<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Don’t Quit</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>by Edgar A. Guest</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">When the funds are low but the debts are high,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">And you want to smile but you have to sigh,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">When care is pressing you down a bit,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Life is strange with its twists and turns,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">As every one of us sometimes learns,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">And many failures turn about</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">When we might have won had we stuck it out.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Don’t give up though the pace seems slow –</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">You may succeed with another blow.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Success is failure turned inside out –</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">You can never tell how close you are,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">It may be near when it seems so far;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit –</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt; line-height: 16.8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>