Marion Lightbourn diary

This is not right, is not just , is not true to the best that is in you. For I know and esteem you, and feel that your nature is noble, Lifting mine up be a higher, a more etherial level.

Therefore I value your friendship and feel it perhaps the more [keenly?] If you say aught that implies I am only as one among many If you make use of those common and complimentary phrases Most men think so fine, in dealing and speaking with women But which women reject as insipid if not as insulting"

"Let us then, be what we are, and speak what we think & in all ^things Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship

It is no secret I tell you, nor am I ashamed to declare it: I have liked to be with you, to see you, to speak with you always, So I was hurt at your words " -

Selections from The Ladder of St Augustine_

All thoughts of ill; all evil deeds, That have their root is thoughts of ill Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will;_

All these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, of we would, gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain.

We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale & climb by slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they, while their companion slept Were toiling upward in the night

Nor deem the irrevocable past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

Success . Success is found in self-control In lifting up our fellow man In purity of life and soul In working our what Christ began

'Tls found in words & actions kind Through every day, to every one In cultivating heart & mind In every duty nobly done_