Graded Memory Selections Part 23

--_M. W. Beck._

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

--_Longfellow._

Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.

--_George Herbert._

If wisdom's ways you'd wisely seek, Five things observe with care,-- _Of_ whom you speak, _to_ whom you speak, And _how_, and _when_, and _where._

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

--_Gay._

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

--_Bulwer Lytton._

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view And clothes the mountain with its azure hue.

--_Campbell._

Give fools their gold and knaves their power, Let fortune's bubble rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree is more than all.

--_Whittier._

Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

--_Longfellow._

Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

--_Young._

Errors, like straws upon the surface flow; He who would seek for pearls must dive below.

--_Dryden._

The cross, if rightly borne, shall be No burden, but support to thee.

--_Whittier._

Oh, deem it not an idle thing A pleasant word to speak; The face you wear, the thoughts you bring, A heart may heal or break.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,-- And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each; Let no future dreams elate thee,-- Learn thou first what these can teach.

FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

--_Robart._

Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part; there all the honor lies.

--_Pope._

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

--_Shaw._

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

--_Chesterfield._

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

--_Goethe._

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._

All that's great and good is done Just by patient trying.

--_Phoebe Cary._