School Assignment

This is an assignment I just wrote for school in creative writing. First in this week I read:

The Manly Life
By Henry Van Dyke

Four things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true:
To think without confusion clearly;
To love his fellow men sincerely;
To act from honest motives purely;
To trust in God and Heaven securely.


I was told to write my thoughts about it. They gave me some other quotes:

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night and the day
Thou canst not be false to any man.
- Hamlet

I was also given:

You learn to speak by speaking, to study
by studying, to run by running, to work by working;
in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
- St. Francis De Sales

And so I wrote:

Both quotes, from Hamlet and St. Francis De Sales are similar to "The Manly Life." For example:
"This above all, to thine own self, be true"
Or
"Thou canst not be false to any man." -Hamlet
And
"in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." -St. Francis De Sales

They both make the same points and advice as in "The Manly Life."