MARCH FOURTH
Reading edition
Casimer Pulaski born 1748.
Sir Henry Raeburn born 1756.
E. W. Bull, originator Concord grape, born 1806.
Alexander Graham Bell born 1847.
It is perfectly obvious that men do necessarily absorb, out of the influences in which they grow up, something which gives a complexion to their whole after-character.
—Anthony Froude.
All common things, each day's events That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. —Henry W. Longfellow.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. I
—Shakespeare.
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.
—1 Samuel 17. 49.
My Father, I would remember that my life may decline from the neglect of small things; for as thou dost nourish the wheat from flakes of snow, and supply the springs from drops of rain, so thou wilt strengthen my soul from every little blessing. I pray that I may not forget to watch my habits, and keep track of the hours that culture and sustain my life. Amen.