gery, "gray angel of success;"
Enduring purpose, waiting long and long,
Headache or heartache, blent with sigh or song,
Forever delving mid the strife and stress:
Within the bleak confines of your duress
Are laid the firm foundations, deep and strong,
Whereon men build the right against the wrong,--
The toil-wrought monuments that lift and bless.

The coral reefs; the bee's o'erflowing cells;
The Pyramids; all things that shall endure;
The books on books wherein all wisdom dwells,
Are wrought with plodding patience, slow and sure.
Yours the time-tempered fashioning that spells
Of chaos, order, perfect and secure.

[Illustration: GEORGE ELIOT]

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[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
gathered in this section.]

I think that there is success in all honest endeavor, and that there
is some victory gained in every gallant struggle that is made.--Dickens.

Every noble work is at first impossible.--Carlyle.

Truth is a strong thing, let man's life be true.--Browning.

Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous--a spirit
all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.
--Carlyle.

Pass no day idly; youth does not return.--Chinese Proverb.

If, instead of a gem, or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a
lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the
angels must give.--George MacDonald.

Nothing can constitute good breeding that has not good manners for its
foundation.--Bulwer Lytton.

The common earth is common only to those who are deaf to the voices
and blind to the visions which wait on it and make its flight a music
and its path a light.--H. W. Mabie.

The truest lives are those that are cut rose-diamond-fashion, with
many facets answering to the many-planed aspects of the world about
them.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.

It seems to me there is no maxim for a noble life like this: Count
always your highest moments your truest moments.--Phillips Brooks.

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence
to do good to others with them.--Joseph Cook.

Believe me, girls, on the road of life you and I will find few things
more worth while than comradeship.--Margaret E. Sangster.

Do noble things, not dream them, all day long, and so make life,
death, and the vas