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Learn to say kind thiinr about people.
It will help you wonderfully.
You can't be mean and happy any more
than an apple can be sour and sweet.
T)e first thinie to do if yn have not
done it is to fall in love wiih your work.
Napoleon said that success depends up
on three things, enerjry, system and per
severance. No success is Worthy of the no me unless
it is won by honest industry and a brave
breasting of the waves of fortune.
"If one is to-day more" patient, more
serene, more loving, more sympathetic
than ne was yesterday he is truly advanc
ing and his life is successful."
SpeaKing of worrying, which kills more
people than disease, keep a record for a
month, and if you do. not worry over a
great many things ihat turn out alright.
Do not be downcast at your continual
trials and struggles. Rather take thm as
a matter of course. Regard them as dents
on the shield of a eoldier who has been
fighting all day to maintain bis ground.
If we thought more of our real duty to
add our quota to the sunshine of life, not
only by trying to be happy ourselves, but
also by doing our best to make others
happy, we would cast worry out of our
lives, hs we would endeavor to throw oft a
death-dealing desease.
A book Is a friend; a good book is a good
friend. It will talk to you when you want
it totalk and it will keep stilt when you
want it to keep still, and there are not
many friends who know enough for Ihat.
A libaary 1b a collection of friendB.
The thought of 1 he hllnew and import,
ance of life, the greatness of (he work one
ha i. do. to train oneself for immortality,
should cause him to blush for the time
lost, the energy waBted, in sighing and
groaiiingoverpin pricks, or in breaklngour
strength, like modern Don Quixotes,
analyst windmills.
"There are do times in life when Oppor
tunity, the chanoe to be and to do, gathers
more richly about the soul than when ft
has to sutler," says Phillips Brooks. Yet
la it not by triumphing over small things.
Die petty anxieties, "the cares that Infest
the dav," that one becomes poised, acquires
Btrength, and increases his capacity for
enduring with fortitude the greater triaU
and Borrows which enter into all lives?
Look In a mirror when you worry, and
see what a transformation your thought
has effected In your whole attitude. Look
at the dull eyes, the drooping mouth, the
knotted brow, the pained expression, the
dispirited bearing, and try to realize what
must be the lastingeffectofdaysand weeks
and years of such a tenor of thought as has
produced the physical chance reflected in
the glass before you. Think, too, of the
effect your gloomy appearance will havt'on
those associated with you, for sadness and
gloom are no lees contnginuB than are joy
and sunshine.
"ONE person may not succeed in dispell
ing all the miasma of the earth, " says Gull
Hamilton; "but, If he can only cleans
one little corner of it, If he can but send
through the murky air one cool, hracirR,
healthy sale, he will do much better than
tositnnder his" vine, appalled by tli
itreatneBs of the evil. Who is more likely
to do this tfcan the nan or woman whose
heart is so big, whose sympathies are Bo
generous, and whose love is so abounding
as to refuse to waste the energy that might
be used in generating world-sunshine in
elfish worrying over fancied personal ills,
or anticipating troubles that may never
come.