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Graded Memory Selections
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
—Young.Errors, like straws upon the surface flow;He who would seek for pearls must dive below.—Dryden.The cross, if rightly borne, shall beNo burden, but support to thee.—Whittier.Oh, deem it not an idle thingA pleasant word to speak;The face you wear, the thoughts you bring,A heart may heal or break.Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,—And, departing, leave behind usFootprints 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 sunViews 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 doneJust by patient trying.—Phœbe 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 flowersWill trail upon the ground.—Alice Cary.Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
—Shakespeare.Cloud and sun together make the year;Without some storms no rainbow could appear.—Alice Cary.The noblest service comes from nameless hands,And the best servant does his work unseen.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.He who seeks to pluck the starsWill lose the jewels at his feet.—Phœbe Cary.For he who is honest is noble,Whatever his fortunes or birth.—Alice Cary.There’s never a leaf or a blade too meanTo be some happy creature’s palace.—James Russell Lowell.No endeavor is in vain.Its reward is in the doing;And the rapture of pursuingIs the prize the vanquished gain.—Longfellow.Press on! if once and twice thy feetSlip back and stumble, harder try.—Benjamin.Dare to do right; dare to be true;The failings of others can never save you;Stand by your conscience, your honor, your faith—Stand like a hero, and battle till death!He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.
—Bible.He prayeth best who loveth bestAll things, both great and small;For the dear God who loveth us,He made and loveth all.—Coleridge.Hours are golden links, God’s token,Reaching heaven, but one by oneTake them; lest the chain be brokenEre the pilgrimage be done.—A. A. Proctor.There is a lesson in each flower,A story in each stream and bower;On every herb on which we tread,Are written words which, rightly read,Will lead us from earth’s fragrant sodTo hope and holiness and God.Oh, many a shaft at random sent,Finds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spoken,May soothe, or wound, a heart that’s broken.—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 liesIn 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 allUpon 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 understandWhat 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.There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.—Shakespeare.To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing, end them?—Shakespeare.Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
—Webster.Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
—Thomas Carlyle.With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.
—Lincoln.Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear;Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.—Gray.POOR RICHARD’S SAYINGS
God helps them that help themselves.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
What we call time enough always proves little enough.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy.
Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Industry needs not wish.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
Have you somewhat to do to-morrow, do it to-day.
God gives all things to industry: then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and to keep.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
If you would have your business done, go; if not, send.
He that by the plough would thrive,Himself must either hold or drive.Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets put out the kitchen fire.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
Many a little makes a mickle.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Wise men learn by others’ harms, fools scarcely by their own.
When the well is dry they know the worth of water.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
Vessels large may venture more,But little boats should keep near shore.What is a butterfly? at bestHe’s but a caterpillar drest;The gaudy fop’s his picture just.For age and want save while you may.
No morning sun lasts a whole day.
Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
Get what you can, and what you get, hold, ’Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.
Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
The key, often used, is always bright.
But dost thou love life? then do not waste time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.
Lost time is never found again.
There are no gains without pains.
At the workingman’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
The cat in gloves catches no mice.
By industry and patience the mouse ate into the cable.
Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
A workingman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
It is folly for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox.
It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease.
If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.
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From “Along the Way,” copyright 1879 by Mary Mapes Dodge, and published by Chas. Scribner’s Sons.
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From “Love Songs of Childhood.” Copyright, 1894, by Eugene Field. Reprinted by permission of the publishers, Chas. Scribner’s Sons.
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From “The Complete Poetical Writings of J. G. Holland,” copyright 1879-1881 by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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Copyrighted by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
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Copyrighted by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
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All rights reserved.
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From “Love Songs of Childhood.” Copyright, 1894, by Eugene Field. Reprinted by permission of the publishers, Chas. Scribner’s Sons.
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From “Love Songs of Childhood.” Copyright, 1894, by Eugene Field. Reprinted by permission of the publishers, Chas. Scribner’s & Sons.
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Copyrighted by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
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From “Afterwhiles,” copyrighted 1887, by Bowen-Merrill Co. Must not be reprinted without permission from the publishers.
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By permission from Edwin Markham’s “Joy of the Hills and Other Poems,” copyright by Doubleday & McClure, New York.
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In a recent critical article, in the London Athenæum is the sentence: “In point of power, workmanship and feeling, among all the poems written by Americans, we are inclined to give first place to the ‘Port of Ships’ (or ‘Columbus’) by Joaquin Miller.”
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bards, ancient poets.
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benediction, blessing.
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Boston.
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Charlestown.
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grenadiers, British soldiers.
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From “Afterwhiles,” copyrighted 1887, by Bowen-Merrill Co. Must not be reprinted without permission from the publishers.
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mimic, copies (toys).
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encumbered, burdened.
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Aquarius, water-bearer.
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seer, prophet, wise man.
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From “The Complete Poetical Writings Of J. G. Holland,” copyright 1879-1881 by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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