THE LIBRARY OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
GIFTIMMORTELLES
BEING A COLLECTION OF HELPFUL THOUGHTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES
Compiled by
Mutual Benefit Reading Circle
Glendale, California
December, 1923“Seekers for Truth and Understanding and Wisdom, may we help and bless all those with whose lives we come in contact.”
Mutual Benefit Reading CircleFOREWORD
My dear Circle Members:
Life’s experiences march by in unending procession. For, with the rising of the sun, and the setting of the sun; with the ebb and flow of the seasons; and with the resurgence of the year, are the same human comedies and tragedies enacted, and the same human hopes, desires and disappointments felt. The mystery of life and the majesty and awe of death are old as time, yet as they touch our lives, constantly new and marvelous.
And ever, as the race marches on, are there little children to be reared, little lives to be directed, little souls to be helped to expand in the clear sunshine of love and wise training.
Hence there will ever be, long after you and I have gone, the need for all of the activities of circles such as ours has been.
May your work ever hold the basic thought in the foreground of your consciousness—that, while you are working primarily for THE GREAT NOW, full of opportunity, you are strengthening the foundations for the structure of THE FUTURE YEARS, when we shall no longer lead nor lend our interest; for that time when our part of the procession of human life shall have passed by into the Great Beyond.
Affectionately yours,
Eleanor J. Toll.
Founder and Chairman—1916-1921.
7MOTHER AND CHILD
“So many names, so many fames Have echoed through the earth So many deeds, so many creeds, So much of change found birth, But through the eons onward whirled, Unaltered, undefiled,
Two figures dominate the earth, The Mother and the Child.”
Mrs. A. A. Barton Chairman—1921-1923.
OUR FOUNDER’S WAY
“If our circle be bright and cheery,
If it holds a welcome true,
Opening wide its door of greeting,
To the many, not the few;
If we share our Father’s bounty
With the needy day by day,
’Tis because our hearts remember
This was our Founder’s way.” Catherine B. Henry Apology to A. J. R. Chairman—1923.
8The Mutual Benefit Reading Circle
The Mutual Benefit Reading Circle was founded in March, 1916, at the home of Mrs. Chas. H. Toll in Glendale, California. Its purpose is to bring together for mutual help and encouragement, all women who are interested in child training. Magazine articles are reviewed and books on child training read aloud and discussed by the members. The following quotations are those given by the members in answer to the roll call:
9Biblical
“Love is as strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.”
Sol. 8-6 Mrs. W. W. Stofft.
“Tho’ I speak with the tongue of men and of angels and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.”
1 Cor. 13-1 Mrs. Kulp.
“Learning makes a man fit company for himself.”
Proverb
Mrs. E. B. Moore.
“He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom.”
Isaiali 40-1
Mrs. Hanning.
“The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.”
Psalm, 31-5 Mrs. Marshall.
10Character
“If you greatly admire a quality you have at least a touch of it yourself.”
Youth’s Companion Mrs. Chas. H. Bird.
“It’s the way you show up at the show down that counts.”
Mrs. Cline.
“Make you the world a bit more beautiful and better because you have been in it.”
Edward Boker Mrs. A. F. Wintersgill.
“If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.”
H. H. Shaw Mrs. A. F. Wintersgill.
“Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.”
Michael Angelo Ada G. Dennis.
“Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike.” Roosevelt Mrs. C. M. Taylor.
11“What would this club be
If each mother were just like me?” Mrs. Wm. R. B. Wichert.
“Help us always to be what in our best moments each of us wants to be.”
Mrs. G. L. Murdock.	Frances E. Willard
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.” R. L. Stevenson
Mrs. E. G. Pomeroy.
“The help most worth while is that which teaches us to help ourselves.”
Anonymous
Mrs. H. A. Webber.
“Two kinds of company help to form good character, the company we keep and the company we keep away from.”
Mrs. S. S. Lewis.	Anonv/mous
“We are not responsible for the dispositions with which we are born, but we are responsible for the dispositions with which we die.” Mrs. D. S. Phillips.	Anonymous
“Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it not only is needless but impairs what it would improve.”
Mrs. C. L. Viereck.	Pope
12“She that has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit to look down.”
Mrs. Jamison
Mrs. Cline.
“The measure of the average person is the community of which he forms a part.
Mrs. Brunner.
“Be noble, and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.”
Lowell Mrs. C. L. Peckham.
“Nothing lovelier can be found in women than to study household good, and good works in her husband to promote.”
Mrs. Julius A. Peterson.
TELL ME
If the whole world copied you,
Copied to the letter,
Would it be a nobler world
And deceit and meanness hurled
From it all together?
Would selfishness and envy fade And in the room their absence made Would love come into view Tell me if it followed you.
Would the world be better?
The Girl’s World Mrs. Murdock.
13Cheerfulness
“Much friction can be eliminated from life’s machinery by the oil of gladness.”
Anonymous Mrs. S. L. Lewis.
“To improve your smile, you must improve your disposition, and deepen your sympathy with your fellow man.”
Curry Mrs. W. A. Kulp.
“The thing that goes the farthest, Toward making things worth while; That costs the least, and does the most Is just a pleasant smile;
The smile that bubbles from a heart
That loves its fellow-men,
Will drive away the clouds of gloom And coax the sun again.
It’s full of worth and goodness, too,
With manly kindness blest
It’s worth a million dollars
And doesn’t cost a cent.”
Anonymous Mrs. C. H. Ambrosch.
“A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five pound note.”
R. L. Stevenson
Mrs. C. H. Crawford.
14“Our smiles will not only be reflected in the mirrors but in the faces of all with whom we come in contact.”
Anonymous
Mrs. Bowles.
“When one smiles, another smiles, and there are miles and miles of smiles when one smiles.”
Anonymous Mrs. H. H. Harris.
“The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.”
Mrs. Alice Buck.
Children
“The woman who tells you that raising children isn’t much of a career is right! it isn’t, the way she raises ’em.”
Mrs. A. T. Wintersgill.	Anonymous
“One generation—one entire generation of children loved as they ask to be, understood as they expect to be, and trained as they should be, would more than begin.”
Mrs. S. C. Maranville.	Anonymous
15“Children have more need of models than of critics.”
Mrs. L. H. Thompson.
“A timid child is naturally an obedient child; just as a courageous child may be naturally a disobedient one.”
Ennis Richmond
Mrs. H. V. Henry.
“Body activity is essential to brain development. A child that is quick to play takes more interest in studying, therefore properly directed and well organized play periods mean higher grade averages and less absence by sickness.”
Mrs. Eustace B. Moore.
“A child’s emotions are stronger than his reasoning powers. He can neither rise above injustice nor adequately resist it.”
Elizabeth Harrison Mrs. A. A. Barton.
“A child becomes for his parents according to the education he receives, a blessing or a chastisement.”	i
Mrs. H. W. Bogen.
“Good children are not born, but made; what we call badness is not a disease but a symptom.” Mrs. Chas. H. Bird.	Ella Frances Lynch
16Courtesy
“We have careful thought for the stranger And smiles for the sometime guest, But oft for our own the bitter tone Though we love our own the best.”
Anonymous Mrs. C. H. Crawford.
“Courtesy is the ability to think of other people’s rights.”
Mrs. A. H. Brown.	Bishop Stevens
“Such help as we can give each other in this world is a debt to each other.”
Ruskin Mrs. L. H. Thompson.
“Courtesy is the quality that keeps a woman smiling when a departing guest stands at the open screen and lets the flies in.”
Anonymous Mrs. S. L. Lewis.
“In case of doubt, give the other fellow the benefit of it.”
Mrs. H. H. Harris.	H. M. Stansifer
17Education
“Great teachers are always great personalities. Great teaching is not the imparting of a multitude of facts, but the communication of vital ideas and high motives. The university should be a training ground for the mind, not a machine for stuffing empty sausage skins. Not what facts do you know, but, how do you use your mind, is the test of education. A trained mind is better than a crammed one.”
A. E. Anderson Mrs. E. B. Moore.
“The object of education is not only to fill the memory and train the mind: above all it is the training of the will.
Anonymous Mrs. L. H. Thompson.
“Education is at home a friend; abroad an introduction ; in solitude a solace; in society an ornament.”
Anonymous Mrs. Donald A. Magill.
“Every man must educate himself. His books and teacher are but helps; the work is his.”
Webster Mrs. Mary M. McLean.
18“Education, commences at the mother’s knee and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”
Hosea Sallow Mi's. W. E. Routt.
“Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.”
Pope Mrs. Mary M. McLean.
“Education,” said the salesman, “is the talisman that brings you luck when all else fails. Without education your money is worth nothing and life’s chief prizes are out of reach. Education is the difference between useful and comfortable living, and the sort of living that merely checks off the days as they pass, without pride of accomplishment or hope for the future.”
Mrs. A. H. Brown.Faithfulness
“Two things cannot be in one place;
Where you send a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”
Idah McGlone Gibson Mrs. Brunner.
“To thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then, be false to any man.”
Shakespeare Mrs. H. Ellis.
“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it.”
Lmcoin
Mrs. C. L. Peckham.
Friendship
“A friend—the first person who comes in when the whole world goes out.”
Anonymous
Mrs. Mary M. McLean.
20“The man who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare;
But he who has one enemy will meet him every where.”
Anonymous Mrs. Brunner.
“Our real friends are those who make us do what we can.”
Emerson Mrs. Cawood.
“Promises may get friends; but performances keep them.”
Anonymous Mrs. A. M. Rowe.
“Hold your friendship, they’re the fleet, Bound for harbors fair and sweet, Hurricane or howling gale, If they’re staunch they never fail, And there’s joy whate’er the weather, Sailing on and on together.”
John Kendrick Bangs Mrs. Elwood G. Pomeroy.
“Be a friend, and you will have friends.”
Mrs. H. Weber.	Anonymous
“Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it, not what can be gotten out of it.”
Anonymous
Mrs. C. W. Taylor.
21“If we find but one to whom we can speak out our hearts freely, with whom we can walk in love and simplicity without dissimulation, we have no ground for quarrels with the world or God.”
Stevenson Mrs. C. M. Taylor.
“We all have enemies, and all need friends.” Longfellow Mrs. Brunner.
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
Socrates Mrs. A. E. Cawood.
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Shakespeare Mrs. Julius N. Peterson.
“He who is true to one friendship thus proves himself worthy of many.”
“Friendship is love with understanding.” Anonymous Mrs. H. A. Schaffer.
“I believe that in order to have and to hold friends who will help and inspire me, I must be that sort of a friend to others; that in friendship I must give as well as receive; and that he who prizes choice friends must so live that others may prize him as well.”
P. R. Hayward Mrs. C. W. Taylor.
22“Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.”
Trumbull Mrs. S. C. Maranville.
Gossip
“Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands.”
Joseph Parker Mrs. Dame.
“Blessed be the tongue that speaks no ill, Whose words are always true That keeps the law of kindness still What ever others do.
Blessed be the hands that toil to aid
The great world ceaseless need,
The hands that never are afraid
To do a kindly deed.”
Anonymous Mrs. Ambrosch.
“If you cannot see any good in the world, keep the bad to yourself.”
Anonymous Mrs. Whitney.
“If you can’t say something pleasant about a person, keep still.”
Anonymous
Mrs. Chas. H. Bird.
23Happiness
“It is a matter of economy to be happy, to view life and all its conditions from the brightest angle, it enables one to seize life at its very best.” Mrs. Ralph Brown.	H. W. Dresser
“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.”
Mrs. Chas. H. Bird.	Anonymous
' “Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Mrs. Rosenberg.
“Happiness, like wealth, cannot be appreciated unless we have earned it.”
H. M. Stansifer Mrs. M. E. Young.
“If you have happiness and want to keep it— give it away.”
Anonymous Mrs. A. M. Rowe.
“The time to be happy is now.
The place to be happy is here.
The way to be happy is to make others happy.”'
Robert Ingersol Mrs. Oldham.
“A woman happy with her husband is worth a dozen child worshipers.”
Mrs. H. V. Henry.	J. Scott Fitzgerald
24Home
“Look well to the hearth-stone. Therein all hope for America lies.”
Coolidge Mrs. L. H. Thompson.
“Every spirit makes its house and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitants.”
Mrs. H. w. Bogen.	Emerson
Humorous
“If our good intentions could be used for paving materials in this world, it would save money for the taxpayers.”
Anonymous Mrs. Cline.
“What signifies your patience, if you can’t find it when you want it.”
Anonymous Mrs. A. F. Wintersgill.
“There are people who will never get into the heavenly orchestra because they refuse to play anything but the first fiddle.”
Anonymous
Mrs. S. L. Lewis.“Three things only are done well in haste; flying from the plague, escaping quarrels, and catching fleas.”
Anonymous Mrs. C. M. Taylor.
“Keep your clouds out of other people’s sky.” H. M. Stansifer Mrs. Ambrosch.
“Many of the so-called self-made men, employed the wrong architect.”
H. M. Stansifer Mrs. Kingsley.
“I needed somebody to educate me and bring me up right, and believe me, there is no one can do it like your own kid can.”
Nina Wilcox Putnam Mrs. C. H. Crawford.
“Most women prefer soprano to alto; it’s higher toned.”
Anonymous Mrs. C. H. Whitney.
“The woman who tells you that raising children isn’t much of a career is right. It isn’t, the way she raises ’em.”
Anonymous Mrs. Sayler.
“Observe the postage stamp; it sticks to one thing until it gets there.”
Anonymous
Mrs. Chas. H. Whitney.
26Don’t carry your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
Elbert Hubbard Mrs. McCormick.
“Life is something of a grind, but there are plenty of cranks.”
Anonymous Mrs. Chas. H. Whitney.
“What makes the football player is the kicking, not the being kicked.”
Lee Mrs. H. C. Henry.
“If your nose is close to the grind stone rough, And you hold it down there long enough, In time you will say there is no such thing As brooks that babble or birds that sing. These three will all the world compose: Just you and the stone and your poor old nose.” Anonymous Mrs. Bassell.
Kindness
“Kind words win all, e’en those in error toiling, a rusty hinge will oft respond to oiling.”
Anonymous
Mrs. Edwin W. Evans.
27“Speak fair words, and you will hear kind echoes.”
Milton
Mrs. Eckert.
“Kindness is a language that the dumb can speak and deaf can understand.”
Anonymous Mrs. Lewis.
“Do good with what thou hast or it will do thee no good.”
Mrs. Herman Weber.	William Penn
Do the work that’s nearest Tho it’s dull at whiles,
Helping when you meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.
Mrs. Florence Wintersgill.	Kingsley
Life
“No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him; there is always work And tools to work withal, for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil.”
Mrs. C. M. Taylor.	Lowell
28“To get the great, good things of life, how much you have to give.”
Dorothy Canfield Mi’s. R. M. Russell.
“Try to live so that others are glad when they see you coming.”
H. M. Stansifer Mrs. Mary McLean.
“What makes life dreary is want of motive.” George Eliot Mrs. Julius N. Peterson.
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.”
Emerson Mrs. J. A. Weber.
“God gave us life not just to buy and sell
And all that matters is to live it well.”
Edgar A. Guest Mrs. Cline.
“Not only live and let live But live and help live.”
H. M. Stansifer Mrs. C. I. Viereck.
“There is a destiny which makes us brothers None goes on the way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.”
Marlcham Mrs. Harry V. Ellis.
29*<
“Live for those who love you, For those whose hearts are true,
For the heaven that smiles above you, And the good that you may do.”
Ml’S. J. W. Andree.	Anonymous
Love
“Service to others is the test of love.”
Anonymous
Mrs. C. W. Taylor.
“When love begins to sicken and decay he useth an enforced ceremony.”
Shakespeare Mrs. W. W. Stofft.
“Life is not a holiday, but a vacation, and the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.”
Drummond
Mrs. W. A. Kulp.
Opportunity
“To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.”
Johnson Mrs. L. H. Thompson.
30Optimism
“The men who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.”
Elizabeth Harrison Mrs. E. B. Moore.
“Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.”
Anonymous Mrs. A. M. Rowe.
“I’m but a cog in life’s vast wheel
That daily makes the same old trip,
Yet what a joy it is to feel
That, but for me, the wheel might slip.
’Tis something after all, to jog
Along, and be a first-class cog.”
Mrs. Rosenberg.
“When the outlook is not good—try the up look.”
E. 0. Grover Mrs. Ambrosch.
“Give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.”
Mrs. Brunner.
“If you are complaining that ‘things are as bad as they can be,’ take courage from the fact that at this point there is no other course left them, but to get better.”
Anonymous Mrs. L. Lewis.
31“If the worst comes to the worst, that is a good time to make the best of it.”
Anonj/wows Mrs. L. H. Thompson.
“So often the things that come to us in the form of hardship are only blessings in disguise and form a large part of our development.”
Anonymous Mrs. Art Franklin.
“There’s nothing so bad that could not be worse, There’s little that time may not mend,
And troubles no matter how thickly they come Must surely come to an end.
Don’t despond, don’t give up, but just be yourself The self that is highest and best.
Just live every day in a sensible way
And leave to God all the rest.”
Anonymous Mrs. Logan.
“Let us all speak of the sunshine of yesterday and tomorrow, instead of the clouds of today.”
Anonymous Mrs. Seger.
“Keep your face always towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.”
M. B. Whitman Mrs. Julius Peterson.

“Learn to keep your troubles to yourself, the world is too busy to care. Learn to meet your friends with a smile.”
Weekly Mrs. Julius Peterson.
32Patriotism
WHAT THE FLAG MEANS
“It means America first, it means an undivided allegiance.”
Chas. E. Hughes Mrs. M. McLean.
“Blessed are those who link justice and brotherhood to their patriotism.”	x
Anonymous Mrs. H. V. Henry.
“No sacrifice which sets a nation thinking is vain.”
Doctor Faunce
Mrs. W. W. Stofft.
THE NEW PATRIOT
“Who is the patriot? He who lights The torch of war from hill to hill, Or he who kindles on the heights The beacon of a world’s good will?
“Who is the patriot? He is he Who knows no boundary, race, or creed. Whose nation is humanity, Whose countrymen all souls that need.
“Who is the patriot? Only he Whose business is the general good, Whose keenest sword is sympathy, Whose dearest flag is brotherhood.”
Frederick Knowles Mrs. A. A. Barton.
33“Few consider how much we are indebted to the government, because few can realize how wretched mankind would be without it.”
Anonymous Mrs. A. H. Brown.
“We must have room but for one souled loyalty, and this loyalty to the American people.”
Theo. Roosevelt Mrs. Mary M. McLean.
Perseverance 
“Let us do our best today, for tomorrow is far away.”
Anonymous Mrs. Rosenberg.
“The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flights, But they, while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.”
Long Mrs. Burnham.
“Finish everything you start regardless of the cost to yourself. I had rather live but forty years and accomplish my task, than eighty and fail.”
Frank G. Weaver Mrs. Ray Phillips.
34“Whether doing, suffering, or forbearing, you may do miracles by persevering.”
Burns Mrs. Mary M. McLean.
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
Johnson Mrs. A. M. Rowe.
“It is not enough just to keep moving—head somewhere. You can ride all day on a merry-go-round, but you get off where you started.”
Anonymous Mrs. L. II. Thompson.
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
Mrs. Mary M. McLean.	Longfellow
“It is better to say ‘this one thing I do’ than to say ‘these forty things I dabble in’.”
Washington Gladden Minnie Paul.
“Who never wins can rarely lose,
Who never climbs as rarely falls.”
Whittier Mrs. C. L. Viereck.
“If you’ve tried and have not won, Never stop for crying.
All that’s great and good is done
Just by patient trying.”
Anonymous Mrs. Peckham.
35“If you strike a thorn or rose
Keep a-going!	’
If it hails or if it snows,
Keep a-going!
Taint no use to sit and whine Cause the fish ain’t on your line, Bait your hook and keep on trying, Keep a-going!
Mrs. Clark Johnson.	Frank L. Stanton
Play
“Play is a part of the law of growth.”
Lee Mrs. H. V. Henry.
“If nature says, ‘Play,’ you must play, or never quite be born.”
Mrs. H. V. Henry.	Lee
Thoughts
“There’s nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
Shakespeare Mrs. Harry V. Ellis.
36“Let your thoughts be lofty but not top-heavy.” Mrs. Harry V. Ellis.
“Thinking about what you are doing is better than thinking about what you have done.”
Anonymous Mrs. Herman Weber.
“They are never alone who are accompanied with noble thoughts.”
Sir Philip Sidney Minnie Paul.
“What you thought yesterday is of little account. What you know today—that’s the big idea.”
Anom/wous Mrs. A. T. Wintersgill.
“The best way to get along with some people is to ask for more than you expect and then by compromising get what you want.”
R. M. Stansifer Mrs. Horner.
“There is no more common thought among young people than that foolish one, that by and by something will turn up by which they will suddenly achieve fame and fortune. Things do not turn up in this world unless somebody turns them up.”
Mrs. C. H. Whitney.	James A. Garfield
“The supremacy of reason is assumed in the act of thought.”
Lee
Mrs. W. W. Stofft.
37Thrift
“Saving is useless unless properly invested.” Mrs. H. V. Henry.
“Running a house without a savings fund is like running a ship without a ballast; it’s dangerous at any time and disastrous in a storm.”
Anonymous Mrs. E. B. Moore.
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” Anonymous Mrs. Chas. H. Bird.
Truth
“A lie is at war with all the facts in the universe. Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact.”
Anonymous Mrs. Sayler.
“He who has truth at his heart, need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
John Ruskin Mrs. E. B. Moore.
38Success
“An acre of performance is worth a whole land of promise.”
Howell Mrs. Herman Webber.
“What is a failure? It’s only a spur
To a man who receives it aright,
And it makes the spirit within him stir To go in once more and fight.
If you never have failed; it’s an even guess
You never have won a high success.”
Edmund Vance Cooke Mrs. C. H. Crawford.
“Lack of initiative is the greatest enemy of success.”
Admiral Sims Mrs. A. H. Brown.
“Whatever you undertake to do, determine to excel and, doing it better than any one else, promotion will seek and find you though you hide.”
Anonymous Mrs. C. M. Taylor.
“Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly higher than if aimed at an object on the level with yourself.”
Anonymous Mrs. A. M. Rowe.
39“A man’s success in life is usually in proportion to his confidence in himself, and the energy and persistence with which he pursues his aim.”
Anonymous Mrs. E. G. Pomeroy.
“I am a great believer in Luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.”
Coleman Cox Mrs. D. Ford McCormick.
“As we grow better, we meet better people.” Elbert Hubbard Mrs. C. H. Ambrosch.
“Defeat and victory are not always opposites.
Sometimes our defeats prove to be our greatest victories.”
H. M. Stansifer
Mrs. A. M. Rowe.
“Only that which you have earned is worth having.”
Anonymous
Mrs. C. W. Taylor.
“Take a little sand, grit, pluck, and courage. Add optimism and gumption. Mix well and take at regular intervals.”
Oreson Swett Marsden Mrs. A. A. Barton.
40“No men living are more to be trusted, than those who toil upward from poverty.”
Lincoln Mi’s. Brunner.
“In general the man who is likely to succeed is the one who finds inspiration in the necessity of doing a difficult thing in a new way, while one who fails is he who balks and sulks because the old way isn’t good enough.”
Michael Pupin Mrs. Chas. Blanchard.
“There are three kinds of people in the world, the wills, the won’ts and the can’ts. The first accomplish everything, the second oppose everything, and the third fail in everything.”
Anonymous Mrs. D. F. Reichard.
“Count that day lost whose low descending sun views from thy hand no worthy action done.”
Anonymous Mrs. Bassell.
“When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.”
Anonymous Mrs. Alice Buck.
41Miscellaneous
“He scorns the honey who shuns the hive because the bees have stings.”
Shakespeare Mrs. Ambrosch.
“True sympathy that you would show is proven by your actions.”
“Good judgment used by knowing how to exercise good tact.”
Mrs. Olson.
“Birth and ancestry and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.”
Ovid Mrs. Geo. W. Campbell.
“A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which being suffered, rivers cannot quench.”
Shakespeare Mrs. Ralph H. Brown.
“Suspicion may be no fault—but showing it may be a great one.”
Anonymous
Mrs. A. T. Wintersgill.
“The glory of tomorrow is rooted in the drudgery of today.”
H. M. Stansifer Mrs. W. M. Brown.
42“We talk a great deal about the laboring man, but the only other kinds of men are the ill, the very old and fools.”
Anonymous Mrs. Ellis.
Mr. Mean-to has a comrade And his name is Didn’t-do;
Have you ever chanced to meet them ? Have they chanced to call on you ?
These two fellows live together In the house of never-win,
And I’m told that it is haunted By the ghost of Might-Have-Been.
Anonymous Mrs. Cline.
“Give what you have to someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
Longfellow Mrs. Ernest E. Osgood.
“Count that day really worse than lost You might have made divine,
Through which you scattered much of frost And never a speck of shine.”
Nixon Waterman Mrs. R. E. Jahns.
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
Swift Mrs. Cline.
43“Speak clearly if you would speak at all;
Carve every word before you let it fall.”
Anonymous Mrs. W. C. Tyrell.
“Be patient with a fool—that others may be more patient with you.”
Anonymous Mrs. D. F. Reichard.
“It is a waste of time to find fault with your-self. Lots of people will do it for you.”
Anonv/mous Mrs. C. L. Viereck.
“We should be grateful for what we have but never satisfied with what we see.”
H. M. Stansifer Mrs. C. L. Viereck.
“If we observe the law of service, if we heed our finer impulses, if we keep the soul which we revealed in our national defense, we will add security for ourselves, and give of our strength to an ideal world advancement.”
Warren G. Harding Mrs. Julius N. Peterson.
“Worry,” says a recent book on nerves, “is a complete circle of inefficient thought whirling around a pivot of fear.”
Youths’ Companion Mrs. C. H. Bird.
44“Never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds— all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.”
Edward Everett Hale Mrs. E. G. Pomeroy.
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one’s self.”
H. M. Stansifer Mrs. A. T. Wintersgill.
“A great deal of talent is lost in this world for want of a little courage.”
Sidney Smith Mrs. M. McLean.
“No one has any business to despise a sincere attempt to put into expression, however faulty, something indispensible to man.”
Anonymous Mrs. Dotson.
“It is not what a woman knows that bothers a man, but how she found it out.”
Anonymous Mrs. D. Ford McCormick.
“Most of us exaggerate the value of the things we do not possess.”
H. M. Stansifer Mrs. M. McLean.
45“You must expect to be bored if you are not interested in anything but yourself.”
Anonymous Mrs. L. S. Lewis.
“Doing nothing is equivalent to doing wrong.”
Anonymous Mrs. A. T. Wintersgill.
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but a gossip’s account of it is stranger than both.”
Anonymous Mrs. Ellis.
“Some people spend more thought and energy in justifying a bad habit than they do in forming a good habit.”
Anonymous Mrs. Marshel.
“Criticism is the tax which the public levies upon the great for the privilege of leadership.”
Awoni/mous Mrs. H. V. Ellis.
“They who know not how to act agreeably, though they have learnt many things, are still ignorant.”
Curat Mrs. W. M. Brown.
46“There are many things that make My heart beat high for beauty’s sake— The pelting freshness of the rain, Green sprays across the window pane, The vine that climbs a skyward ledge, Dark dangling grapes; the yellow sedge That rings a pool of lapis blue, Bare stems where once red roses grew; A sun-flecked wall when noon is bright, A shintz-hung room by candlelight. Such common things must ever make My heart give thanks for beauty’s sake.
Margaret Ashman Mrs. A. A. Barton.
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