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[Thoughts. 4]
Copyrighted, 1901,
by
JESSIE K. FREEMAN and SARAH S. B. YULE.
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art in life is to have as many of them as possible.
—Bovée.
To get peace, if you do want it, make for yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet knows, for none of us has been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts—proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure-houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us—houses built without hands for our souls to live in.
—Ruskin.