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By Trying We Learn 109
in our actions and seek to please Him alone in all
things."
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o ONE knows what he can do until he tries. The
gems of success are in every nature, but hard
work is required in order to mature them. It has been
said that genius is infmite patience. He who fixes his
eyes on a certain goal, be it ever m high, and makes
for it with all his strength, is pretty sure to rise above
the difficulties that beset his path. This is true in the
moral as well as in the intellectual worid.
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ou can be a saint, and indeed a great saint; it
Y depends on your own will what shall be pur lot
in eternity; God gives abundant grace in response to
prayer. With the Apostle you can say: "I can do
all things in Him, who strengtheneth me" (Phdipp.
iv. 13).
"To be saints," says the Blessed Antony Grassi,
"we need not work miracles, but we must faithfully
observe the Christian faith." If you are in the state
of grace and firmly resolved not to offend God, you
are a saint. Aim high; strive to become ever more
perfect. "Be you perfect," says Our Lord, "as also
your heavenly Father is perfect." .-
Let "Excelsior" be your watchword.
What does Longfellow tell us in his "Psalm of Life":
" Life is real I Life is earnest I
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
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