January 6
Daily Cheer for All the YearBe not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.—ROM. xii, 21.
He best deserves a noble crest Who slays the evil that infest His soul within. If victor here, He soon will find a wider sphere. The world is cold to him who pleads, The world bows low to knightly deeds.
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
PLATO.
To conquer by the moral manifestation of the will is to conquer like a god. To conquer by the manifestation of brute force is to conquer like a beast.
ELIHU BURRITT.
A man can do without his own approbation in much society, but he must make great exertions to gain it when he lives alone.
SIDNEY SMITH.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth, or a man or woman left to say, "I will redress that wrong, or spend my life in the attempt." The age of chivalry is never past so long as we have faith enough to say, "God will help me to redress that wrong; or, if not me, He will help those that come after me, for His eternal will is to overcome evil with good."
CHARLES KINGSLEY.