Three Quotes

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true; I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."     ~ Abraham Lincoln

"Courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones; and then when you have accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.  God is awake."    ~ Victor Hugo 

 "In a sad hour I have seen, through the window, mounted on a rail back of my house, one of those curious-eyed little sparrows.  And he was a better preacher to me than I am to you.  It was winter, and there was not guaranteed to it one days’ food, nor any protection, from any source in their world.  It was wholly dependent upon its God.  And yet it sang --- sang for its own hearing, and sang for my rebuke, saying to me “Are ye not much more than I?  And God thinks of me, and takes care of me,” How much there is in the voice of nature if we only knew how to interpret it!"    ~ Henry Ward Beecher