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Show Never Despair. "This battle is lost," said Desaix to Bonaparte at Marengo, "but there is yet time to win anotherl" With the aid of Desaix, the conquerer of kings, never stopping to brood over his misfortune, won that auspicious victory vic-tory soon after blazoned on the banners of his guards. Repentance is a blessed state of mind, but in and of itself -it never Baved the day. Despair over de feat may be perfectly natural, but it has never won another victory. A conscientious consci-entious but erring lady said the other day that she spent much time in Borrowing Borrow-ing over past mistakes, and thus she committed the biggest mistake of all. "Never despair!" said Sir ; Walter Scott, eitting down, an aged cripple, to write off a debt of stupendous size, nor resting until he had accomplished his purpose. "Never despair!" muttered that gallant gal-lant Frenchman, Bernard Palissy, as he hurled his last stick of furniture into the furnace containing the first glazed porcelain porce-lain ever made in modern years. Hence never despair. New York Ledger. |