We call the large majority of human lives obscure. Presumptuous that we are! How know we what lives a single thought retained from the dust of nameless graves may have lighted to renown?
CHAPTER XIV.
COURAGE.
Quit yourselves like men. —1 Samuel iv. 9
Cowards have no luck. —Elizabeth Kulman.
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. —Emerson.
To dare is better than to doubt,
For doubt is always grieving;
'Tis faith that finds the riddles out;
The prize is for believing.
—Henry Burton.
—Walk
Boldly and wisely in that light thou hast;
There is a hand above will help thee on.
—Bailey's Festus.
"Have hope! Though clouds environ now,
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow—
No night but hath its morn."