“I do not ask for place among
Great thinkers who have taught and sung,
And scorned to bend
Under the trifles of the hour–
I would not lose the power
To comprehend.”
“These lessons thou dost give
To teach me how to live,
To do, to bear,
To get, to share,
To work and play,
And trust always.”
The business of life is learning. We know nothing when we begin. On the tomb of an English historian is the inscription, “He died learning.” Learning is not confined to what we get from reading books. All life is a school, and books are ever being put into our hands, and lessons are set for us continually.
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