There is something even better than success within the reach of each of us, and that is the consciousness of having manfully striven, in spite of untoward circumstances, faithfully and cheerfully to do our duty in that state of life in which a merciful Providence has cast our lot. This involves patience and endurance, courage and forbearance, and affords numberless opportunities for the exercise of true heroism. An old gentleman, speaking to a young lady and commenting upon her freshness and good looks, remarked : " Ah, my dear, may you long retain them ! Yours is a happy period of life. You know nothing yet of the jealousies, the heart-burnings, the contentions, the rivalries that beset the pathway of existence." " Don't I though !" she interrupted, " I want you to understand that I belong to a church choir."
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Evening Star, Issue 7403, 24 December 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)
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135Untitled Evening Star, Issue 7403, 24 December 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)
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