8. Without a combat thou canst not attain unto the

crown of patience.

9. Be thou therefore always prepared for the fight, if thou wilt have the victory.

10. For a small recompense a long journey is undertaken. The most pitiful reward is sought after; for a single bit of money sometimes there is shameful contention. 11. For a vain matter and slight promise men fear not to toil day and night.

12. But alas, for an unchangeable good they grudge even the least fatigue.

13. Who is there that in all things serveth righteousness with so great care as the world and its lords are served withal?

EVEN
GO OUT OF
THY WAY TO

14. Do not only take occasions of doing good when they are thrust upon thee, but study how to do all the good thou canst. Zeal of good works will make thee plot and contrive for them, consult and ask advice for them.

DO GOOD

15. It will make thee glad when thou meetest with a hopeful opportunity; it will make thee do it largely, and not sparingly and by halves.

16. It will make thee do it speedily, without unwilling backwardness or delay; it will make thee do it constantly, to thy life's end.

17. It will make thee labour in it as thy trade, and not only consent that others do good at thy charge.

NOT A SUDDEN

18. Holy zeal is not a sudden flash, but a constant resolution of the soul; like the natural heat and not like a fever; therefore it concocteth and strengtheneth, when false zeal only vexeth and consumeth.

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ASM

19. The signs of a holy zeal are these: it is guided by right judgment, it is a zeal for truth and good, it consisteth with meekness and self-denial and patience as to our own concernments.

20. It is always more careful of the substance than the circumstances; it preferreth great things before small; it contendeth not for small controversies to the loss or wrong of greater truths; it extendeth to every known truth and duty, but in due proportion. It maketh men rather zealous of good works than of their controverted opinions.

21. Holy zeal is always charitable; it is not of a hurting disposition, but is tender and merciful. Zeal against the sin is conjunct with love and pity to the sinner.

22. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence their conscience as their king, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs,

23. To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity.

When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from the entire point.

BE GOOD AND THOU WILT DO GOOD

BEING

IS

1. By desiring what is perfectly good, even when we do not quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the power against evil, widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

2. Even our failures are a prophecy,

Even our yearnings and our bitter tears
After that fair and true we cannot grasp:
As patriots who seem to die in vain,
Make liberty more sacred by their pangs.

3. Say not, the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, they remain.

4. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke concealed,
Thy comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, but for thee, possess the field.

5. I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was my dream, then, a shadowy lie?

DOING

6. Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth, and noon-day light to thee.

7. Be noble! And the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own!

8. Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes, Then will pure light around thy path be shed, And thou wilt never more be sad and lone!

9. Think truly and thy thoughts

Shall the world's famine feed:

Speak truly, and each word of thine

Shall be a fruitful seed:

Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.

WE HAVE WITHIN OURSELVES THE POWER TO DO RIGHT

OUGHT AND

CAN

1. Let it not be in any man's power to say truly of thee that thou art not simple, or that thou art not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall think anything of this kind about thee; and this is altogether in thy power. For who is he that shall hinder thee from being good and simple ?

2. Wipe out thy vain fancies by often saying to thyself: "Now it is in my power to let no badness be in this soul, nor desire, nor any perturbation at all!" Remember this power which thou hast from nature !

3. How can thy principles become dead, unless the thoughts which correspond to them are extinguished? But it is in thy power to fan these thoughts into a continuous flame. Thou canst have that opinion about anything which thou oughtest to have. If thou canst, why art thou disturbed?

4. When Duty whispers low: "Thou must," The youth replies: "I can."

5. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would, By her own radiant light; though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.

6. Men talk of "mere morality," which is much as if one should say, "Poor God, with nobody to help him."