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Dad's Poem

Click here to read a poem I wrote for my dad.

DON'T QUIT

"When things go wrong
As they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit...
Rest if you must--but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won if he'd stuck it out.
Don't give up, though the peace seems slow
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things go wrong
That you musntn't guit"

---------------UNKNOWN-------------------------

"Lose this day loitering,
'Twill be the same story
Tomorrow--and the next more dilatory.
Then indecision brings its own delays,
and days are lost lamenting over days!
Are you in earnest?Seize this very minute!
What you can do, or dream you can--begin it!
Courage has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated.
Begin it, and the work will be completed."

---------------------------GOETHE------------------------------

"In any moment of decision,
The best thing you can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing."

----------------Theodore Roosevelt-----------------------