INSPIRATION
Words to Inspire
A Thing of Beauty
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth. John Keats
Introspection
This above all: to thine own self be true Ans it must follow. as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to. any man. Hamlet, Act. I, Scene III, William Shakespeare
Persistence
Heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward through the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Harder the Conflict
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated” Thomas Paine 12/23/1776