Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: saying, Then I will do it. No; this will never answer. ' Now is ours, then may never be. Longfellow says? Trust no future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead Past bury its dead; Act, ?act in the living Present, Heart within, and God o'erhead Never defer till to-morrow what can be done at the present time. If you have a lesson to learn, begin at once; by constant repetition you will accomplish it. If you wish to acquire any particular branch of education, you must be studious; by practice you will surmount many difficulties. Should you have an important duty to perform, never defer it; by so doing you may bring life-long trouble upon others. Be prompt in your actions; whatever you undertake try and fulfil. Never promise what you cannot perform. Learn punctuality and self-reliance; then there will be no occasion to rely on another's ability for help. When you have decided upon doing a thing, do it. Begin. Do not delay. Everything must have a commencement. The first weed pulled up in the garden, the first seed put into the ground, the first shilling into the savings bank, and the first mile travelled on a journey, are all very important things; they make a beginning, and thereby a hope, a promise, a pledge, an assurance, that you are in earnest with what you have undertaken. How many a poor, idle, hesitating, erring outcast is now creeping through the world, who might have held up his head and prospered, if, instead of putting off his resolutions of amendment and industry, he had made a beginning. A beginning, a good beginning, too, is necessary: Had not the base been laid by builders wise, The pyramids had never reached the skies. PATIENCE. Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait, not in listless idleness, not in useless pastime, not in q...