MAXIMS OF CONDUCT
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Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
—LINCOLN.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
—EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.
Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
—FRANKLIN.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
—DISRAELI.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
—NEW TESTAMENT.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song. —KINGSLEY.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. —POPE.
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. —LOWELL.