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He who would make his life a precious thing 
Must nurse a kindly purpose in his soul. 
“These lines were your confession. There was a great secret purpose 
which you were cherishing. You worked for that. You saved for that. 
For that you had the secret joy of living sparely, austerely as a soldier. 
“Sir, you have no son. But the scholars who work upon the foun- 
dation which you have established here shall be your sons. Far down 
the years when all of us are in the dust your virile sons shall be here 
keeping alive your name and your hope. And so shall be fulfilled your 
saying that 
They live longest in the future who 
Have truest kept the purposes of life.” 
