gg^ Rural School Leaflet. 



QUOTATIONS 



" Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, — • 

 These three alone lead life to sovereign power." 



— Alfred Tennyson. 



" You cannot dream yourself into a character; 

 You must hammer and forge yourself one." 



— Henry D. Thoreau. 



" I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the 



gods who knows how to be silent even though he is in the right." — Cato. 



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 " Nature-study not only educates, but it educates nature-ward; and nature 



is ever our companion, whether we will or no. Even though we are determined to 



shut ourselves in an office, nature sends her messengers. The light, the dark, the 



moon, the cloud, the rain, the wind, the falling leaf, the fly, the bouquet, the bird, 



the cockroach^they are all ours. Few of us can travel. We must know the 



things at home." — L. H. Bailey in " The Nature-Sttidy Idea." 



" And she climbs at last to a berg set free, 



That drifteth slow: 

 And she sails to the edge of the world we see : 

 And waits till the wings of the north wind lean 

 Like an eagle's wings o'er a lochan of green, 



And the pale stars glow 



On berg and flow * * * * 

 Then down on our world with a wild laugh of glee 

 She empties her lap full of shimmer and sheen. 

 And that is the way in a dream I have seen 



The Weaver of Snow. 



— Fiona Macleod in " From the Hills of Dream." 



" We walk silent among disputes and assertions but reject not the disputers, nor 

 any thing that is asserted, 



We hear the bawling and din — we are reached at by divisions, jealousies, recrimi- 

 nations on every side, 



They close peremptorily upon us, to surround us, my comrade. 



Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down, till we 

 make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras, 



Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, 

 may prove brethren and lovers, as we are," — Walt Whitman. 



