Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Part 31

Work while you work, play while you play; This is the way to be cheerful and gay.

All that you do, do with your might; Things done by halves are never done right.

--STODART

Five things observe with care,-- Of whom you speak, to whom you speak And how, and when, and where.

--GRAY

See that little sunbeam Darting through the room, Scattering the darkness, Lighting up the gloom.

Let me be a sunbeam Everywhere I go, Making glad and happy Every one I know.

Sing a song of seasons!

Something bright in all!

Flowers in the summer, Fires in the fall!

--STEVENSON

Do all the good you can, In all the ways you can, To all the people you can, Just as long as you can.

When you come to think of it, The day is what you make it; And whether good, or whether bad, Depends on how you take it.

Slumber, slumber, little one, now The bird is asleep in his nest on the bough; The bird is asleep, he has folded his wings, And over him softly the dream fairy sings:

Lullaby, lullaby--lullaby!

Pearls in the deep-- Stars in the sky, Dreams in our sleep; So lullaby!

--F. D. SHERMAN

Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie.

The face you wear, the thoughts you bring, A heart may heal or break.

He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else.--FRANKLIN

To _be_ good is the mother of to _do_ good.

I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll try to mend, And endure what can't be mended.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds; For when the weeds begin to grow, Then doth the garden overflow.

Little children, you must seek Rather to be good than wise, For the thoughts you do not speak Shine out in your cheeks and eyes.

--ALICE CARY

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.--SADI

All that's great and good is done Just by patient trying.

'Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again; If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again.

If a task is once begun, Never leave it till it's done; Be the labour great or small, Do it well, or not at all.

For every evil under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none.

If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.

There are many flags in many lands, There are flags of every hue, But there is no flag in any land Like our own Red, White, and Blue.

The inner side of every cloud Is always bright and shining; And so I turn my clouds about, And always wear them inside out, To show the silver lining.

I would not hurt a living thing, However weak or small; The beasts that graze, the birds that sing, Our Father made them all.

Little drop of dew, Like a gem you are; I believe that you Must have been a star.

When the day is bright, On the gra.s.s you lie; Tell me then, at night Are you in the sky?

--F. D. SHERMAN

How beautiful is the rain!

After the dust and the heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain!

--LONGFELLOW

In spring, when stirs the wind, I know That soon the crocus buds will show; For 'tis the wind who bids them wake And into pretty blossoms break.

--F. D. SHERMAN

O, pause and think for a moment What a desolate land it would be, If, east or west, the eye should rest On not a single tree!

--GRAY

It was only a sunny smile, And little it cost in the giving, But it scattered the night, Like the morning light, And made the day worth living.