Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Part 34

New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth.

--LOWELL

The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

--LONGFELLOW

Nothing useless is, or low, Each thing in its place is best, And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

--LONGFELLOW

And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.

--CLOUGH

Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

--GRAY

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.--BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I do not know Where falls the seed that I have tried to sow With greatest care; But I shall know The meaning of each waiting hour below Sometime, somewhere!

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

--LONGFELLOW

Begin while life is bright and young, Work out each n.o.ble plan; True knowledge lends a charm to youth, And dignifies the man.

Then upward, onward, step by step, With perseverance rise, And emulate, with hearts of hope, The good, the great, the wise.

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

--FRANCIS BOURDILLON

In the darkness as in daylight, On the water as on land, G.o.d's eye is looking on us, And beneath us is His hand!

Death will find us soon or later, On the deck or in the cot; And we cannot meet him better Than in working out our lot.

--WHITTIER

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength--the floating bulwark of our Island.--BLACKSTONE'S _Commentaries_

It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose.

The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent.

--TENNYSON

O triune kingdom of the brave, O sea-girt island of the free, O empire of the land and wave Our hearts, our hands, are all for thee.

Stand, Canadians, firmly stand, Round the flag of our Fatherland.

--LACLEDE

Sharers of our glorious past, Brothers, must we part at last?

Shall we not thro' good and ill Cleave to one another still?

Britain's myriad voices call, "Sons, be welded each and all Into one Imperial whole, One with Britain, heart and soul!

One life, one flag, one fleet, one Throne!"

Britons, hold your own!

--TENNYSON

"England! What thou wert, thou art!"

Gird thee with thine ancient might.

Forth! and G.o.d defend the Right.

--NEWBOLT

Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak people do; But still believe that story wrong Which ought not to be true.

--SHERIDAN

He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small, For the dear G.o.d who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

--COLERIDGE

For whatever men say in blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as Kindness, And nothing so royal as Truth.

--ALICE CARY

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.--LUBBOCK

Small service is true service while it lasts.

Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drops from the sun.

--WORDSWORTH

Look up and not down; Look forward and not back; Look out and not in; And lend a hand.

--HALE

Have you had a kindness shown?

Pa.s.s it on.

'Twas not given for you alone, Pa.s.s it on.