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For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.

— George Linnaeus Banks

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Source, in full

"What I Live For", st. 5. First appeared in the Family Herald. Later published in Peals from the Belfry (London: Hope & Co., 1853), p. 30, and in Daisies in the Grass (London: Robert Hardwicke, 1865), p. 23. Misquoted by E. R. Norris Matthews in Notes and Queries, ser. 6, vol. 11, no. 273 (21 March 1885), pp. 229; correct version quoted and attributed by the author's widow, ser. 6, vol. 11, no. 274 (11 Apr. 1885), p. 299 (but with 'For' om. in l. 2)

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