Therefore, courage is to be your chief asset; patience, pride, perseverance, your lieutenants.
Be not weary, grow not discouraged when your progress is hampered by obstacles. Every truly great man of the past has had his backbiters and detractors.
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There are three periods in our lives: the youthful, or prospective period, the adult, or introspective period, and the old age, or retrospective period.
Growing Old.
Too many there are who look forward to old age with fear or dread. But old age has its joys and pleasures as well as middle age and youth, and these pleasures are the keener if the first and second periods of life were lived sanely, worthily and properly. Numerous are the great men of the past who have extolled the old-age period of human life with its wisdom and wealth of worldly experience.
If the middle period is spent in getting dollars only, then old age will be days of empty nothingness.
Youth is the planning time—the time for ideals and ambitions; middle age the building time, and old age the dividend time.
With many, old age is spent in reading the book of the past—with sadness as the reader recognizes that the ideals, plans and hopes were shattered. As age turns the page in the book of the past, he reads one hope after another vanished in smoke.