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._

No star is lost we ever once have seen:
We always may be what we might have been.

--_Adelaide Proctor._

Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

--_Longfellow._

Too much of joy is sorrowful,
So cares must needs abound,
The vine that bears too many flowers
Will trail upon the ground.

--_Alice Cary._

Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.