A-thinking thoughts to offer it.
“If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once,” says Penn, “thou wilt speak twice the better for it.”
It is this matter of thinking, of considering, of weighing one’s words and deeds that compels the moments, the days and the years to bring the success that some mistakenly think is only a matter of chance.
It is an uncontroverted truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.—Swift.
It is this habit of careful thinking that is going to make you remember that you owe it not only to yourself to make your life the truest success you can, but you owe it to your family, your friends, your enemies—if such you have—to the whole world with which you are in partnership, and to the stars above you.
The great successes of the world have been affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth trial.—John Morley.
But above all others there is one who, either in spirit or in her living presence, must ever and always be near to you, and for whose sake you will—God helping you!—stand up in your boots and be a man!
THE MOTHER’S DREAM
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.—Sydney Smith.
Boy, your mother’s dreaming; there’s a picture pure and bright