Has joy nor pleasure in it
To satisfy the soul unless
Myself and I shall win it.
The only amaranthine flower is virtue.—Cowper.
Dr. Arnold, whose long experience with youth at Rugby gave weight to his opinion, declared that “the difference between one boy and another consists not so much in talent as in energy.” “The longer I live,” says Sir Thomas Buxton, another student of human character, “the more certain I am that the great difference between men, between the great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination, an honest purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. This quality will do anything in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.”
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.—Beaconsfield.
Says an old Latin proverb: “Opportunity has hair in front, but is bald behind. Seize him by the forelock.”
The only knowledge that a man has is the knowledge he can use.—Macaulay.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.—Addison.
There is a sufficient recompense in the very consciousness of a noble deed.—Cicero.