The Washington herald., 1909-05-23
OPTIMIST CLUB MEMBERS GIVE VIEWS ON AMBITION

helps to make others happy is :he best
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Psnsior o6ee.
To help each other should Be OuE best
ambition.
II any little kindly deed
Wnl help along another,
II any little song OF ours
VIII life fallen brother;
God help as Go the little deed.
and take cur shave % singing.
And put II h some lonely vale
TO set the echoes ringing
ROSE EARLE BABcook-
wssisy Hsigha D c.
Ambition IS the incentive through which
our talents are developed until tney reach
the highest degree Of excellence.
Fssdssicksburs. Va.
So take and use Thy work.
amend what flaws may turk
What strain OF the stu1. what warpinss
Part the aim!
ny times be in Try hand,
Perfect the cup rs planned
Let zge approve Of youth and death
ISABEL @ PRICE
EdrAm Va
without ambition We may exist. bat no
one lives in the true sense Of the word
who Is not ambitious. Always reach out
for something better, higher, greater until
We climb 70 the top rang OF the ladder
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meet with fruition II We are brave, coura-
geOus. perssvering, faithful. hopeful.
kind, and considerate, always remember
ing We must help each other.
lssT Irzins ztrses.
TO be ambitious Of true honor. OF the
/ true glory and perfection Of our natures
I is the very principle and incentive of
virtue: but &c be ambitious OF titles. OF
place. 81 ceremonial respects and civil
! pageantry Is as vain and little as the
things are which We eourt--Sir P Sidney.
~ E sssve. sorsAeaz
Look hizh. 0 souli for what is wealth but
And the aeeting shadow of the better
The heavens are thine II thou wit Us,
And sighs are songs # thou Wit oniy
trust.
Aim high. o soul. for on the higher forms
Is always ROOM the lower ranks are
fTed:
Who climbs the heights WI ira earth's
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storms
Be high. o soun seOrn what is low and
Child q a king they eau thee; be a king.
And troops OF vassals shall their tribute
To crown thee heir Of glory. chnd Of
grace. CEAs D. BULJ-A-
I AlszaEdris. Va.
Ambition is a blessing OF a curse.
A light that leads as on 20 noble deeds:
/ That spuTring on to victory still comedies
TO honor, virtue. truth q greater place
Than any honors Won n lifes great race;
I But falling this. il makes our state far
worse
Than II its light had ne'er Hlurned our
course. EDWARD 2. FLANAGAN.
III Cistou z-c~t rorthzesi.
without ambition ws creep through life
with a suaii-llSe pace annotieed and IN
/ known with II we soar ike an eagle,
take station above oUr fellow-men. and
I often WELD scepteTs and govern nations
BY our nod--Bartiett
II Twelfth stTrvs norsaTcst
! Rest not Life IS sweeping by
Go and dare before you die
Something mighty ard sublime.
/ Leave behind 70 conquer Times
! Glorious It's 70 I've FOR aye.
When these forms have passed away
Goethe.
MARTHA GARNER
IL TvsHrh sTee-
"Aizn high, ny sriend. thy shaft may fal
Thy bow break in thy hands it matters
not
Aim higher stn. no broken bow cans
break thy VII.
40 ulissent shaft thy purpose KIN,
So upward let thine arrows fys aim high
IAsfES CONWAY JACKSON.
81 Fourteenth ssreet noTthweSt-
Il Is not for man 10 rest IN absolute
/ couteEtrneEt He IS born 70 hopes aoo as
pirations. as the sparks ny upward, IN
less he has brutiied his nature anS
dCenched the spirit OK Immortality which
Il his portion.-Southey z r. ELLIOT.
1855 Nozroe street
We 50 often have had It impressed uPor
US that any boy born n this land OF ths
free and nome of the brave may som,
DAY become It's President As q matter Of
fact. that honor can fail 70 but very few
bur here's the point. Isn't the boy vhS
/ consistently sspires TO be President goins
70 go farther than ne who is content wItf
some ,ower aim n life or who has ne
l,hrs. song are three followers Of hs