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 THOUGHT 
 and VERSE 
 
 Jlrthur G. Lewis. 
 
 THE (BOHEMIAN SOCIETY. 
 
 Norfolk. Va. 
 
 Price $1.00, Postpaid. 
 


 Copyright, 
 
 1909, 
 
 BY 
 
 
 Arthur G. 
 
 Lewis. 
 
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 .A252793 
 
THE only woman absolutely neces- 
 sary to a man's happiness is the 
 one who helps him in the realization 
 of his ambition. 
 
 Oh God of Grace, spare us the Gold- 
 en Rule, when fate demands we tutor 
 to a fool. 
 
 It is far better sometimes that we 
 should heal with lies than wound with 
 truth. 
 
 The composite parts of ideal love 
 consist of about nine-tenths of unself- 
 ishness and one-tenth of faith. 
 
 Too many of us wear the bouquet of 
 life until it fades, and then lay the dead 
 flowers before the altar of Heaven. 
 
 There is an abundance of gentility 
 answering the call-bells of stolen pros- 
 perity. 
 
 Vanity out-lives every other emotion 
 and kills in its life many more valuable 
 traits of character. 
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 MANY mothers instruct their 
 daughters to disregard apparent 
 duties, and then breathe prayers in 
 gilded churches asking God to stand 
 between their advice and its result. 
 
 Men can only make a position out of 
 their job after ability has established 
 them in it as a necessary fixture. 
 
 There is no balm on earth, or in 
 Heaven, for those who sigh and nurse 
 their self-made wounds. 
 
 Real refinement is the result of sev- 
 eral generations of self-sacrifice laid 
 upon the altar of integrity. 
 
 "If consistency is a jewel," what 
 a rare gem it must have become. 
 
 Some of us lose in the possession of 
 affection that which we most worked 
 for in its anticipation. 
 
 Stolen silks upon the polluted bodies 
 of social parasites blush before the hon- 
 est linen of good birth and earnest ef- 
 fort. 
 
 When one fool asks another fool's 
 advice we are liable to hear of a twin 
 disaster in ideas. 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 To nurse a mental wound does about 
 as much good as to imitate a physical 
 one. 
 
 ^» 10* %&& 
 
 THAT LITTLE MOTHER OF 
 OURS. 
 
 That dear little unselfish mother of 
 ours, 
 No other her sweetness and virtue 
 possess, 
 
 The kisses she gave us in childhood's 
 bright hours 
 Still breathe benediction with every 
 caress. 
 
 She guided the way from our earliest 
 care, 
 While teaching the mystery of Hea- 
 ven and prayer, 
 
 And found in her love some faith-lead- 
 ing way, 
 
 Through nighttime and fear, to the 
 dawning of day. 
 
 In the hour of temptation her memory 
 has been 
 The one light that led through the 
 highway of sin, 
 
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 And for things that we did, which had 
 never been done, 
 Had we not remembered that we 
 were her son. 
 To her be the honor, the love and the 
 light, 
 That fashioned our pathyway to ef- 
 fort and right. 
 God grant the pure laurels of glory she 
 wears, . 
 That dear little unselfish mother of 
 
 ours. 
 
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 ANY fool can locate a fault, but it 
 takes a man to recognize a 
 virtue. 
 
 Fear is the peg on which too many 
 of us hang our tattered rags of faith. 
 
 Perseverance is the greatest neces- 
 sity in life's work and sincerity its 
 noblest virtue. 
 
 The fruit of thought will ripen only 
 upon the bough of research and inves- 
 tigation. 
 
 Physical virtue is but the ethical 
 condition which mental purity holds 
 under control. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 Elevate your heels on the table of 
 your work and think out things in your 
 own way. 
 
 It is but seldom that ignorance ap- 
 preciates the efforts and good inten- 
 tions of intelligence. 
 
 Only from the sound brains of a 
 sane people can come the answer to 
 a questioning age. 
 
 If we were all capable and informed, 
 the man who knows he knows, would 
 lose his job. 
 
 We are too often governed in our 
 opinions by the prejudiced mood of an 
 impulsive moment. 
 
 l£& t^* <(?* 
 
 Y. O. U. 
 
 Dearest, sweetest, gentlest, best — 
 All that's noble, pure and true, 
 
 Proven strong by every test, 
 Greatest joy I ever knew — 
 
 Y. O. U. 
 
 Leading me through nights of pain, 
 To the dawn of hope again, 
 God-kissed blessing from above, 
 All, and everything I love — 
 
 Y. O. U. 
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 REEP smiling. Cheerfulness has 
 found its way through many 
 darkened paths in which despair was 
 lost. 
 
 Envy is a microbe that thrives in 
 the heart of success which our small 
 natures are incapable of reaching. 
 
 There are but few problems of fate 
 too difficult to solve, provided we be- 
 gin right and work hard enough. 
 
 The highest order of love is that un- 
 selfish friendship or affection which can 
 only receive as its compensation a reci- 
 procated devotion. 
 
 One lie may conceal a truth, but 
 many untruths will often disclose a 
 fact. 
 
 Doubts are the children that cling 
 to the skirts of Courage and Confi- 
 dence. 
 
 Don't go around the world looking 
 for chips to knock off your own shoul- 
 ders. 
 
 How many of us never find out what 
 we really want until it is hopelessly 
 lost to us forever ! 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 BUILD all the air castles your 
 fancy craves, then turn your 
 back on the ruins as they fall. 
 
 If a fellow can manage somehow to 
 compass a large hope his fears are al- 
 ways within control. 
 
 Life is so short and death so long. 
 Brace up, keep smiling and burn the 
 bridges behind you! 
 
 Silence too often spells indifference 
 or neglect, and forgetfulness is merely 
 a convenient form of selfishness. 
 
 Is it the mother in woman's love or 
 the child in man's nature that makes 
 them so necessary each to the other? 
 
 There is only one woman in the 
 whole world — the one that you and I 
 have found absolutely necessary to us. 
 
 The desolate silence of indifference 
 and neglect reaches its millenium of 
 disappointment in the night of neces- 
 sity. 
 
 The only true diagnosis of absolute 
 love is proved by the God-touched test 
 of self-sacrifice and unselfish devotion. 
 
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 WE learn a new lesson of the 
 beauty of sunshine after be- 
 ing bound within the shadows and 
 away from Nature for a time. 
 
 We never know the worst side of a 
 man until he has been driven into a 
 corner by the weakness of his self- 
 constructed position. 
 
 Children show us what life should 
 be; we teach them what life is. 
 
 A man is always a man; a woman 
 frequently only what a man makes her. 
 
 Bringing sunshine into the lives of 
 others drives away clouds from our 
 own. 
 
 An ounce of unsolicited kindness 
 weighs more than a pound of requested 
 favors. 
 
 Living down a past is generally a 
 more difficult task than the building up 
 of a future. 
 
 A man without conscience is, gener- 
 ally, devoid of courage and sense of 
 justice. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 If our best intentions become ac- 
 tions, remorse would become an un- 
 known quantity. 
 
 Before we attempt to criticise our 
 superiors we should first endeavor to 
 become their peer. 
 
 Charity tied to a string of self-grati- 
 fication is only distantly related to 
 genuine generosity. 
 
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 THOUGHT. 
 
 Thought is the cornerstone of every 
 structural thing, 
 The faithful father of each substance 
 true, 
 Without it reason has no earnest ring, 
 And new accomplishments are rare 
 and few. 
 
 Thought is the infant dawn of each 
 new day, 
 A mighty power unknown in its 
 worth, 
 Its true conception for a time con- 
 cealed, 
 Yet governs all important work on 
 earth. 
 
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 WHAT many men call friendship 
 is often nothing but a selfish 
 absorption upon honest regard. 
 
 There is no nature so degenerate but 
 what suffers occasionally from spas- 
 modic sensations of remorse. 
 
 The man that clasps duty firmly 
 with one hand as a rule holds achieve- 
 ment confidently in the other. 
 
 What we have done in the past 
 may, perhaps, be forgotten for the sake 
 of what we will do in the future. 
 
 What might have been never hurts 
 so much as when brought face to face 
 with what may never be again. 
 
 Those who are too weak to accept 
 rational criticism gracefully are, as a 
 rule, most susceptible to flattery. 
 
 Anticipation acts as a magnifying 
 glass to realization, and long pursuit is 
 too often followed by short possession. 
 
 In order to protect commonplace ap- 
 pearance, how much comfort is sacri- 
 ficed upon the altar of public opinion? 
 10 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 IF you want to test the sincerity and 
 loyalty of a woman's affection, en- 
 deavor to have her associate with your 
 enemies. 
 
 The admission that we are some- 
 times wrong is an honest, manly way 
 of establishing the fact that we are fre- 
 quently right. 
 
 I have more respect for a man who 
 believes what he does not practice than 
 for one who practices what he does 
 not believe. 
 
 It is far better to ride a hobby than 
 to nurse a misfortune. 
 
 Every dog must have his bone. Don't 
 disturb him — get one for yourself. 
 
 Truth may be as violently violated 
 by silence as by expressed falsehood. 
 
 It is but a dirty dishonesty that takes 
 refuge behind a temporary advantage. 
 
 Without self-restraint we drift help- 
 lessly and hopelessly upon the tide of 
 impulse. 
 
 Most of the power we possess comes 
 from the love we hold, or have lost and 
 remember. 
 
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 IT is not enough that we be simply 
 consistent, but earnestly true to 
 our convictions. 
 
 Loneliness builds a wall of self-isola- 
 tion around us that only companion- 
 ship can scale. 
 
 Only that love which we fear to lose 
 faithfully represents the affection that 
 we hope to retain. 
 
 Some of us attempt to cover with an 
 exhibition of temper the weakness of 
 our pacific position. 
 
 The right way to measure a man is 
 around the heart first, thence through 
 sincerity to judgment. 
 
 When we face the exception of fame 
 the rule of obscurity ostracizes a con- 
 dition it cannot reach. 
 
 Opportunity consists only of that 
 condition which we take advantage of 
 or neglect to recognize. 
 
 Individuality is the wall that bars 
 out a man from his fellows and sepa- 
 rates him from the sympathy of being 
 understood. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 Little things are the tools upon 
 which the foundation of great things 
 are laid. 
 
 The best lesson of life we ever learn 
 is that one which teaches us our limited 
 capacity. 
 
 Irrational ambition drags more of its 
 disciples down than it uplifts to reali- 
 zation. 
 
 The real policy of economy is only 
 found through a well-balanced system 
 of expenditure. 
 
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 A TOAST. 
 
 Here's to the friends we have loved and 
 known, 
 
 In the dear old days that have passed 
 away ; 
 
 And, here's to the flowers that have 
 lived and blown, 
 
 Yet now bloom again in new life to- 
 day. 
 
 God bless the memories of other day, 
 
 May the merciful head of Heaven bend 
 
 Towards all those whom the years have 
 tried, 
 
 And proved the friendship of our 
 friends. 
 
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 IT takes what the world calls a good 
 fellow to set what the church 
 terms a bad example. 
 
 All permanent things are founded 
 upon reciprocity, and survive only up- 
 on that condition. 
 
 It is that fearful sense of separation 
 from hope, belief and faith that holds 
 us down at times. 
 
 To be misunderstood by others is a 
 misfortune, but to misunderstand cur- 
 selves is a calamity. 
 
 Real, unadulterated admiration and 
 faith live only in the heart of a child 
 and in the eyes of a dog. 
 
 Let us forget those things that were 
 left undone and remember only what 
 yet may be accomplished. 
 
 We cannot audit or locate the rev- 
 enue that is lost through unsound and 
 inconsistent business methods. 
 
 Loyalty and enthusiasm pay the ad- 
 ditional wages that are earned by undi- 
 vided effort and thought. 
 14 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 If you wish to be miserable wrap 
 yourself up in yourself and memorize 
 all the misfortunes that pessimism sug- 
 gests. 
 
 We should try and make the world 
 better, not by taking something bad out 
 of it, but by adding something good to 
 what is here. 
 
 There is no normal man without a 
 purpose. 
 
 Real love knows no law save that of 
 self-sacrifice. 
 
 Wounded self-esteem seldom heals 
 without a scar. 
 
 <£» <£& »£• 
 
 INGRATITUDE. 
 
 It is not the price of the sacrifice, 
 Or the stamp of its market worth; 
 It is not the sleep-breaking fear that 
 wounds 
 Or the desolate silence that hurts. 
 It is learning to know, as our empty 
 heart 
 Is aching for one caress, 
 That no one seems to understand 
 And everyone cares the less. 
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 FAITH is the fiction upon which 
 the plot of fact is laid out. 
 
 It is better to have one woman be- 
 lieve in you than to believe in all wom- 
 en. 
 
 The best part of man does not exist 
 beyond the circle of woman's influence. 
 
 Love is the only weapon in the world 
 that we can fight the world with and 
 win. 
 
 Nothing develops character more 
 than a faithfully followed sense of re- 
 sponsibility. 
 
 Marriage with the average man is a 
 romance, and with the average woman 
 a refuge. 
 
 The average woman cannot afford to 
 be frank in regard to herself. Don't 
 expect her to be. 
 
 The touch of tenderness has broken 
 down more barriers than the strength 
 of power has upbuilt. 
 
 Many of us establish for ourselves a 
 code of ethics based on individual, ra- 
 ther than general, accepted conditions. 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 Fools are excellent mimics in the 
 short-comings of their superiors. It is 
 sympathy, not censure, that helps us to 
 forget our ills and renew our efforts. 
 
 A PRAYER. 
 Oh, God of Reason, live thou with me 
 
 yet, 
 Lest in this darkness I may now forget 
 The way to turn, the path that I should 
 
 tread, 
 And find the way of selfishness instead, 
 Or learn the weight of all my life's re- 
 gret! 
 Oh, God of Reason, live thou with me 
 yet! 
 
 I've hoped, and prayed, for counsel 
 
 through the night, 
 Some hand to light and guide me in the 
 
 right; 
 Thy name is love, and in that name I 
 
 pray. 
 Show me, oh God, the right and honest 
 
 way, 
 I still remember, and would not now 
 
 forget ! 
 Oh, God of Reason, live thou with me 
 
 yet! 
 
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 THE haunting spirit of discontent 
 stands in its own sunshine and 
 creates its own shadow. 
 
 Decency cannot afford to kick ont 
 of its path the filthy cur of prejudice 
 and untruth. 
 
 Habits are at first the cobwebs of 
 environment, and at last the chains of 
 servitude. 
 
 It is often easier to obtain forgive- 
 ness from others than to consistently 
 grant self-absolution. 
 
 He who knows nothing can doubt 
 nothing; but it is often the ignorance 
 that hurts. 
 
 The essentials of modern intellectual 
 development consist of brevity and di- 
 rectness in all things. 
 
 The executive spirit of self-control 
 is the first lesson that real leadership 
 must learn and recognize. 
 
 There are many of us who dare in- 
 flict a wound, but yet lack sufficient 
 moral courage to face its scar. 
 
 The rolling stone of experience 
 gathers the valued moss that grows 
 only on the surface of the best policy. 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 THERE are so many shadows in 
 the world; let each of us con- 
 sider it our life duty to drive just one 
 away. 
 
 Happiness is a beautiful picture of 
 anticipated fancy and is found only in 
 the arms of realized devotion. 
 
 The most cowardly of all human 
 weaknesses is to permit others to suf- 
 fer for faults that belong to ourselves. 
 
 ; Enmity stands sponsor at the bap- 
 tism of friendship. 
 
 There is only one love and that one 
 knows no self. 
 
 It is only after we have lost all faith 
 in all things that hope dies. 
 
 When dogs bark, the answering call 
 comes only from another of their kind. 
 
 The most venomous of all lies are 
 those breathed from lips we have 
 kissed. 
 
 There are kind ways of doing un- 
 kind things, and merciful paths on the 
 way of justice. 
 
 Nature demands full toll to-morrow 
 for every step we take to-day on her 
 prohibited paths. 
 
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 LITTLE matters of neglect are the 
 infant conditions of large ques- 
 tions of loss and expense. 
 
 The greatest and best incentive to 
 noble action is laid before the shrine of 
 unselfish devotion. 
 
 Adverse and unjust criticism is fre- 
 quently only a lie that one fool creates 
 and all fools believe. 
 
 The great concentrated forces of 
 thought and action can only reach their 
 real value when combined. 
 
 Any sentiment-cursed fool can make 
 a good resolution, but it takes a man 
 to pay his notes of indiscretion with- 
 out protest. 
 
 The world regards weakness as a 
 crime, yet self-made strength is seldom 
 considered more than an incident of 
 fate. 
 
 Self-repression is the hardest lesson 
 that logic has to learn. 
 
 Every successful effort must bear the 
 indelible stamp of purpose. 
 
 What a terrible price we sometimes 
 pay for the supremacy of self-respect! 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 YOURS, AS IN OTHER DAYS. 
 Yours, as in other days, now and for- 
 
 evermore, 
 Before the clouds of doubt and fear 
 
 appeared ; 
 Yours, as in other days, now and for- 
 
 evermore, 
 In memory's sacred, happier, brighter 
 
 years ; 
 Before the springtime bud of hope had 
 
 blown 
 And broke its petals on the path of 
 
 faith; 
 Before our full, sweet flower of love 
 
 was known, 
 And resignation taught us how to hope 
 
 and wait. 
 
 Yours, as in other days, now and for- 
 evermi le, 
 
 Before the glorious summer of thy 
 devotion 
 
 Had turned my heart towards the dawn 
 again, 
 
 Where, on the horizon of Fate's relent- 
 less ocean, 
 
 I, with you, read the writing of despair 
 and pain — 
 
 God's verdict and the world's, upon 
 the wall ; 
 
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 Yet stand we with outstretched hands 
 
 beside the shore, 
 Yours, as in other days, now and for- 
 
 evermore. 
 
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 LIFE is the mother that nourishes 
 the mortality of to-day into the 
 eternity of to-morrow. 
 
 Every association worth possession 
 is that of work or love, and either are 
 worth living for. 
 
 A sense of duty and pride is often 
 stronger than a realization of right — 
 hence the consequences. 
 
 The law of influence makes us what 
 we are, whether we control ourselves 
 or allow others to do so. 
 
 The only castles of life that stand 
 the storms are those built on a founda- 
 tion of love and contentment. 
 
 The tide has gone out burdened with 
 our good intentions, and will return 
 to-morrow for more. 
 
 At least one-half of the adverse crit- 
 icism we hear is untrue, and the re- 
 mainder frequently unjust. 
 22 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 THE first requisite and only ex- 
 tenuating circumstance of indis- 
 cretion is that we shall be discreetly 
 indiscreet. 
 
 A Christian is anyone who can and 
 will, through self-sacrifice, make some- 
 one or something better than it was 
 before. 
 
 Intelligence is frequently nursed into 
 genius at the breast of Necessity. 
 
 Love is the cream that rises to the 
 surface on the milk of human kindness. 
 
 The only remedy for a plague of pes- 
 simism is the antitoxin of optimistic 
 faith. 
 
 Absolute happiness dies in the arms 
 of absolute loyalty to duty and con- 
 science. 
 
 No honest man will receive in silence 
 a recognized correction of his own mis- 
 take. 
 
 When will the average woman learn 
 that censure but adds fuel to the flame 
 of fault? 
 
 There is often an impassive agent of 
 Providence concealed in our first im- 
 pulse to do right. 
 
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 WHENEVER a man denies labor 
 as a law he must be prepared 
 to receive it as a penance. 
 
 Misfortune is always for those who 
 anticipate it by the abandonment of 
 proper effort. 
 
 Only the best we can do is good 
 enough to satisfy the honest purpose of 
 earnest effort. 
 
 Intelligence receives suggestion with 
 appreciation; ignorance damns it with 
 envious construction. 
 
 The church offers forgiveness for sin ; 
 education and science extend a preven- 
 tive of wrong doing. 
 
 No man is entirely his own master, 
 yet he may master himself by respect- 
 ing the conditions that control him. 
 
 It requires more strength of char- 
 acter to clean up a soiled reputation 
 than to keep one free from contamina- 
 tion. 
 
 How prone some of us are to blame 
 others for falling over the obstacles 
 that we located only through their 
 misfortune. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 DISCONTENT is a fearful condi- 
 tion of unrest, yet it is often an 
 incentive to renewed effort and the in- 
 fant state of result. 
 
 A surface disregard of sentiment 
 often only indicates a lack of sincerity. 
 
 The scorn of many is frequently out- 
 weighed by the admiration of a few. 
 
 Some men incapable of entering the 
 field of creative art, attempt to break 
 down in their ignorance, structures 
 that they lack sufficient brains to con- 
 ceive. 
 
 Usually an apology is inferior to a 
 fault, especially if the former is ex- 
 pressed under pressure and the latter 
 premeditated. 
 
 One of the most difficult obstables 
 to overcome in business and social in- 
 tercourse is the man who is ignorant 
 of his ignorance. 
 
 More anger is created in the minds 
 of fools by the success of others than 
 sympathy for misfortune in the hearts 
 of men. 
 
 The ideas of others are most intelli- 
 gently served in their original pack- 
 ages, and from a primary source. 
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 £"|OME men are as susceptible to 
 WJ? kindness and consideration as a 
 child, yet too often such dispositions 
 are most frequently misunderstood. 
 
 Where shall we draw the line be- 
 tween forgetfulness and neglect? 
 
 Criminal carelessness and dishonesty 
 are too close together to equitably 
 separate. 
 
 Home life and the love that binds us 
 to that shrine, sv/ays the greatest gen- 
 eral influence in the world. 
 
 Many people who are first to say of 
 a dear friend, "He was a good fellow,'* 
 were the last to find a worthy feature 
 in the living character. 
 
 The absolute negative of common 
 sense is represented by willful and self- 
 obstructed ignorance. 
 
 Small men in large positions curb the 
 views of others with their own. 
 
 Friendship whispers in confidence 
 many things that justice asserts should 
 be openly demonstrated. 
 
 How much common weal is sacrificed 
 upon the altar of selfish individualism. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 Many of us lack sufficient sight to 
 see both sides of an argument, object 
 or purpose. 
 
 It is always necessary to sacrifice 
 something to honesty and better to sur- 
 render our opinion than self respect. 
 
 A great injustice is often done ability 
 by its confinement to a condition which 
 affords no scope for development. 
 
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 A TOAST. 
 
 Here's to the man of weight and worth, 
 That lives in the lives of others, 
 Broad and strong in heart and girth 
 And true to the weal of his brothers; 
 That yields a line of knowledge tried, 
 Free from all taunt and pain, 
 And never bars the brightness out 
 From the shade of Effort's lane. 
 
 Here's to the man that dares to tell 
 The truth in the face of fear, 
 And hopes for heaven, yet finds no hell 
 In the dread of approaching years ; 
 And draws no curtain before the fact, 
 Of his knowledge of men and things, 
 But leads the faltering pilgrim back 
 With the love that charity brings. 
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 AN assertion above criticism is as 
 a rule an idea without worth. 
 
 The only extenuating condition of 
 untried strength is weakness. 
 
 In the house of discord, silence is the 
 only word that spells peace. 
 
 The greatest evidence of real 
 strength is to learn how to restrain it. 
 
 There is no limit of value to the 
 chain letter of courteous consideration. 
 
 Unselfish love will find many white 
 spots upon the dark surface of fault. 
 
 Let us all attend the funeral of ill 
 nature toward all mankind, and bury 
 it deep. 
 
 It is the waste energy of care that 
 draws so heavily from the strength of 
 hope. 
 
 Real life consists of contact with live 
 things, God's nature, and a love of 
 them all. 
 
 Experience of any kind, and of every 
 description, is the only true developer 
 of life. 
 
 Talent develops itself in thought and 
 research ; he who abandons either aban- 
 dons all. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 THE best test of manhood is an in- 
 dividual one, and can only be 
 illustrated by our own character. 
 
 Envy and suspicion against our fel- 
 lows is frequently indicated by the 
 weakness of our own character. 
 
 Let us look the facts of the world in 
 the face to-day and forget the fiction 
 of yesterday's mistakes. 
 
 Reticence and stupidity may repre- 
 sent nothing but the undeveloped re- 
 verse, and should excite nothing but 
 sympathy. 
 
 A service system that rewards ability 
 only with the occupation of dead men's 
 shoes is confronted with a grave ques- 
 tion. 
 
 Too many of us measure immorality 
 by its consequences, and prefer to re- 
 pent a wrong rather than avoid its 
 commission. 
 
 Remember that the tide of happiness 
 and self respect is drawn just this side 
 of the line that divides income from 
 expenditure. 
 
 As conditions change with age and 
 experience, temptation errors lessen 
 with the years. 
 
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 THERE should be no friendship in 
 business beyond the line of 
 duty — yet how hard it is to draw the 
 line. 
 
 Genius often lies starving at the gate 
 of crime, and ignorance laughs while 
 knowledge sighs. 
 
 The evasion of a fault does not cor- 
 rect it or the diagnosis of a disease 
 effect a cure. 
 
 How many wives are at the seashore 
 of neglect this summer? 
 
 We cannot dictate an immutable law 
 of morals. Such things are, and must 
 be governed by personal views and en- 
 vironments. 
 
 Small prejudices often find expres- 
 sion in small natures. 
 
 No man is entitled to the considera- 
 tion of gentlemen, who fails to respect 
 their good opinion, by the neglect of 
 respect for himself. 
 
 The flower of passion, soon crushed 
 in the hand of time, leaves love alone 
 save to lean upon the friendship and 
 memory of the dead bloom. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 OFTEN our strength is best dem- 
 onstrated by allowing those 
 who wish for our weakness to believe 
 it exists. 
 
 The facts of to-day help us to form 
 a foundation for the fiction of to- 
 morrow. 
 
 Some of the good things we do are 
 often undone by the bad things we 
 say. 
 
 The extravagance of the present too 
 often becomes a necessity of the future. 
 
 We only weaken the strength of 
 right, by removing the temptations of 
 wrong. 
 
 No man knows the extent of his abil- 
 ity until he has failed in an attempt 
 to realize it. 
 
 The little lights that go out when 
 faith is questioned never shine quite 
 as bright again when the tide of ex- 
 planation returns. 
 
 There is no antidote known to the 
 scince of philosophy that will entirely 
 counteract the poison of prejudiced 
 insinuation. 
 
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 THE definition of dishonesty in- 
 cludes the disregard of interests 
 that we are paid to protect. 
 
 Who is there among us that does not 
 associate his best impulses with the 
 touch of a woman's hand. 
 
 The gentleness of woman's charac- 
 ter is best brought out by the environ- 
 ment of man's brutality. 
 
 Sometimes amid the rags of a beg- 
 gared reputation may be found a jewel 
 too valuable for surface critics to have 
 suspected its existence. 
 
 An uncertain amount of vice is a 
 necessary ingredient to a certain 
 amount of virtue. 
 
 Genius is never intelligently opera- 
 tive unless accompanied by sufficient 
 audacity of purpose to offset the op- 
 posing force of ignorance. 
 
 Do not make a woman your con- 
 fessor, she will not believe you have 
 told her all the truth. 
 
 In the depths of the best part of 
 human nature there are many virtues 
 that never rise to the surface. 
 32 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 If we must be indiscreet, let indiscre- 
 tion be tempered with judgment. 
 
 The constitution existing between 
 friends should be subject to any amend- 
 ment that necessity suggests. 
 
 Still reaching out beyond from what 
 we have, we tear and hurt our hands 
 upon ambition's thorns. 
 
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 RESIGNATION. 
 
 On the line of all our efforts 
 
 Bloom the sacred flowers of memory, 
 
 Sweet and pure in retrospection 
 
 As a child's prayer at a shrine. 
 
 It is then that we remember 
 
 Which was wrong and what is right, 
 
 As a dying sun surrenders 
 
 To the heritage of night. 
 
 So we live in recollection 
 In the garden of our love, 
 Where the red rose of affection 
 Broke the first leaves of its bud. 
 As we saw it bloom in fragrance 
 In the spring-time of its youth, 
 May our hopes find resignation 
 In a memory for the truth. 
 
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 BABY talk ties more men to their 
 homes and duty than pulpit elo- 
 quence sways to effort. 
 
 Between the drifting of the clouds of 
 life, in hopeful eyes may always be ob- 
 served a strip of heaven's clear blue 
 horizon, proving that the sun still 
 shines beyond. 
 
 Some weaknesses are indirect evi- 
 dence of strength in our ability to over- 
 come them. 
 
 The dignity and tenderness of 
 motherhood brings out the sweetest, 
 gentlest sentiment in womankind. 
 
 Some men fail in their efforts to suc- 
 ceed on account of their ambitions ex- 
 ceeding the ability to accomplish. 
 
 May the head of heaven turn in ten- 
 derness towards the woman who can 
 find nothing to admire in her husband. 
 
 The lights are not always out ; mem- 
 ory sometimes like a lightning flash 
 out of the past, sheds a glare of truth 
 upon the present, then leaves us hope- 
 less and alone again. 
 34 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 TO tell a lie gracefully in a spirit of 
 mercy, is often more humane 
 than the plain brutal truth. 
 
 Among the everlasting flowers of 
 love none bloom more fragrant than the 
 rose of faith. 
 
 The smooth fat face of those who 
 never think, has consolation in the ab- 
 sence of the lines of care that mark 
 their way beneath the eyes of thought. 
 
 The intelligent co-operation of sub- 
 ordinates in business management, 
 paves the way to knowledge, power 
 and promotion. 
 
 Labor has compensation in a duty 
 done, and all the sweet sensation of 
 rewarded rest. 
 
 There is no honesty in an ambition 
 that would lift up one side of human 
 nature and drag down the other. 
 
 Judicious expenditure is the father 
 of rational and well conceived economy. 
 
 Widows are attractive on account of 
 experience having taught them the art 
 of advantageous concealment. 
 
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 IF hell is conscience, all its tortures 
 tear the wakening sleeper in in- 
 somnia's toils between the awakening 
 moment and the dawn of day. 
 
 How man's opinion withers before 
 a woman's will — or won't. 
 
 Among the numerous counterfeits of 
 friendship there comes sometimes a 
 sincere devotion that sustains and 
 lightens the lives of both. 
 
 A man may have a good opinion of 
 himself, but should not permit his self- 
 conscious condition to break out. 
 
 It is a questionable kind of economy 
 that will create a shrinkage on both 
 sides of the ledger. 
 
 The nakedness of truth often calls a 
 blush to the face of fact. 
 
 One of the consolations of old age is 
 to follow one's inclinations without the 
 dangers of youth's impetuous indiscre- 
 tions. 
 
 Often when a man says nothing he 
 sense to express himself. 
 36 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 HOW many sacrifices of life and 
 happiness are laid upon the al- 
 tar of apperance. 
 
 No man ever yet swaggered into a 
 permanent and successful position in 
 life. 
 
 How sweet the consolation and 
 knowledge that one heart beats for us 
 alone, and though in silence, knows no 
 life beyond the circle of its love. 
 
 A beautiful thought and noble ac- 
 tion out-values all the utilities of a 
 beautiful world. 
 
 What woman do not wear attract 
 men the most, but outward adornment 
 in men often sways women. 
 
 There are some natures that can only 
 meet each other after the manner of 
 cymbals. May the milk-white dove of 
 peace keep them apart. 
 
 The soft white hands of women 
 smooth out with love and sacrifice the 
 lines of care along the pathway that 
 duty and integrity tread. 
 
 It is better to spare pain by telling a 
 lie than to cause it by a truth un- 
 touched with mercy. 
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 SMALL men in large positions are 
 constrained to force their efforts 
 out of proportion to their ability. 
 
 Those who possess the courage of 
 their own convictions must be prepared 
 to overcome the prejudice of others 
 having no convictions to possess. 
 
 Let us not starve upon the disap- 
 pointment of yesterday, but strive to 
 nourish ourselves with the hope of to- 
 morrow. 
 
 In the little hearts of children alone 
 lives the sweet secret of contented 
 peace. 
 
 There is no line in the license of 
 matrimony that permits censure. 
 
 Let us deal tenderly with those who 
 possess our own faults, and in the mir- 
 ror of another see and correct the dis- 
 torted image of ourselves. 
 
 The generosity of some people is 
 often largely regulated by the liber- 
 ality of others. 
 
 It is indicative of strength to pos- 
 sess power, but an illustration of weak- 
 ness to lose it. 
 
 38 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 OVE learns the best lesson of love 
 from the hand of friendship. 
 
 Only those who pull against the 
 stream can feel and realize the great 
 strength of the opposite current. 
 
 The best possible illustration of con- 
 sistent economy is proven by the re- 
 sult of intelligent expenditure. 
 
 Love of all kinds, at all times, is 
 beautiful, but that tested by sin and 
 adversity is divine. 
 
 Small prejudices and small minds 
 are synonymous weaknesses of human 
 nature. 
 
 I never believed that humanity pos- 
 sessed a weakness of which its critic 
 was entirely innocent. 
 
 We all exaggerate more or less, and 
 only careful effort in this respect pre- 
 vents the development of a failure into 
 a fault. 
 
 The resolute enforcement and pro- 
 vision for to-raorrow should be con- 
 sidered equally essential with the 
 demands of to-day. 
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S tu b Ends of 
 
 SOME people are often suspicious 
 about those things which they 
 are unable to occomplish themselves. 
 
 Warmed-over love loses, in the pro- 
 cess of reformed conditions, all its 
 original flavor and most of its primary 
 sweetness. 
 
 The influence of perfect home-life 
 leads more converts to church than the 
 churches send penitents to firesides. 
 
 Gratitude and appreciation is fath- 
 ered by an instinct found in dogs, and 
 also in occasional rare specimens of 
 human life. 
 
 It is not what we have that we value 
 so much, but what we have lost, and 
 cannot find again. 
 
 There are no harbors on the sea of 
 life, for those who nurse or tremble at 
 every wave of pain. 
 
 A kiss may heal a thoughtless word, 
 but it often leaves a scar that cannot 
 be obliterated. 
 
 When a woman ceases to ask a man 
 how much he cares for her, it is gen- 
 erally an accurate indication that she 
 is not interested. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 Large minds are uninfluenced by the 
 petty prejudices of small ones. 
 
 "I can't" is frequently nothing but a 
 whine, a sign of weakness, and an evi- 
 dence of indolence. 
 
 Respectability is often only thor- 
 oughly appreciated and valued at its 
 real cost, after it has been lost and 
 found again. 
 
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 MOTHER. 
 
 In the great warm heart of the country, 
 
 In the soul of our sacred pride, 
 One memory lives forever; 
 
 And the warmth of our home fireside, 
 With loving retrospection 
 
 To the present comes again, 
 As a day of rest from sorrow 
 
 Oft follows a night of pain. 
 And tender recollections 
 
 Of the mother gone away, 
 Wears yesterday's laurels with honor 
 
 On the heart of our love to-day ; 
 As a kiss of a past devotion 
 
 Outlives what we fain forget, 
 And the breath of a rose, tho* broken, 
 
 Blooms sweet in our memory yet. 
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 THE love we create in the hearts 
 of others, lives after us, and of- 
 ten softens other lives toward their 
 fellows in pain. 
 
 Expressions of good intentions not- 
 withstanding, we are only indispens- 
 able in the place where we make 
 ourselves so. 
 
 The indication of real, earnest affec- 
 tion is not placidity; such a condition 
 is often brought about, however, by 
 resignation to unavoidable circum- 
 stances. 
 
 If we will study ourselves thoroughly 
 and form a correct diagnosis, based on 
 experience and research, we have, to 
 a large extent, secured a general im- 
 pression of all mankind. 
 
 Weak minds endeavor to enter into 
 an understanding with strength, and 
 effect such a compromise as will most 
 easy serve the object of their purpose. 
 
 What some people call bad luck is 
 really nothing more than ill judgment 
 and lack of self-confidence. 
 
 Grief is often only the night of to- 
 morrow's dawn; and to-day's failures 
 frequently the father of to-morrow's 
 success. 42 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 THE world, to a large extent, will 
 recognize a man at his own valu- 
 ation and personal estimate. 
 
 Honest and unselfish love finds its 
 sole compensation within the circle of 
 appreciation. 
 
 God help all the poor, little human 
 parasites that cling, without compen- 
 sation, like barnacles, upon the hull of 
 those who feel in honor bound to har- 
 bor and support them. 
 
 The butterfly of love may be short 
 lived, but what a beautiful creature it 
 is during its momentary existence upon 
 the rose of affection. 
 
 Those who really, earnestly and un- 
 selfishly love, never either doubt or 
 misunderstand one another. 
 
 Let us make, through ernest effort, 
 the best of to-day, and hope with con- 
 fidence for something better to- 
 morrow. 
 
 God is still God, just as the sun is 
 yet the sun, notwithstanding the clouds 
 that shadow it at times. 
 
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 A GOOD name is an ever ready 
 endorsement to-day for the se- 
 curity of to-morrow's payments, based 
 on yesterday's transactions. 
 
 The herald of hope will, with our 
 endeavor, always keep ahead of fear, 
 even though it may come quite close 
 at times. 
 
 Little minds note the small things 
 of life with prejudice; and overlook 
 larger matters beyond the circle of 
 their comprehension. 
 
 It is always well for safety's sake to 
 candle an egg to-day that was sus- 
 pected of being bad yesterday. 
 
 Incompetence always has to pay the 
 wages of superior ability that is em- 
 ployed to correct lack of sufficiency. 
 
 The best test of strength in a well 
 seasoned mind is the power to accept 
 and recognize an idea outside of our 
 own experience. 
 
 What others may think regarding 
 our actions should carry no weight be- 
 yond the extent of where we are 
 wrong. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 We must either bow gracefully to 
 and accept the superiority of intelli- 
 gence, or be prepared to receive the 
 sudden impact of its force. 
 
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 RETROSPECTION. 
 Away down, deep in our heart of 
 hearts, 
 Aprt from passion's transient fire, 
 Far from the highway of our sins 
 And the demons of our desire, 
 There lives a memory, sacred sweet 
 Through the faltering night of sor- 
 row, 
 That helps us hope with repentant 
 faith 
 For the glorious dawn of to-morrow. 
 
 And though like a mirage the hope 
 appears 
 In our desert of doubt and care, 
 We, nevertheless, will happier be, 
 Because we have seen it there. 
 For, like a rose that fades and dies, 
 
 In its budding youth too soon, 
 We may view the flower with tearful 
 eyes 
 In memory of its bloom. 
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 LET us throw out our sound-lines 
 frequently and endeavor as 
 often as possible to ascertain just 
 where we are. 
 
 How small large things appear some- 
 times, when viewed in the mirror of 
 prejudice, and through the eyes of 
 ignorance. 
 
 The flowers of passion cannot con- 
 sistently be pressed within the leaves 
 of memory. 
 
 Self-respect is the foundation upon 
 which self-confidence builds its struc- 
 tures. 
 
 The man who knows, and knows that 
 he knows, gages his own strength and 
 does not attempt to go beyond it. 
 
 When we start out with an object 
 in view we should always hold in re- 
 serve sufficient energy to walk back 
 again. 
 
 Many a hit dog stifles his cry, hop 
 ing to cover with the darkness of 
 silence the light of his guilt. 
 
 The efforts of experienced ability 
 directed before a tribunal of ignorance, 
 represents about as much waste energy 
 as the pleading of legal genius before 
 a deaf jury. 4 <5 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 Absolute loyalty is of more value 
 than absolute competency, as with the 
 former requisite, the latter deficiency 
 may be overcome. 
 
 If it takes fifty per cent, of devotion 
 to hold a sweetheart, the result 
 multiplied by two should retain a 
 husband. 
 
 Our enemies often probe below the 
 surface for our faults, while friendship 
 only governs itself by appearances as 
 regards our virtues. 
 
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 THE DREAMER. 
 Dream on and hope, there is no goal 
 to reach 
 Except the one we yet have failed 
 to find; 
 No object won, or castles quite com- 
 lete, 
 Beyond the mammoth structures of 
 the mind. 
 By looking high, we surely strike a 
 line 
 Beneath the circle of our lofty aim, 
 And finding effort courts accomplish- 
 ment, 
 Receive encouragement to aim again. 
 
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 THERE is no compensation in the 
 labor of love save that of grati- 
 tude. 
 
 It is not circumstances that make or 
 mar the home but the nature and tem- 
 perament of the people within it. 
 
 Patient endurance for right's sake 
 is God-like in its sacrifice of self. 
 
 An exhibition of too much confidence 
 in others indicates, to some extent, a 
 lack of that virtue in ourselves. 
 
 We can often acquire valuable 
 knowledge by the intelligent ob- 
 servance and study of the ways of 
 ignorance. 
 
 Home-making hearts are the lightest, 
 and fireside love is the sweetest and 
 purest thing in the world. 
 
 We are all made of the same ma- 
 terial; let us all endeavor then to 
 recognize and find the same excuses 
 for others that we find for ourselves. 
 
 There is a dramatic side to every 
 romance and sooner or later it must 
 be written. 
 
 Imitation is an evidence of esteem, 
 and unjust criticism an exhibition of 
 envy and dishonesty. 
 48 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 EVERY condition has its compen- 
 sation. There is even some con- 
 solation in not wanting that which we 
 are unable to procure. 
 
 We can build air castles so high in 
 our earnestness of to-day that they will 
 entirely obscure the ruins of yester- 
 day's hopes. 
 
 A man's expression of sentiment, if 
 in all sincere, means nothing more than 
 giving words to good thoughts. 
 
 There should be a premium placed 
 on all individual ability, and recogni- 
 tion of same beyond the pale of pre- 
 judice. 
 
 Anticipated failure shakes the plank 
 of opportunity that lies across the 
 stream of success. 
 
 Some men attempt to cover their 
 ignorance by an aggressive silence and 
 tacitly insult us by an offensive absence 
 of expressed opinion. 
 
 The shadows and lights of life come 
 and go just in accordance with the way 
 we turn towards them. 
 
 Strength is not proven by its test 
 with strength, but in its power to com- 
 bat with and overcome weakness. 
 
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 'EAR and imagination are the 
 cause of more unrest and unhap- 
 piness than the actual result of facts 
 and fate. 
 
 Logical loyalty consists of the pos- 
 session of sufficient moral courage to 
 hold and express an opinion, at vari- 
 ance, if necessary, with the views of 
 those we want to serve. 
 
 Deception in the face of generous 
 faith and confidence degrades none but 
 the one who deceives. 
 
 What many consider an excess of 
 pride is frequently only a lack of com- 
 mon sense. 
 
 Innocence need fear no doubt of be- 
 ing discovered, and guilt no hope 
 beyond that of ultimate punishment. 
 
 It is best to let others find out our 
 virtues, and keep within ourselves the 
 knowledge of any good we possess, as 
 a reserve fund to protect the maturity 
 of our faults. 
 
 If the week days of life are kept clean 
 God may find it easy to pardon the 
 shortcomings of our Sunday life. 
 50 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 THERE are two ways of proving a 
 lack of information, one is by 
 saying nothing and the other by say- 
 ing too much. 
 
 Under the wings of nobility in char- 
 acter the best part of love finds its 
 permanent refuge in consolation and 
 faith. 
 
 It is often necessary for us to sacri- 
 fice our individuality for the welfare 
 of others, if only to prove that general 
 opinion must rule even though it be 
 wrong. 
 
 Absolute faith in either God or man 
 is productive of absolute peace and 
 sense of security. 
 
 When we permit our money to in- 
 fluence our friends, we may expect 
 them to respond only to the source 
 from whence they came. 
 
 It is only after the line of happiness 
 has been broken, that we really know 
 and appreciate its value. 
 
 Every man should believe his wife 
 to be the purest and best woman on 
 earth; and every woman should con- 
 sider her husband superior to all other 
 men. 
 
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 LET us be as good as we can, and 
 the best part of others will meet 
 us in sympathy, and help us hold up 
 our standard. 
 
 There can be no real executive abil- 
 ity without the possession of that posi- 
 tive knowledge, which comes only after 
 earnest research and actual experience. 
 
 How many of us satisfy our own 
 sense of unselfishness, by the perform- 
 ance of those things that are easy, and 
 the discussion only of real self sacrifice. 
 
 Where is the line in reason drawn, 
 between the spirit of ambition and a 
 condition of discontent and unrest? 
 
 Cheerfulness is an antidote that over- 
 comes the microbes of morbid and 
 anticipated ills. 
 
 The man who knows how to obey 
 well, in matters he would learn, can 
 as a rule, order intelligently in the 
 things he knows. 
 
 The cross of to-day would be far 
 more light if it were not burdened with 
 yesterday's errors and regret. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 IT is unfortunate that but few women 
 realize the importance of showing 
 the best side of their character to their 
 husbands. 
 
 The faith we have is often, in many 
 ways, nothing more than well-devel- 
 oped hope, clearly defined and under- 
 stood. 
 
 When we do our best, we perform 
 our duty; without regard to the result 
 of our efforts. 
 
 Ordinary charity may relieve the 
 consequence of poverty; but real 
 philanthropy must deal with the cause 
 of existing conditions, and correct 
 them. 
 
 We may receive all we deserve; but 
 the estimate is generally made accord- 
 ing to the impulse and generosity of 
 those who pay out to us the rations 
 of appreciation. 
 
 There are some people whom we like, 
 but do not admire; and others we ad- 
 mire, but do not like; and how hard 
 it is to prove sincere in either condi- 
 tion. 
 
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 ENTHUSIASM is the engine that 
 drives our mental capacity to 
 effort; and directs our ability to re- 
 sults. 
 
 The labor of love is softened by a 
 sweet sense of unselfishness, which 
 comes with every earnest, happy effort 
 for those we care for. 
 
 The errors of conceit are responsible 
 for many failures, in which judgment 
 and reason have secured no representa- 
 tion. 
 
 One of the smallest sides of character 
 is illustrated by a disposition to im- 
 pose upon those who trust us; to the 
 extent of their confidence in our 
 sincerity. 
 
 There is no poverty so poor as that 
 condition which binds us to obscurity 
 and lack of equitable recognition. 
 
 If the same effort was made to hold 
 men to their home as is exercised to 
 take them away, there would not be 
 so many deserted firesides. 
 
 The value of intellectual character 
 must be estimated by the use to which 
 we place our power and exert our 
 efforts. 
 
 54 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 BRAVERY quite often exists under 
 the shadow of silence, and be- 
 neath the hood of unselfish discretion. 
 
 Opportunity stands ever ready to 
 clean the slate of to-day, and open a 
 new account based on the good prom- 
 ises and earnest intentions of to- 
 morrow. 
 
 It is generally safe to conclude that 
 a man unable to keep his own secret 
 is unsafe in the possession of yours. 
 
 Confidence builds the great struc- 
 tures of business purpose, and ability 
 holds them together. 
 
 There is really more pleasure in the 
 creation of happiness than to receive 
 it, but only those who have tried this 
 can know it to be true. 
 
 We should be slow to criticise a first 
 fault, for it is frequently nothing more 
 than an accident, for which ignorance 
 is responsible. 
 
 Regret is to repentance all that mem- 
 ory is to forgetfulness, and both must 
 live for the protection of each other. 
 
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 IT seems very dark sometimes just 
 before the daylight of what we 
 hope for, but let us look and work con- 
 stantly towards the dawn. 
 
 Folly is always by our side, but rea- 
 son only comes to us upon request. 
 
 The only excusable curiosity is that 
 one prompted by a desire to be in- 
 formed on some subject that we should 
 know. 
 
 We all inherit a divine right to love, 
 and if we sell or forfeit our inheritance, 
 life must and will become merely a 
 hopeless obligation. 
 
 (Forgiveness is always tendered in 
 the belief that the same wrong will not 
 be repeated, and with the hope that its 
 influence will help to that end. 
 
 It is better for us to be placidly 
 ignorant of an injury than to be vio- 
 lently conscious of its intention. 
 
 I have great confidence in the friend- 
 ship of my friends, and want to believe 
 in them for their own sake and my 
 own. 
 
 56 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 IT is unfortunate that but few women 
 realize the importance of showing 
 the best side of their character to their 
 husbands. 
 
 The faith we have is often, in many 
 ways, nothing more than well-devel- 
 oped hope, clearly defined and under- 
 stood. 
 
 When we do our best, we perform 
 our duty; without regard to the result 
 of our efforts. 
 
 Ordinary charity may relieve the 
 consequence of poverty; but real 
 philanthropy must deal with the cause 
 of existing conditions, and correct 
 them. 
 
 We may receive all we deserve; but 
 the estimate is generally made accord- 
 ing to the impulse and generosity of 
 those who pay out to us the rations 
 of appreciation. 
 
 There are some people whom we like, 
 but do not admire; and others we ad- 
 mire, but do not like; and how hard 
 it is to prove sincere in either condi- 
 tion. 
 
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 IT seems very dark sometimes just 
 before the daylight of what we 
 hope for, but let us look and work con- 
 stantly towards the dawn. 
 
 Folly is always by our side, but rea- 
 son only comes to us upon request. 
 
 The only excusable curiosity is that 
 one prompted by a desire to be in- 
 formed on some subject that we should 
 know. 
 
 We all inherit a divine right to love, 
 and if we sell or forfeit our inheritance, 
 life must and will become merely a 
 hopeless obligation. 
 
 (Forgiveness is always tendered in 
 the belief that the same wrong will not 
 be repeated, and with the hope that its 
 influence will help to that end. 
 
 It is better for us to be placidly 
 ignorant of an injury than to be vio- 
 lently conscious of its intention. 
 
 I have great confidence in the friend- 
 ship of my friends, and want to believe 
 in them for their own sake and my 
 own. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 ONE of the strongest incentives to 
 induce deception in others to- 
 wards ourselves is an open evidence of 
 suspicion in our attitude towards them. 
 
 Ambition rules and lays the founda- 
 tion of all the great things in the world, 
 on which are built the permanent struc- 
 tures of realization. 
 
 One of the first essential lessons that 
 should be instilled into the hearts of 
 child-life is the importance of an earn- 
 est observance of the fourth command- 
 ment. 
 
 It is frequently necessary to concur 
 in a fool's opinion, or bear the burden 
 of being considered an egotist. 
 
 Only those who have been wounded 
 can bend in proper appreciation and 
 understanding towards others in pain. 
 
 The only mind impossible of devel- 
 opment is that of the egotist ignorant 
 of his ignorance. 
 
 The veneer of wealth may conceal 
 the deficiency of good birth, provided 
 such people preserve their self-control 
 and hold their temper. 
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 REAL business ability demands 
 that we shall master system, 
 and not enslave ourselves to that con- 
 dition. 
 
 There is no deception on earth so 
 mean and unmanly as self deception. 
 
 Let every one of us apply the micro- 
 scope to our own short-comings before 
 we attempt to diagnose our fellows' 
 faults. 
 
 The pearls that we cast before swine 
 generally cost us more than the same 
 value properly appreciated elsewhere. 
 
 How small some of us appear in the 
 eyes of others, compared with the dis- 
 torted vision that presents itself in the 
 mirror of our own conceit. 
 
 It is, as a rule, more easy to con- 
 vince a skeptic than to undeceive a 
 fool. 
 
 Those that endeavor to minimize the 
 minds and morals of others, can only 
 expect to excite ridicule and contempt 
 against themselves in the opinions of 
 justice and reason. 
 
 There is a wanton waste of senti- 
 ment in the to-morrow of remorse, that 
 might have been appreciated in the 
 thoughtfulness of to-day. 
 58 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 HOW many of us are crucified up- 
 on the cross of what we believe 
 to be right, in the face of our own de- 
 spair. 
 
 The world's stage holds out no ap- 
 plause for those who dare to exceed 
 the expectations of others in the same 
 cast. 
 
 The warm, strong hand of labor and 
 love covers all the best parts of the 
 world and represents everything divine 
 in human character. 
 
 Only those that have been wounded 
 can bend with tenderness and under- 
 standing towards others in pain. 
 
 The average man's opinion of women 
 is founded upon one woman's char- 
 acter, and the impression created from 
 a knowledge of her individual tempera- 
 ment. 
 
 I have just as much confidence in 
 my fellow man as I have in myself; 
 no more and no less. 
 
 It seems quite natural to suffer 
 sometimes for the sake of a cause or 
 principle, and things natural are gen- 
 erally right. 
 
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 GENEROSITY of character and 
 a cheerful disposition under self 
 sacrifice is an absolute evidence of di- 
 vinity in the heart of mankind. 
 
 Hope is really nothing more than a 
 beautiful thought, with the foundation 
 of belief beneath it. 
 
 Love is the purifier which separates 
 all generosity and kindness from a 
 sense of obligation. 
 
 Ordinary honesty demands that we 
 shall draw a curtain over the faults of 
 others, that we possess ourselves. 
 
 It is the motive behind the sin that 
 makes it one, and the virtue of inten- 
 tion that absolves a seeming wrong. 
 
 Some friendships turn aside when 
 the first cloud shadows the sun of suc- 
 cess. 
 
 Absolute faith is founded largely on 
 absolute hope, and each one strength- 
 ens the other. 
 
 Let us come out from the shadows 
 of selfishness, and stand in the warm 
 sunshine of self sacrifice for a while. 
 
 The pride we have in place and blood 
 is only justified when we make it so. 
 
 60 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 A man is always safe in spite of 
 every influence in earth or heaven, as 
 long as he can keep faith in himself. 
 
 The spice of speculation is a danger- 
 ous and expensive experiment, but it 
 is always necessary to suffer a risk in 
 order to enjoy a sensation. 
 
 Caution and enthusiasm are foreign 
 to each other. 
 
 %&* ta& i&& 
 
 YOUTH. 
 
 The first fresh opening bud of life's 
 young spring, 
 The rose just breathing forth its 
 sweet perfume, 
 The untold consciousness that love-life 
 brings, 
 Which lives too brief and dies too 
 soon. 
 Within the circle of our fondest hopes 
 Our earliest memories and our dead 
 desires, 
 We yet hold sacred and devoutly close 
 The genial warmth of youth's first 
 open fires. 
 
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 WIT is often degenerated into 
 cruelty, unless gloved with 
 merciful consideration for the feelings 
 of those it affects. 
 
 One of the most merciful of God's 
 laws is that tenderness which draws 
 the curtain to-day over the uncertainty 
 of to-morrow. 
 
 It is often necessary to restrain our 
 impulse in order to successfully exer- 
 cise our purpose. 
 
 I have just seen a mother worship 
 at the shrine of child-life, and God 
 seemed very near at the time. 
 
 The first and most important part of 
 all knowledge is our respect and confi- 
 dence in the sources from which it 
 was obtained. 
 
 Out of the heart of woman comes a 
 prayer of thanksgiving for every kiss 
 that love and appreciation tenders to 
 her worth. 
 
 If every man would endeavor to keep 
 just one life out of the shadows, there 
 would be no misery in the world. 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 GENTLE consideration for those 
 less fortunate than ourselves is 
 one of the few positive indications of 
 good breeding. 
 
 Here's to the dear little home-maker 
 of domestic life, who stands on the 
 threshold lifting her sweet face for 
 the kiss of hope, love and encourage- 
 ment. 
 
 There is no permanent happiness 
 beyond the line that separates our re- 
 sources from our expenses. 
 
 Self reliance is not conceit, we must 
 hold ourselves above the hoofs of the 
 common herd. 
 
 The real permanent beauty of home 
 life is best reflected in the faces of 
 those around the firesides of content- 
 ment. 
 
 It is pathetically absurd to note the 
 extremes that some people will go to 
 in order to establish erroneous impres- 
 sions about themselves. 
 
 Rise above others if you would be 
 hated, and sink beneath them would 
 you be despised. 
 
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 IT is not those who do not under- 
 stand that we should censure, but 
 those who do, and yet refuse to avail 
 themselves of possessed intelligence. 
 
 Love is an essential to some lives as 
 the dew of heaven is necessary to the 
 flowers of the morning. 
 
 Investigation would seldom be pur- 
 sued, if fact and truth held no object in 
 view. 
 
 Sentiment and success are often at 
 the extreme end of life's efforts, and 
 both pulling in opposite directions. 
 
 Men too small to overcome little ob- 
 stacles are not large enough to control 
 large accomplishments. 
 
 Discipline is to mental and physical 
 training what intelligent architecture 
 is to construction. 
 
 Cheap horses under fine blankets re- 
 ceive consideration at the starting 
 point, but lose their value at the finish. 
 
 Unconscious innocence in woman's 
 nature appeals to men like the perfume 
 of an unhandled rose. 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 A man very seldom realizes the im- 
 portance of what he does not do, until 
 it is too late to accomplish it. 
 
 There are times when we turn to our 
 home, as a wounded child comes to its 
 mother for comfort and love. 
 
 Moral strength is best developed in 
 the arms of temptation. 
 
 Fools often take offense at what wise 
 men laugh over. 
 
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 THE WOMAN WE LOVE. 
 
 Before the most beautiful works of 
 men, 
 The queens of music and gods of 
 flowers, 
 Sacred as paths where angels have 
 trod, 
 And pure as the breath of child-life 
 hours ; 
 We kneel uncovered beside the shrine, 
 Awed as if touched by the saints 
 above, 
 Before the beautiful God-kissed eyes 
 And the soul of the woman we love. 
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 UNNECESSARY detail is as 
 great an octopus to business as 
 the absence of a prope ramount of in- 
 telligent system. 
 
 Wit is a virtue only when in the 
 hands of those capable of knowing how 
 to amuse one without wounding an- 
 other. 
 
 Most of our joys are settled in full 
 by the ultimate harvest of our grief. 
 
 Obstacles we have climbed over look 
 small to us after we have reached the 
 summit of life's accomplishments. 
 
 Rascality is, as a rule, measured by 
 an individual code of morals, and 
 judged largely from a personal stand- 
 point. 
 
 There is no limit to the capacity of 
 the human heart, it expands exactly 
 in proportion to its requirements. 
 
 Courage and confidence is the seal of 
 consistent genius. 
 
 We frequently admire most in others 
 what we least possess in ourselves. 
 
 The safest course in discussion is to 
 breathe an attitude of interest and re- 
 main silent. 
 
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Thought & Versi 
 
 GOOD women lead more men into 
 Christianity by example than 
 the Devil drags away by temptation. 
 
 If there was only one woman on 
 earth, she should be a mother large 
 enough to take men in her arms. 
 
 The little hands of love are the levers 
 that help to lift the weight of effort. 
 
 There is a certain amount of honesty 
 in doubt that is commendable, provided 
 it leads to investigation. 
 
 Warm hearths hold men to their 
 homes and thaw out the gentle side of 
 their nature. 
 
 Real strength of character is best 
 illustrated on the curtain of adversity. 
 
 Those who abuse prosperity the 
 most, condole with misfortune the 
 least. 
 
 Keep (if you can) your code of 
 knowledge under the cover of request 
 for information. 
 
 To think as others do means only to 
 share their mistakes, and to think dif- 
 ferently, to bear their censures. 
 
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 THE primary influence of home and 
 mother never entirely goes out 
 of our lives. 
 
 Men are sometimes called pessimists 
 by those who lack the ability to under- 
 stand them. 
 
 If you can't drink intelligently don't 
 drink at all. If you do drink at all, 
 you can't drink intelligently. 
 
 The attempt to appear what we are 
 not, generally casts a clear outline of 
 what we are. 
 
 Why is it that human character re- 
 spects sincerity and goodness in wom- 
 en and suspects the same qualities 
 among men? 
 
 Every man is dragged down by a 
 condition in life that does not uplift 
 him. 
 
 It is so easy to disappoint a hope by 
 the indulgence of a doubt. 
 
 A modern form of genius is com- 
 mon-sense seasoned with rational judg- 
 ment. 
 
 Indecision as to life's intentions but 
 deepens the shadows on the highway 
 of effort. 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 Stupidity is often responsible for a 
 great deal of apparent rascality. 
 
 The ideal life is that condition which 
 brings us the most happiness and 
 spares others the most pain. 
 
 There can be no tears of loss shed 
 over those things which we have yet 
 to find. 
 
 %&* &?• ^* 
 
 HOME. 
 
 Around the sacred shrine of home 
 
 We kneel in hope and prayer, 
 And find amid its flowers of love 
 
 Sweet consolation there. 
 The trials and doubts of outside life 
 
 Are quickly swept away, 
 As winter snow soon disappears 
 
 With sunshine in its way. 
 
 The laugh of child-life brings us back 
 
 To faith and peace again, 
 And tired eyes turn toward the dawn 
 
 Beyond the night of pain. 
 A kiss from heaven seems to breathe 
 
 Its benediction there, 
 As mother leads with loving hand 
 
 The bay's way to prayer. 
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 LET us hope on. It is the last straw 
 sometimes in the ocean of effort 
 that points to an incoming tide. 
 
 There are no thorns upon that pacific 
 plant known as the flower of silence. 
 
 He commits a double crime who 
 tempts another to do wrong. 
 
 There is no half-way status of pur- 
 pose: we either try to succeed or lie 
 down on the proposition. 
 
 It is the mirage we sometimes see 
 that keeps our hopes above the sands 
 of fear. 
 
 A sense of justice is the highest form 
 of integrity in the character of man- 
 kind. 
 
 The world only understands the sur- 
 face side of man and makes no effort 
 to interpret appearance by intention. 
 
 Loyalty is made up of two virtues, 
 sincerity, as a basis, and honesty, as a 
 component part. 
 
 The endless restlessness of discontent 
 but adds to burdens we are bound to 
 bear. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 Too many of us take our seats in the 
 orchestra circle of the world and wait 
 for the curtain to rise upon the efforts 
 of others. 
 
 Initiative action is well thought out 
 energy ballasted by brains. 
 
 No regulation should be so iron-clad, 
 but that it will bend under the pressure 
 of good judgment. 
 
 Responsibility is the only real condi- 
 tion in business life that proves ca- 
 pacity. 
 
 To cast suspicion without the proper 
 foundation of proof is indicative of the 
 lowest form of dishonesty. 
 
 ^* t&* c<5* 
 
 HOPE. 
 
 Hope is the light of to-morrow's dawn, 
 
 The sun of to-morrow's day; 
 
 A budding flower that ne'er may 
 
 bloom, 
 Yet points to a faith-lit way, 
 And lessens the weight of the cares 
 
 we wear, 
 And the burdens v/e bear to-day. 
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 THE easiest way is not always the 
 best way, and our efforts in the 
 wrong direction do not accomplish 
 much. 
 
 We cannot undo yesterday, but its 
 experience should, and will help us to 
 do to-day. 
 
 Faith is the relaxation of doubt, and 
 contentment the recreation of unrest. 
 
 The best reward of effort is a knowl- 
 edge and capacity for another attempt. 
 
 It is far better to sit still and think 
 than to actively rush in the wrong di- 
 rection. 
 
 The generous fire of sympathy for 
 those wounded will strike only on the 
 surface of our own scars. 
 
 Honesty of expression means only 
 those things that we know to be true. 
 
 The stock market of commodities not 
 in our possession is always on the 
 verge of a panic. 
 
 Our infirmities sometimes lead us 
 into paths of virtue that we never 
 knew before. 
 
 Deception is the sneak-thief of open 
 dishonesty. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 Let us plead guilty ; throw ourselves 
 on the mercy of the court and await 
 the verdict. 
 
 Misfortune may be productive of 
 sympathy but it is seldom creative of 
 love. 
 
 C^V t^.*% \JHI 
 
 COURAGE. 
 
 Though our only friend be memory, 
 And our only faith be fear, 
 Though we see the darkness gathering, 
 And the daylight disappear. 
 Let us drink the cup of nectar, 
 That a kindly fate has sent, 
 While we walk the path of duty 
 In the garden of content. 
 
 Let us stand not in the shadow, 
 Because the sun must set, 
 Nor linger in the narrow 
 Thorn-strewn highway of regret. 
 The red rose of to-morrow 
 Is but a bud to-day, 
 And the darkening clouds of sorrow, 
 Are but here to drift away. 
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 CHEERFULNESS and content- 
 ment is the best evidence of 
 God's existence in the nature of hu- 
 manity. 
 
 There are lots of alleged Christians 
 thta will peep through the blinds on 
 Sunday, but have not sufficient moral 
 courage to open the front door. 
 
 The little white bird of perfect faith 
 makes its nest only amid the branches 
 of absolute confidence. 
 
 Over-estimated personalities are re- 
 sponsible for the downfall of many 
 under-estimated propositions. 
 
 It is too often found more convenient 
 to quote a maxim than to practice a 
 principle. 
 
 A man's gentility may be recognized 
 to a large extent by what he does not 
 do to attract attention to it. 
 
 It should only be necessary to appeal 
 to the intellect of intelligence in order 
 to prove the worth of right. 
 
 Never jump at a conclusion or opin- 
 ion beyond your experience; approach 
 it only with careful diplomatic dis- 
 cretion. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 A MAN undaunted by the slurs of 
 envy to-day will accept grace- 
 fully the cheers of success to-morrow. 
 
 The human heart is never entirely 
 without tenderness as long as it is con- 
 scious of regret. 
 
 Much that man calls friendship is 
 only a liability against which there is 
 no asset to equalize. 
 
 How many small characters stand 
 before the incubator of human effort 
 and anticipate the eggs' invalidity. 
 
 As thorns indicate the presence of a 
 rose so often does hate demonstrate 
 the proximity of love. 
 
 The ostentation of virtue merely 
 proves (to some extent at least) the 
 secretiveness of vice. 
 
 The best companionship is frequent- 
 ly our own, provided we can make it 
 congenial to ourselves. 
 
 Prejudice prophecies the failure of 
 ibout as many enterprises as generosity 
 anticipates to success. 
 
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 MUCH that we call hope to-day is 
 too often only a veneer over 
 the disappointment of to-morrow. 
 
 Fatigue is the mother of rest, and 
 sings a lullaby of sleep and resignation 
 to honest effort. 
 
 There is such a thing as our conceit 
 carrying us so far above our fellow men 
 that it is impossible to see anything 
 but our side of them. 
 
 Environment is the science that sur- 
 rounds the circumstances of our lives, 
 and moulds them into the opinions of 
 experience. 
 
 The official chains of prejudice fet- 
 ters more ability than the charity of 
 generosity and justice leads to free- 
 dom. 
 
 How much wrong is brought into 
 existence by the erroneous and con- 
 venient conception of right. 
 
 It is about as difficult to legislate 
 against the vagaries of human nature 
 as to oppose the instincts of animal life. 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 When a man finds it necessary to 
 assert that he is a gentleman, there is 
 generally sufficient ground for some= 
 one else to protest that he is not one. 
 
 Let us work cheerfully, confidently, 
 and with success as our millenium, 
 slavery, or enforced labor, never pro- 
 duced anything but mechanical results. 
 
 Disappointment is the sauce that 
 adds zest to the menu of realization. 
 
 It is often more the tone than the 
 trend of an argument that makes it 
 offensive. 
 
 The open field of opportunity is fre- 
 quently shadowed by the walls of envy 
 and prejudice. 
 
 10& t&& t&& 
 
 TO-DAY. 
 
 To-day is the life of the present, 
 To-morrow the death of the past; 
 To-day lights the highway of effort, 
 To-morrow the fate-lines are cast. 
 Tides that go out in the morning 
 Forever roll on to the sea; 
 To-day is the object before us, 
 To-morrow whatever may be. 
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 THE avoidance of temptation re- 
 quires greater effort and more 
 strength of character than the require- 
 ments that compel us not to yield to it. 
 
 To suggest a remedy is always su- 
 perior to the application of an argu- 
 ment. 
 
 Giving others advice with our own 
 object in view is as dishonest as spend- 
 ing another's money, or stealing an- 
 other's happiness. 
 
 We never really appreciate how 
 bright the sun was until we realize 
 how dark the clouds are. 
 
 There is no real charity in giving 
 something that we have no use for, or 
 do not want to give. 
 
 Proper discipline consists in positive 
 instructions, based only on positive in- 
 formation and substantiated experi- 
 ence. 
 
 Home life and home influence is the 
 foundation and essential upon which 
 society and civilization is constructed 
 and Christian faith sustained. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 Men measure men largely by an in- 
 dividual standard of what their per- 
 sonal views have found most desirable 
 in manhood. 
 
 The soul and sympathy of mother- 
 hood breathes in the life of all primary 
 conditions of existence. 
 
 tefr ta& i2fc 
 
 THE LOSING SIDE. 
 
 Stand from out the shadows there, 
 Come out into the sun-way wide, 
 No one cares for the under dog, 
 No one cheers for the losing side. 
 All the heads and hearts of men 
 Bend to the shrine they call success, 
 All the gods of fate attend, 
 Those who do and frame their best. 
 
 No one cares for the yelping cur 
 Seeking a refuge from his kind, 
 All to the champion now refer, 
 None the wounds of failure bind. 
 Stand from out the shadows there, 
 Come out into the sun-way wide, 
 No one cares for the under dog, 
 No one cheers for the losing side. 
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Stub Ends of 
 
 THOSE who depreciate the condi- 
 tions of misfortune or inferior 
 ability are cowards at heart, and dis- 
 honest in character. 
 
 Too many women regard love as an 
 obligation or sense of duty and honor, 
 and lose sight of the sentimental side 
 of affection, which is really its sole sup- 
 port. 
 
 When fidelity is on the pay roll, lack 
 of loyalty to a person, cause or corpora- 
 tion is an evidence of tacit dishonesty. 
 
 Liberal views even if founded upon 
 erroneous impressions are preferable 
 to the contracted ignorance of too con- 
 servative caution. 
 
 Economy and the honesty of living 
 within the circle of our income should 
 be a lesson learned precedent to the 
 Lord's prayer. 
 
 How many misguided fools are de- 
 ceiving themselves, and insulting God, 
 by the half-hearted belief that they can 
 kneel their way into heaven. 
 
 Lack of proper appreciation is one 
 of the most certain signs of under-bred 
 depreciation. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 No intelligent God ever yet an- 
 swered a prayer that was prompted 
 only by fear, or founded upon super- 
 stition. 
 
 Man needs a sympathetic compan- 
 ion, and what he gets is the solution of 
 what he wants. 
 
 <<5* c^» c5* 
 
 "REFLECTION." 
 
 It is not always something we have 
 known 
 
 On which depends the strength of our 
 belief, 
 
 The full blown flowers from seeds that 
 we have sown, 
 
 Or the wild oats ripe and rich in au- 
 tumn's sheaf. 
 
 But greater far than these stand out 
 alone, 
 
 The faith and hope that lies deep un- 
 derneath, 
 
 Apart from something that has never 
 been, 
 
 Yet may find life and feature in the 
 spring, 
 
 Which winter fathers in the night of 
 sorrow, 
 
 That we may guard his foundling of 
 to-morrow. 
 
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 MONEY is the servant of most of 
 our laws, and poverty the slave 
 of all of them. 
 
 Many of us condemn right things 
 that we think are wrong and know 
 things are wrong that we parade as 
 right. 
 
 There is no rational reason to expect 
 fidelity within the circle of confined 
 confidence. 
 
 What some men call conscience is 
 only an undeveloped condition of fear. 
 
 We must first get close to an idol 
 before we can shatter it. 
 
 Those who build their own crosses 
 must learn to bear the burden of their 
 weight. 
 
 Love lives on the breath of devo- 
 tion's applause and renews its life in 
 the arms of appreciation. 
 
 If the mother-in-law question is ever 
 answered, she will have the last word. 
 
 Let us go on building the castles of 
 our hopes ; perhaps some day Fate may 
 find a foundation for one of them. 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 Genius is best viewed from a dis- 
 tance; proximity to it means disillu- 
 sion. 
 
 The first lesson the logical woman 
 learns is silence. 
 
 Too many opinions drive reason 
 from the midst of argument. 
 
 Intelligence is frequently measured 
 by the other fellow's ignorance rather 
 than from our own knowledge. 
 
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 A TOAST. 
 Here's to the men and women who 
 work, 
 To the thinking mind and muscles 
 strong, 
 Who look in the sun-lit face of hope, 
 And greet each day with a song. 
 
 And here's to the love we won or lost, 
 And the kisses we gave or received. 
 
 The shattered idol, the broken cross, 
 Or the troth in which we believed. 
 
 Here's to the flowers we gathered and 
 pressed, 
 And the wild rose left in the wood, 
 Before we had learned to understand, 
 Or hoped to be understood. 
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 LOVE lights may never go out, 
 but they burn very low at times. 
 
 In the little game of conjecture let 
 us never include women. 
 
 When a man finds it necessary to an- 
 nounce himself, it is in the majority of 
 cases necessary for him to do so. 
 
 The first condition of gentility is laid 
 upon environment, and the structure 
 itself is almost entirely dependent up- 
 on the foundation. 
 
 Deceit is often merely an anaesthetic, 
 if used exclusively to spare pain. 
 
 Nothing develops selfishness in the 
 human character more than an abso- 
 lutely pacific condition. It is the tur- 
 moil of life that turns the better side 
 of ourselves to the sunlight. 
 
 Many of us are color blind, save to 
 the hues of our own flag. 
 
 The power of original thought 
 reigns supreme in an independent 
 world of its own. 
 
 Social cultivation is often most ably 
 illustrated by what we do not do out of 
 respect for it. 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 One of the best evidences of thor- 
 ough intellectual worth is a complete 
 and accurate knowledge of our own 
 ability. 
 
 Science gives little in exchange for 
 what it takes from faith, except to 
 offer something we do not know in re- 
 turn for what we believed. 
 
 The mental slave is one who for a 
 price will barter views against his real 
 belief. 
 
 Faith is best proven by the doubts 
 that its strength overcomes. 
 
 It is easy to forgive the mistakes that 
 men make for the sake of a principle 
 and on the right side of human nature. 
 
 The most beautiful hope in life's 
 night time is the hand of love pointing 
 with faith and encouragement towards 
 the dawn of morning. 
 
 i&& %&& i0& 
 
 LOYALTY. 
 
 Friends and devotion are brothers, 
 And we will this condition find true, 
 
 That he who is loyal to others, 
 Will also prove loyal to you. 
 
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 INDIVIDUAL opinion and original- 
 ity stand high and clear above 
 popularity, and we all, mentally at 
 least, bow before it. 
 
 The high, gentle, generous acts of 
 self-sacrificing love alone proves the 
 divinity of devotion. 
 
 Mental conviction is worthless un- 
 less substantiated by physical action. 
 
 Our education is never complete ; we 
 can, however, live, learn and accom- 
 plish to the end. 
 
 Robust egotism is a good staff to 
 lean upon, even though it supports no 
 one but ourself. 
 
 The next best evidence of large char- 
 acter is that moral strength which en- 
 ables us to recognize in others an 
 ability we do not possess ourselves. 
 
 Let us play the game for the game's 
 sake to the end, win or lose. 
 
 Self-control is the father of self-re- 
 spect; and the foundation upon which 
 self-reliance is constructed. 
 
 Left to himself the average man is 
 sincere ; it generally takes two or more 
 to practice deception. 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 Let us perform the first duty that 
 presents itself to our conscience, and 
 permit other obligations to take their 
 turn. 
 
 Orders given in an aggressive man- 
 ner are, as a rule, observed in the same 
 spirit. 
 
 It is the death of hope, more than 
 anything else, that makes us feel our 
 age. 
 
 Chance may send the wind, but ef- 
 fort and preparation spread the sails 
 to receive it. 
 
 Wrong is on the surface of human 
 character; but deep in the hearts of 
 men lives a desire to do right. 
 
 %&* <&* %2* 
 
 MANHOOD. 
 
 Looking toward the dawning day, 
 Helping some fellow along. 
 Showing the blind a sun-lit way, 
 Singing a light-heart song, 
 Speaking the truth to every man, 
 Keeping our back to the West; 
 Trusting that God will understand, 
 And hoping for the best. 
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 MANHOOD can never be quite 
 unfettered until liberated from 
 the views of other men. 
 
 How much we find we did not know 
 at all, while ascertaining what at last 
 we learn. 
 
 The resolute will oi strength scorns 
 compromise with conditions that can- 
 not be overcome. 
 
 It is not well to bare the back of 
 truth in order that a lie may be brand- 
 ed there. 
 
 Negligence and incapacity pays all 
 the wages of competency and respon- 
 sibility. 
 
 Undigested ideas from undeveloped 
 minds are often responsible for un- 
 sound conditions. 
 
 Unexpressed appreciation bears the 
 same relation to effort as undemon- 
 strated affection does to love. 
 
 There is an extenuated circumstance 
 connected with every fault that we re- 
 gret. 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 ONE kind of diplomacy consists 
 of the ability to detect weak 
 places in human character and take ad- 
 vantage of them. 
 
 Religion is too often only the fear 
 of a result, while Christianity is the 
 practice of an example. 
 
 How deep is the average smile of 
 congratulation and good will? 
 
 The God of nature teaches us to love 
 our friends and those who love us, need 
 we seek further for a more rational 
 faith? 
 
 Pessimism is a moral and mental dis- 
 order than anticipates fear instead of 
 hope, and hides in the darkness of its 
 own shadow. 
 
 Many a truth has died for want of 
 faith and many a lie has lived without 
 foundation for its life. 
 
 Self-possession is the one accom- 
 plishment that draws the line of rea- 
 son between judgment and impulse. 
 
 Only God and ourselves know some 
 things to be right, but is that not 
 enough? 
 
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 SUPERSTITION is a surface state 
 of ignorance allowed to run un- 
 restrained. 
 
 Even animals do not love or respect 
 those who place unnecessary burdens 
 upon them. 
 
 The cold morbid temperament of 
 doubt lowers and chills all the environ- 
 ments of hope. 
 
 Real forgiveness consists of the will- 
 ingness to bury a wrong in the grave of 
 generosity and forgetfulness. 
 
 Philosophers are those who can suc- 
 cessfully help others to live in content- 
 ment with what they possess. 
 
 Duty is the hardest lesson we ever 
 learn, and a foundation of earnest man- 
 hood is the only basis upon which it 
 will permanently stand. 
 
 Financial crisis are too frequently 
 due to the fact that economical policies 
 have been allowed to pass into the 
 hands of incompetent control. 
 
 Nothing is absolutely our own, ex- 
 cept those things which we have origi- 
 nated and created ourselves. 
 90 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 CHURCH building is a worthy oc- 
 cupation, but home making is a 
 sacred calling. 
 
 It will prove easy to reconcile our- 
 selves to the observance of those tilings 
 which we no longer desire. 
 
 Many fool theories are frequently 
 proven by their own apparent absur- 
 dity. 
 
 Sometimes the loss of yesterday 
 proves to be to-day's consolation and 
 to-morrow's gain. 
 
 Can we not accomplish something 
 that is worthy of imitation, surely we 
 have borrowed enough from others. 
 
 The blinds are closed on the sunny 
 side of every home as soon as conten- 
 tion enters the front door. 
 
 Nothing is more characteristic of a 
 man's intelligence, than his considerate 
 attitude in the face of ignorance. 
 
 Heredity is insufficient to combat the 
 influence of undesirable envcronment. 
 
 The greatest gifts of nature consist 
 of those things which we fail to under- 
 stand. 
 
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 REPENTANCE is good, but the 
 moral strength that precludes 
 the necessity of it is far better. 
 
 Just as soon as we lose interest in an 
 undertaking, the principle involved is 
 immediately affected. 
 
 Diplomacy is a pleasant apology for 
 sincerity, yet one is an accomplishment 
 and the other a virtue. 
 
 Ignorance always has, and doubtless 
 ever will, sneer at things it fails to 
 comprehend. 
 
 The appreciation of one act well per- 
 formed, is the best incentive for an- 
 other effort. 
 
 We alone can keep the true record 
 of our thoughts and are exclusively re- 
 sponsible for their character. 
 
 Ideas not thoroughly in conformance 
 with our own views, undergo a slow 
 process of digestion before assimila- 
 tion. 
 
 Let us learn to avoid unhappiness 
 through our refusal to anticipate un- 
 pleasant possibilities. 
 
 Q2 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 AN ounce of personal enthusiasm 
 in business is worth a pound of 
 enforced effort. 
 
 Policy frequently consists only of 
 legal selfishness, with a tacit spirit of 
 dishonesty about it. 
 
 Knowledge may be power, but not 
 always happiness, as it is often better 
 not to know some things. 
 
 The greatest incentive for the pro- 
 gress of intelligence is our respect for 
 the existence of knowledge. 
 
 System consists not only of doing 
 things neatly, but also in knowing how 
 to save the wages of incompetency. 
 
 Home should be above criticism, and 
 never is really home unless it is so. 
 
 There is much gratification in play- 
 ing a part well, provided we may, 
 without disappointment, anticipate ap- 
 plause and appreciation for our efforts. 
 
 We are only rich by comparison with 
 those who appear to us poor. 
 
 Civility costs nothing to observe, yet 
 frequently proves expensive to neglect. 
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 OF all things that are sold over 
 the counter of life happiness 
 brings the highest price. 
 
 No man is absolutely loyal to any in- 
 terest that he does not fear to lose by 
 neglect. 
 
 It is dangerous to be over-confident 
 in any branch of undertaking, without 
 regard to our experience or knowledge 
 on the subject. 
 
 Economical policies are dangerous 
 instruments in the hands of those not 
 well versed in the profits of carefully 
 directed expenditure. 
 
 The present is all-important, yester- 
 day is dead, and tomorrow may never 
 be born. 
 
 One clear cut evidence of intelli- 
 gence is the ability to gracefully admit 
 that we were in the wrong. 
 
 Many of us are too ready to judge by 
 report, and by so doing often jump to 
 unjust and erroneous conclusions. 
 
 Sincerity is one of the leading ma- 
 terials that constitute the statue of 
 perfect manhood. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 WE should always endeavor to 
 never place the emphasis of 
 obligation upon a favor. 
 
 It is hard for some of us to pay in- 
 terest on the notes of indiscretion after 
 they have been outlawed, save by a 
 sense of moral obligation. 
 
 A contemptible feature of weakness 
 is that which permits us to strike an 
 enemy through the heart of a friend. 
 
 Nothing will prove to be so bad to- 
 morrow as it seems to be to-day. 
 
 It is not only the memory of the past 
 that holds us to life, but the hope that 
 the future may bury its recollection. 
 
 Cleanliness for its own sake is a 
 virtue and an indication of the highest 
 form of self-respect. 
 
 Only small men stand within the 
 shadows of a day which their earnest 
 efforts might have dispelled. 
 
 We often confess faults to ourselves 
 that the proper amount of moral cour- 
 age prohibits our admitting to others. 
 
 The last and longest love of a wom- 
 an's life is always the ideal affection 
 that she has either realized or lost. 
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 TOO many of us grieve after it is 
 too late to do so, and so many 
 of us rejoice before it is time 
 
 Love for child-life increases with 
 our age, as the longing for flowers 
 lives in a desert life. 
 
 Human nature is pushing forward 
 toward its millenium, and is retarded 
 at present more by the conceit that in- 
 fluences us than by anything else. 
 
 If every one of us would help one 
 person out of the shadows and into 
 the sunshine of life there would be no 
 misery in the world. 
 
 Some men term philosophy that con- 
 dition which proves discretion to be a 
 necessity and resignation a virtue. 
 
 It is cowardly to demand or expect 
 from some one else that which we are 
 unable to accomplish ourselves. 
 
 We are all subject to environment 
 and live under its direct influence for 
 either good or evil. 
 
 The stern truths of experience 
 should be gracefully received as testi- 
 monials of their own value. 
 90 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 Love is the primary state of un- 
 selfishness and the secondary condition 
 of self-sacrifice. 
 
 Some of us never look for what we 
 want until it is lost. 
 
 Birth is the foundation upon which 
 we build the structure which environ- 
 ment, opportunity and effort creates. 
 
 A man never loves the home of con- 
 tention, even though his own faults 
 contribute to that condition. 
 
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 IT IS NOT MANLY. 
 
 It is not manly to parade success 
 
 For failure fathers every well tried 
 
 plan, 
 'Tis in the faltering darkness of dis- 
 tress 
 We best the touch of kindness under- 
 stand. 
 It is not manly to bemean a power 
 We cannot in our weakness claim as 
 
 ours, 
 And honesty does not permit an end 
 Presuming on the friendship of a 
 friend. 
 
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 REPENTANCE is good, but the 
 moral strength that precludes 
 the necessity of it is far better. 
 
 Just as soon as we lose interest in an 
 undertaking, the principle involved is 
 immediately affected. 
 
 Diplomacy is a pleasant apology for 
 sincerity, yet one is an accomplishment 
 and the other a virtue. 
 
 Ignorance always has, and doubtless 
 ever will, sneer at things it fails to 
 comprehend. 
 
 The appreciation of one act well per- 
 formed, is the best incentive for an- 
 other effort. 
 
 We alone can keep the true record 
 of our thoughts and are exclusively re- 
 sponsible for their character. 
 
 Ideas not thoroughly in conformance 
 with our own views, undergo a slow 
 process of digestion before assimila- 
 tion. 
 
 Let us learn to avoid unhappiness 
 through our refusal to anticipate un- 
 pleasant possibilities. 
 92 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 AN ounce of personal enthusiasm 
 in business is worth a pound of 
 enforced effort. 
 
 Policy frequently consists only of 
 legal selfishness, with a tacit spirit of 
 dishonesty about it. 
 
 Knowledge may be power, but not 
 always happiness, as it is often better 
 not to know some things. 
 
 The greatest incentive for the pro- 
 gress of intelligence is our respect for 
 the existence of knowledge. 
 
 System consists not only of doing 
 things neatly, but also in knowing how 
 to save the wages of incompetency. 
 
 Home should be above criticism, and 
 never is really home unless it is so. 
 
 There is much gratification in play- 
 ing a part well, provided we may, 
 without disappointment, anticipate ap- 
 plause and appreciation for our efforts. 
 
 We are only rich by comparison with 
 those who appear to us poor. 
 
 Civility costs nothing to observe, yet 
 frequently proves expensive to neglect. 
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 OF ail things that are sold over 
 the counter of life happiness 
 brings the highest price. 
 
 No man is absolutely loyal to any in- 
 terest that he does not fear to lose by 
 neglect. 
 
 It is dangerous to be over-confident 
 in any branch of undertaking, without 
 regard to our experience or knowledge 
 on the subject. 
 
 Economical policies are dangerous 
 instruments in the hands of those not 
 well versed in the profits of carefully 
 directed expenditure. 
 
 The present is all-important, yester- 
 day is dead, and tomorrow may never 
 be born. 
 
 One clear cut evidence of intelli- 
 gence is the ability to gracefully admit 
 that we were in the wrong. 
 
 Many of us are too ready to judge by 
 report, and by so doing often jump to 
 unjust and erroneous conclusions. 
 
 Sincerity is one of the leading ma- 
 terials that constitute the statue of 
 perfect manhood. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 WE should always endeavor to 
 never place the emphasis of 
 obligation upon a favor. 
 
 It is hard for some of us to pay in- 
 terest on the notes of indiscretion after 
 they have been outlawed, save by a 
 sense of moral obligation. 
 
 A contemptible feature of weakness 
 is that which permits us to strike an 
 enemy through the heart of a friend. 
 
 Nothing will prove to be so bad to- 
 morrow as it seems to be to-day. 
 
 It is not only the memory of the past 
 that holds us to life, but the hope that 
 the future may bury its recollection. 
 
 Cleanliness for its own sake is a 
 virtue and an indication of the highest 
 form of self-respect. 
 
 Only small men stand within the 
 shadows of a day which their earnest 
 efforts might have dispelled. 
 
 We often confess faults to ourselves 
 that the proper amount of moral cour- 
 age prohibits our admitting to others. 
 
 The last and longest love of a wom- 
 an's life is always the ideal affection 
 that she has either realized or lost. 
 95 
 
Stub Ends of 
 
 TOO many of us grieve after it is 
 too late to do so, and so many 
 of us rejoice before it is time 
 
 Love for child-life increases with 
 our age, as the longing for flowers 
 lives in a desert life. 
 
 Human nature is pushing forward 
 toward its millenium, and is retarded 
 at present more by the conceit that in- 
 fluences us than by anything else. 
 
 If every one of us would help one 
 person out of the shadows and into 
 the sunshine of life there would be no 
 misery in the world. 
 
 Some men term philosophy that con- 
 dition which proves discretion to be a 
 necessity and resignation a virtue. 
 
 It is cowardly to demand or expect 
 from some one else that which we are 
 unable to accomplish ourselves. 
 
 We are all subject to environment 
 and live under its direct influence for 
 either good or evil. 
 
 The stern truths of experience 
 should be gracefully received as testi- 
 monials of their own value. 
 90 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 Love is the primary state of un- 
 selfishness and the secondary condition 
 of self-sacrifice. 
 
 Some of us never look for what we 
 want until it is lost. 
 
 Birth is the foundation upon which 
 we build the structure which environ- 
 ment, opportunity and effort creates. 
 
 A man never loves the home of con- 
 tention, even though his own faults 
 contribute to that condition. 
 
 fc^w K&& <(?* 
 
 IT IS NOT MANLY. 
 
 It is not manly to parade success 
 
 For failure fathers every well tried 
 
 plan, 
 'Tis in the faltering darkness of dis- 
 tress 
 We best the touch of kindness under- 
 stand. 
 It is not manly to bemean a power 
 We cannot in our weakness claim as 
 
 ours, 
 And honesty does not permit an end 
 Presuming on the friendship of a 
 friend. 
 
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 HONESTY is the single quality 
 that exceeds the value of per- 
 sonality in business life. 
 
 Genius is an idea inspired by energy 
 and nursed by a persistent effort into 
 accomplishment. 
 
 The open evidence of jealousy is a 
 tacit admission of inferiority. 
 
 It is not fair to ourselves or to 
 others, to crucify a conviction of what 
 we know to be right upon the cross of 
 what we fear to be wrong. 
 
 Reasonable criticism is a part of 
 business philanthropy. 
 
 Ignorance was never known to 
 bring in a verdict inconsistent with its 
 intelligence. 
 
 Divinity is everything and anything 
 that brings happiness in the place of 
 where sorrow was before. 
 
 Some people mistake pity for con- 
 sideration; it is not manly to degrade 
 a fool. 
 
 The weight of responsibility de- 
 velops the muscles of endeavor. 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 ILL nature is the father of those hard 
 lines that form under the once 
 soft eyes of gentleness and love. 
 
 The generosity of self sacrifice is the 
 only sentiment worth consideration 
 after all. 
 
 It is sometimes better not to know 
 what others fear you, do. 
 
 As drops of water work their way 
 through stone, so long continued effort 
 finds its goal. 
 
 An unfilled promise is but little bet- 
 ter than a premeditated lie, with the 
 taint of dishonesty about it. 
 
 We are frequently asked to follow 
 advice that has never reached its own 
 destination. 
 
 The performance of right is merely 
 a recognition of common sense. 
 
 Real love, after all, is nothing much 
 but giving away the crust that we hun- 
 ger for ourselves. 
 
 Concurrence in the views of others 
 is seldom governed by unbiased opin- 
 ion, and one cannot add strength to 
 another's weakness by endorsing it. 
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 THERE may be nothing in it after 
 all, but we never know until the 
 shell is opened and found empty. 
 
 How often prejudice cheats us out 
 of the rights of reason, investigation 
 and justice ! 
 
 Some men's definition of friendship 
 consists merely of a tool with which 
 imposition can be safely practiced. 
 
 It is easier to forgive a pretty woman 
 for doing wrong than to reconcile 
 one's self to an uglv one for being so. 
 
 The humanity of a lie is most ably 
 illustrated when used as a substitute 
 for a painful truth. 
 
 It requires extraordinary and uncon- 
 scious ability to accept good advice 
 gracefully and utilize it without preju- 
 dice. 
 
 Sentiment softens some natures, 
 hurts others, and causes doubt to exist 
 in the hearts of all. 
 
 One form of genius is that creative 
 talent which finds upon the shore of 
 thought two ideas where only one 
 lived before. 
 
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Thought & Verse 
 
 MANY apparent virtues are but 
 vices masked by the motives 
 that produced them. 
 
 Every man of individual thought 
 and expression must be prepared to 
 receive the scorn that comes with the 
 curse of egotism. 
 
 The ordinary ways of friendship too 
 often lie only in the lighted places of 
 the lives of those for whom it is ex- 
 pressed. 
 
 Play the manly role in all emergen- 
 cies of life, even if you do not feel 
 the part. 
 
 Our value in any cause is lost as 
 soon as an earnest interest and en- 
 thusiasm is absent from it. 
 
 A man always loses respect for him- 
 self before others suspect his lack of 
 worth or integrity. 
 
 Sometimes the hearts of children in 
 the breasts of men lead great minds 
 into the paths of simplicity and peace, 
 and point out purer, better ways of 
 life than they have ever known. 
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 IN order to spare ourselves humili- 
 ation, it is best to restrict ambi- 
 tion within the circle of our conscious 
 strength. 
 
 When a woman loses a man's affec- 
 tion on account of having misplaced 
 it, she generally looks in the wrong 
 direction to recover it. 
 
 Men who permit their sentimental 
 sensibility to control them in the gar- 
 den of love should for their own happi- 
 ness content themselves with the 
 flower of friendship. 
 
 Let all your manly sympathies out 
 to the simple, unconscious fool who 
 revels in the knowledge that he does 
 not possess. 
 
 The world is often old and senile in 
 its reason when young inquiring minds 
 dare to ask a question. 
 
 Self reliance is not conceit, but its 
 surface appearance is closely related 
 to it. 
 
 It is only through the realization of 
 some things that we find out we did 
 not really want them after all. 
 102 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 The commodity of justice is a high 
 priced luxury which few, through the 
 greater claim of necessity, can afford 
 to command. 
 
 A consciousness of love and affec- 
 tion makes plain the path where duty 
 treads. 
 
 It is only the weak that make vows ; 
 strength offers its illustration through 
 effort. 
 
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 "THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN." 
 
 Beyond the dearest, sweetest dreams 
 of love, 
 Apart from every passion and desire, 
 And separate from any thought or 
 strife, 
 That may have held us in its tor- 
 tuous fire, 
 There comes a memory sacred as the 
 day, 
 "When we repented for our darkest 
 sin, 
 That holds us fearful, trembling in its 
 sway, 
 The recognition of what might have 
 been. 
 
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 GOOD grows rapidly upon the fer- 
 tile soil of evil, and out of 
 wrong is often born the offspring of 
 right. 
 
 Where is the line of reason drawn 
 between the age of discretion and the 
 hour of decay? 
 
 We never know who our real friends 
 are until the lies of our enemies are 
 denied by them. 
 
 Appreciation is the lubricator on 
 which the wheels of effort turn. 
 
 Reason is the life of all that is new 
 and the youth of all that is old. 
 
 It is more blessed to render an idea 
 than to receive a suggestion. 
 
 Real worth requires no endorse- 
 ment as it is only genuine when known 
 to be so. 
 
 To observe, without question, in- 
 structions we believe to be wrong is 
 rank insubordination and deliberate 
 disloyalty. 
 
 Envy is the weapon that ignorance 
 directs against intelligence and suc- 
 cess. 
 
 104 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 LOVE'S AWAKENING. 
 
 A bud from which no petals yet have 
 fallen, 
 The rose of youth just opening on its 
 stem; 
 The silver voice of love's ambition 
 calling, 
 A strange awakening in the hearts 
 of men. 
 Free from every fear of future know- 
 ing, 
 Breathing but the sunshine of to-day, 
 Dreading not the harvest of the sowing, 
 Seeing but the clear and faith-kissed 
 way. 
 
 Feeling only life's love just beginning, 
 Hearing but the silver notes of truth, 
 Every heart-beat some new fancy 
 bringing 
 Consummation to the hopes of youth. 
 A bud from which no petals yet have 
 ( fallen, 
 
 The rose of youth just opening on its 
 stem; 
 The silver voice of love's ambition 
 calling 
 A strange awakening in the hearts 
 of men. 
 
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 ENDEAVOR. 
 "I will try to do better to-morrow 
 Than I have done to-day," 
 Said a child with sweet intention, 
 As he knelt in tears to pray. 
 God grant in the night of failure 
 We may all in earnest say, 
 "I will try and do better to-morrow 
 Than I have done to-day." 
 "AS THE TREES LIVE." 
 As the trees grow, so lives perfect 
 love, 
 Stronger and firmer each succeeding 
 day, 
 'Tis only passion flowers, that bloom 
 inconstantly, 
 And after sunshine dies, sigh and 
 fade away. 
 As the trees bloom, evergreen in hope, 
 So doth love its heart-bound offering 
 bring, 
 And sweetly nourished by the soil of 
 faith, 
 Live forever in eternal spring. 
 As the trees live, so lives pure affec- 
 tion, 
 Yielding all its joy, sharing all its 
 sorrow, 
 Holding firm the line of this day's love 
 To measure the devotion of to- 
 morrow. 106 
 
Thought & Verse 
 
 THE MOTHER-QUEEN. 
 Within the garden of our best intents, 
 One everlasting love flower blooms 
 
 supreme, 
 Beyond all future dread, or past re- 
 grets, 
 Around the Shrine that guards our 
 
 Mother-Queen. 
 No shadow falls across the halls of 
 
 home, 
 Unless occasioned by her absence 
 
 there. 
 No sweeter music than the voice we 
 
 love, 
 Teaching child-life in the ways of 
 
 prayer. 
 She who in spring-life lead our falter- 
 ing steps, 
 Into the sun-light and amid the flowers, 
 Yet with her gray hair blowing in the 
 
 wind, 
 Beside us in the tempest, shares the 
 
 danger-hour. 
 And in the winter of our doubt and 
 
 pain 
 Leads us with faith towards the spring 
 
 again, 
 So let us kneel in loving homage there, 
 Beside the Shrine of Mother, Home 
 
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