Resolution

There is nothing in man so potential for weal or woe, as firmncss of purpose. Resolution is almost omnipotent. Sheridan was at iïrst timid, and obliged to sit down in Uie niidstof a speech. Convinced of, and mortified at the cause of liis failure, he said onc day to n friend. "It is in me, and it shall come out." From that moment he rose and shone, and triumphed in a consummato eloquence. Ilere was true moral courage. And it was well observed by a heathen moralist, that it is not because things are diflicult that wc dare not undertake them, but they appear diiïicult because we dare not undertake them. Be then bold in spint. Indulgo no doubts for doubts aro tral tors. In the practical )ursuit of our high aim.let us nevé r loosc sightof kin the slightest instancc - (or it is more by a disregard of small things, than by open and flagrant ofi'ences, that men come short of excellence.