--_Scott._

SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES.

To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

--_Shakespeare._

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

--_Lowell._

What must of necessity be done, you can always find out how to do.

--_Ruskin._

He fails not who makes truth his cause,
Nor bends to win the crowd's applause,
He fails not--he who stakes his all
Upon the right and dares to fall.

--_Richard Watson Gilder._

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead!

--_Longfellow._

Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

--_Longfellow._

Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou aimest at, be thy
country's, thy God's, and truth's.

--_Shakespeare._

For of all sad words of tongue or pen--
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

--_Whittier._

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers.

--_Bryant._

Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies;--
Hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower,--but if I could understand
What you are, root and all--and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

--_Tennyson._

Life is the beat possible thing we can make of it.

--_Curtis._

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.

--_Pope._