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The Simple Life Which Blandly Ignores All Care And Conflict, Soon Becomes Flabby And Invertebrate, Sentimental And Gelatinous.

The Strength Of Your Life Is Measured By The Strength Of Your Will.

The Shadow By My Finger Cast Divides The Future From The Past: Before It, Sleeps The Unborn Hour, In Darkness, And Beyond Thy Power. Behind Its Unreturning Line, The Vanished Hour, No Longer Thine: One Hour Alone Is In Thy Hands,- The Now On Which The Shadow Stands.

A Clean And Sensitive Conscience, A Steady And Scrupulous Integrity In Small Things As Well As Large, Is The Most Valuable Of All Possessions, To A Nation As To An Individual.

Count Not The Cost Of Honour To The Dead!the Tribute That A Mighty Nation Paysto Those Who Loved Her Well In Former Daysmeans More Than Gratitude For Glories Fled;for Every Noble Man That She Hath Bred,lives In The Bronze And Marble That We Raise,immortalised By Art's Immortal Praise,to Lead Our Sons As He Our Fathers Led.