“TO KNOW ALL IS TO FORGIVE ALL”
It is not what one can get out of work, but what he may put in, that is the test of success.—Lilian Whiting.
If I knew you and you knew me—
If both of us could clearly see,
And with an inner sight divine
The meaning of your heart and mine,
I’m sure that we would differ less
And clasp our hands in friendliness;
Our thoughts would pleasantly agree
If I knew you and you knew me.
If I knew you and you knew me,
As each one knows his own self, we
Could look each other in the face
And see therein a truer grace.
Life has so many hidden woes,
So many thorns for every rose;
The “why” of things our hearts would see,
If I knew you and you knew me.
There is only one real failure in life possible; and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.—Canon Farrar.
“If a word will render a man happy,” said one of the French philosophers, “he must be a wretch, indeed, who will not give it. It is like lighting another man’s candle with your own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.” Another wise writer says: “Mirth is God’s medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety—all the rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.”
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.—Milton.
Orison Swett Marden, than whom no man’s golden words have done more to make the world brighter and better, says: “We should fight against every influence which tends to depress the mind, as we would against a temptation to crime. A depressed mind prevents the free action of the diaphragm and the expansion of the chest. It stops the secretions of the body, interferes with the circulation of the blood in the brain, and deranges the entire functions of the body.”
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.—Herbert Spencer.
“Do not anticipate trouble,” says Franklin, “or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Self-control, I say, is the root virtue of all virtues. It is at the very center of character.—King.
One of our present day apostles of the gospel of cheerfulness tells us that worry is a disease. “Some people ought to be incarcerated for disturbing the family peace, and for troubling the public welfare, on the charge of intolerable fretfulness and touchiness.”
The boy whom the world wants will be wise, indeed, if he includes in his preparations for meeting the years that are before him—
In the long run a man becomes what he purposes, and gains for himself what he really desires.—Mabie.