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Question not, but live and labour
Till yon goal be won,
Helping every feeble neighbour,
Seeking help from none;
Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.

— Adam Lindsay Gordon

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Variants

Many quoters, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919), have "in our own" instead of "in your own".

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Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.

Onward onward! must we travel?
When will come the goal?
Riddle I may not unravel,
Cease to vex my soul.

I would live the same life over if I had to live again,
And the chances are I go where most men go.

Let me slumber in the hollow where the wattle blossoms wave,
With never stone or rail to fence my bed;
Should the sturdy station children pull the bush flowers on my grave,
I may chance to hear them romping overhead.

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