Sinning makes you leave off praying, and praying makes you leave off sinning.

J. SUTCLIFFE.

He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small :
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.

COLERIDGE.

Prayer is the chief thing that man may

present to God.

HERMES.

Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon.

RICHTER.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we

see God.

AMBROSE.