Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh — holystone the decks and scrape the cable.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882) American lawyer, politician, sailor, writer
Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 3 “Ships Duties — Tropics” (1840)
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Dana refers to this rubric about the endless labor aboard a sailing ship as the "Philadelphia Catechism."
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Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect. — If, we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman, essayist, wit
Sermon (1809 pub.), “On the Judgments We Form of Others”
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Sermon on Leviticus 19:15.
O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
“Going Up to Jerusalem,” Selected Sermons [ed. William Scarlett (1949)]
