Beautiful Sentiment by Nott

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1879

Beautiful Sentiment.

By Nott

I WOULD frown on vice; I would favor virtue--favor whatever would elevate, would exalt, would adorn character, alleviate the miseries of my own species, or contribute to render the world I inhabit, like the heavens to which I looked, a place of innocence and felicity. Though I were to exist no longer than those ephemera that sport in the beams of the summer's morn, during that short hour I would rather soar with the eagle, and leave the record of my flight and my fall among the stars, than to creep in the gutter with the reptile, and bed my memory and my body together in the dunghill. However short my part, I would act it well, that I might surrender my existence without disgrace and without compunction. —Nott.