Copyright 1912 
 The Acmegraph Co. 
 
library 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 
 CHEERY 
 
 IDEALS 
 
 Collected by 
 
 EVERETT THORNTON BROWN 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
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 CHEERY IDEALS 
 
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 ASTER of human destiny am I! 
 
 Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. 
 Cities and fields I walk; j penetrate 
 Deserts and seas remote, and passing by 
 Hovel and mart and palace, soon or lcite 
 
 I knock unbidden once at every gate! 
 
 If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before 
 I turn away. It is the hour of fate, 
 
 And they who follow me reach every state 
 Mortals desire, and conquer every foe 
 Save death: but those who doubt or hesitate, 
 Condemned to failure, penury and woe, 
 
 Seek me in vain and uselessly implore; 
 
 I answer not, and I return no more. 
 
 —John J. Ingalls . 
 
 TRENGTH of character consists of two things—power 
 ^ of will and power of self-restraint. It requires, there¬ 
 fore, for its existence, strong feelings and strong command 
 over them. —?• W. Robertson. 
 
 ^OOD name, in man and woman, 
 
 Is the immediate jewel of their souls. 
 
 Who steals my purse, steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; 
 ’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; 
 But he that filches from me my good name, 
 
 Robs me of that, which not enriches him, 
 
 And makes me poor indeed. — Shakespeare. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 & IVE for something, have a purpose, 
 
 And that purpose keep in view; 
 
 Drifting like a helpless vessel, 
 
 Thou canst ne’er to life be true, 
 
 Half the wrecks that strew life’s ocean, 
 
 If some start had been their guide, 
 
 Might have long been riding safely,— 
 
 But they drifted with the tide. 
 
 —Robert Whitaker. 
 
 m ITH malice towards none; with charity for all; with 
 firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, 
 let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the 
 nation’s wound; to care for him who shall have borne the 
 battle and for his widow and orphan—to do all which may 
 achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves 
 and with all nations. —Abraham Lincoln . 
 
 rr us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our 
 education; because that would mean we had stopped 
 growing. There is always the upward dimension possible for 
 us. —Julia H. Gulliver. 
 
 
 c HE best help is not to bear the troubles of others for 
 them, but to inspire them with courage and energy to 
 bear their burdens for themselves and meet the difficulties of 
 life bravely. — Lubbock. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 T is in loving, not in being loved, 
 
 The heart is blessed; 
 
 It is in giving, not in seeking gifts, 
 
 We find our quest. 
 
 Whatever be thy longing or thy need, 
 
 That do thou give. 
 
 So shalt thy soul be fed, and thou, indeed, 
 
 Shalt truly live. — M. B . Russell. 
 
 MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD 
 
 I|Y heart leaps up when I behold 
 A rainbow in the sky; 
 
 So was it when my life began; 
 
 So is it now I am a man; 
 
 So be it when I shall grow old, 
 
 Or let me die! 
 
 The Child is father of the Man; 
 
 And I could wish my days to be 
 Bound each to each by natural piety. 
 
 — Wordsworth * 
 
 F there be no loyalty there can be no great friendship. 
 
 ' —Black. 
 
 ALWAYS endeavor to be really what you would wish to 
 appear. —Granville Sharp. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 £jg) OME friendships grow and ripen steadily with the years. 
 
 They have become part of our lives and we just accept 
 them with sweet content and glad confidence. We have dis¬ 
 covered that somehow we are rested and inspired by a certain 
 comradeship; that we understand and are understood easily. 
 
 — Black. 
 
 OOD habits, habits of industry, conscientiousness, thor¬ 
 oughness, method, accuracy, and punctuality, once 
 formed by a young man, are a fortune of themselves; in- 
 wrought in the very fibres of his being, they become a part 
 of himself, and insure his success as no outward help can 
 possibly do. On the other hand, bad habits, though quickly 
 acquired, hang forever on the wheels of enterprise, and ob¬ 
 struct and defeat all progress, to the ruin and shame of their 
 victim. —William Matthews. 
 
 “2L N achievement to be proud of is that which carries im¬ 
 mortality with it. No success is worthy the name 
 which does not include character development. If a career 
 has not an upward as well as an onward tendency, if a man 
 has groveled in the mire, he is a failure, though he have mil¬ 
 lions. That only is real success which aspires, which looks 
 up, and which helps to look up as well. ,, 
 
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 O the duty which lies nearest thee, 
 already have become clearer. 
 
 Thy second duty will 
 —Thomas Carlyle. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 N Life’s small things be resolute and great 
 
 To keep thy muscles trained; know’st thou when fate 
 Thy measure takes ? or when she'll say to thee, 
 
 “I find thee worthy, do this thing for me!” 
 
 T IS a grand thing to live—to open the eyes in the morn- 
 " ing and look out upon the world, to drink in the pure 
 air and enjoy the sweet sunshine, to feel the pulse bound and 
 the being thrill with the consciousness of strength and power 
 in every nerve; it is a good thing simply to be alive, and it 
 is a good world to live in, in spite of the abuse we are fond 
 of giving it.” 
 
 
 AT HE prosperity of a nation depends upon the health and 
 morals of its citizens, and the health and morals of 
 people depend mainly upon the food they eat and the houses 
 they live in. The time has come when we must have a science 
 in domestic economy, and it must be worked out in the homes 
 of our educated women. A knowledge of the elements of 
 chemistry and physics must be applied to the daily living. 
 
 —Ellen Richards . 
 
 
 7| CALL, therefore, a complete and generous education, that 
 *** which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and mag¬ 
 nanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of war 
 
 and peace. 
 
 —John Milton . 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 ^2JriOEVER yields to temptation debases himself with a 
 debasement from which he can never rise. A man 
 can be wronged and live; but the unrestricted, unchecked im¬ 
 pulse to do wrong is the first and the second death. 
 
 —Horace Mann. 
 
 E need someone to believe us—if we do well, we want 
 our work commended, our faith corroborated. The 
 individual who thinks well of you, who keeps his mind on 
 your good qualities, and does not look for flaws, is your friend. 
 Who is my brother? I'll tell you: he is one who recognizes 
 the good in me. —Elbert Hubbard . 
 
 t jJ ^ALK happiness. The world is sad enough 
 
 Without your woes. No path is wholly rough; 
 
 Look for the places that are smooth and clear; 
 
 And speak of those to rest the weary ear 
 Of earth, so hurt by one continuous strain, 
 
 Of human discontent and grief and pain. 
 
 —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 
 
 n, how I do appreciate a boy who is always on time! 
 
 How quickly you learn to depend on him, and how soon 
 you find yourself entrusting him with weightier matters! The 
 boy who has acquired a reputation for punctuality has made 
 the first contribution to the capital that in after years makes 
 his success a certainty. — H. C. Brown. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 % CONSIDERABLE proportion of failure in business, and 
 ninety per cent of the defalcations, theft, and ruin of 
 youths among those who are employed in places of trust, are 
 due directly to gambling. I have seen, in my vast employ¬ 
 ment, so much misery caused by the head of the family 
 neglecting its support and squandering his earnings in a pol¬ 
 icy shop, and promising young men led astray in a small way 
 and finally becoming fugitives or landing in the criminal dock, 
 that I come to believe that the community which licenses and 
 tolerates public gambling cannot have prosperity in business. 
 
 —Chauncey Depew. 
 
 % HE man that keeps good-natured, 
 
 By misfortune undismayed, 
 
 Is the man that comes out winner 
 When the final hand is played; 
 
 There is e’en a certain triumph 
 That compels respect complete 
 In the way a real sportsman 
 Takes his dose of stern defeat. 
 
 —Washington Star. 
 
 % HE entire object of true education is to make people not 
 merely do the right things, but enjoy them—not merely 
 industrious, but to love industry—not merely learned, but to 
 love knowledge—not merely pure, but to love purity—not 
 merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. 
 
 —John Ruskin . 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 JLPT. your first effort be not for wealth, but independence. 
 
 Whatever be your talents, whatever your prospects, 
 never be tempted to speculate away, on the chance of a palace, 
 that which you need as a provision against the workhouse. 
 
 —Lord Lytton. 
 
 DUCATION is not learning; it is exercise and develop¬ 
 ment of the powers of the mind. There are two great 
 methods by which this end may be accomplished; it may be 
 done in the halls of learning, or in the conflicts of life. 
 
 —Princeton Review. 
 
 20LESSED are they who have the gift of making friends, 
 for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many 
 things, but, above all, the power of going out of one’s self, 
 and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. 
 
 —Thomas Hughes. 
 
 WE continue borrowing for work the hours that are 
 due to sleep, though we may postpone a settlement for 
 years, the final and inevitable result will be physical and men¬ 
 tal bankruptcy.” 
 
 “2L NOBLE and attractive every-day bearing comes of 
 goodness, unselfishness, sincerity, and refinement, 
 and these are bred in years, not in moments.” 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 ^ IVE not thy tongue too great liberty, lest it take thee a 
 prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in the 
 scabbard-thine; if vented, thy sword is in another’s hand. 
 
 — Quarles. 
 
 fl^TRONGER than steel is the sword of the spirit; 
 
 Swifter than arrows the light of the truth is, 
 Greater than anger is love that subdueth. 
 
 —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 
 
 ^J^VERY time you hold yourself rigorously to the task that 
 is appointed to you for the time, definitely attend to it 
 and carry it through with concentrated attention, you are add¬ 
 ing to your power to resist temptation. 
 
 —Henry Churchill King. 
 
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 T IS generally the man who does’nt know any better who 
 does the things that can’t be done. You see the blamed 
 fool doesn’t know that it can’t be done, so he goes ahead and 
 does it. — Charles Austin Bates. 
 
 IME past is gone, thou canst not it recall; 
 
 Time is, thou hast, improve that portion small; 
 Time future is not and may never be, 
 
 Time present is the only time for thee.” 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 “JQm whether I live an honest man, 
 
 And hold my integrity firm in my clutch, 
 
 I tell you, my brother, as plain as I can, 
 
 It matters much.” 
 
 RESPECT a man who knows distinctly what he wishes. 
 
 The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises 
 from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their 
 own whims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and 
 spend no more labor on the foundation than would be neces¬ 
 sary to erect a hut — Goethe. 
 
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 * CONOMY is of priceless value. The loss of the top 
 hoop means the loss of the barrel.” Pick up a grain 
 a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn by happy 
 experience, the power of littles as applies to intellectual proc¬ 
 esses and gains. - —/. S. Hart. 
 
 J^ROMPTNESS is a grand leader, which Procrastination 
 limps behind. Today is master of the situation; Tomor¬ 
 row is an imposter, who is almost sure to bring Failure with 
 him. —Jaynes Thomas Field. 
 
 AN must always look outside himself for a standard of 
 right and wrong. — Lowell. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 % HE distant mountains, that uprear 
 Their solid bastions to the skies, 
 Are crossed by pathways that appear 
 As we to higher levels rise. 
 
 The clouds which rise with thunder, slake 
 Our thirsty souls with rain; 
 
 The blow most dreaded falls to break 
 From off our limbs a chain. 
 
 —John G. Whittier. 
 
 E holds no parley with unmanly fears; 
 
 Where duty bids, he confidently steers; 
 
 Faces a thousand dangers at her call, 
 
 And, trusting in his God, surmounts them all. 
 
 —William Wordsworth. 
 
 ^J^OD’S goodness hath been great to thee; 
 
 Let never day or night unhallowed pass, 
 
 But still remember what the Lord hath done. 
 
 — Shakespeare. 
 
 CANNOT remain idle. Ever since I was a child, I have 
 had this feeling. Time means everything. If you can¬ 
 not do a thing here, do it elsewhere. In an hour gained may 
 be accomplished the one thing you have been striving for. 
 
 — G. Marconi. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 ^POST thou love life? Then do not squander time, for 
 that is the stuff life is made of. 
 
 —Benjamin Franklin. 
 
 “JgEEP with thee good, and you will soon be one of them. 
 But go with the bad, and you will be one of them. ,, 
 
 T was only a glad ’good morning’ 
 
 As she passed along the way, 
 
 But it spread the morning’s glory 
 Over the livelong day.” 
 
 
 W° BE honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a 
 little less, to make upon the whole, a family happier 
 for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary 
 and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, that these 
 without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to 
 keep friends with himself, here is a task for all a man has 
 of fortitude and delicacy. —Robert Louis Stevenson. 
 
 thy faith to no man’s sleeve; hast thou not two eyes 
 of thine own? — Carlyle. 
 
 
 day is immeasurably long to him who knows not 
 how to value and use it. — Goethe . 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 “2>o right and fear no one; thou mayst be sure that with 
 all thy consideration for the world, thou wilt never 
 satisfy the world. But if thou goest forward thy way, not 
 concerning thyself with the friendly or unfriendly glances of 
 men, then thou hast conquered the world, and it is subject to 
 thee. ,, 
 
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 ^HEN welcome each rebuff 
 
 That turns earth’s smoothness rough, 
 
 Each sting, that bids not stir nor stand, but go. 
 
 —Robert Browning. 
 
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 Che energy wasted in postponing until to-morrow a duty 
 of today will often do the work. 
 
 —Orison Swett Mar den. 
 
 
 | IS education forms the common mind; 
 
 Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined. 
 
 —Alexander Pope. 
 
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 ^ VERY moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily 
 combat. — Henry Wood. 
 
 
 20EWARE of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great 
 ship. — Benjamin Franklin. 
 
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. CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 AN is his own star; and the soul that can 
 Render an honest and an upright man, 
 Commands all light, all influence, all fate; 
 
 Nothing to him falls early or too late. 
 
 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, 
 
 Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 
 
 —Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 
 IVE me a man so trained in mind, that his body, is the 
 ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleas¬ 
 ure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of. 
 
 —Thomas Huxley. 
 
 €> UR greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising 
 every time we fall. — Confucius. 
 
 % O DO anything worth doing in the world, we must not 
 stand shivering on the brink, and thinking of the cold 
 and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as 
 we can. —Sidney Smith. 
 
 z HE only true refinement—that which goes deep down into 
 the character—comes from Christian charity or love. If 
 such a spirit were universal, a rude clown, or unmannered 
 peasant, or common-minded workman could not be found. 
 
 — F. IV. Robertson . 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 can never see the sun rise by looking into the 
 west.” 
 
 IS easy enough to be pleasant, 
 
 When life flows along like a song; 
 
 But the man worth while is the one who will smile, 
 When everything goes dead wrong; 
 
 For the test of the heart is trouble, 
 
 And it always comes with the years; 
 
 And the smile that is worth the praise of the earth 
 Is the smile that comes through tears. 
 
 —Ella Wheeler Wilcox . 
 
 | OST, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, 
 two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. 
 No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. 
 
 —Horace Mann. 
 
 JLife without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and 
 coming out with empty hands. 
 
 —Japanese Proverb. 
 
 "JHJhkn once the demon enters, 
 
 Stands within the door, 
 
 Peace and hope and gladness 
 Dwell there nevermore.” 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 €> H, man, forgive thy mortal foe, 
 
 Never strike him blow for blow; 
 
 For all the souls on earth that live 
 To be forgiven, must forgive. 
 
 Forgive him seventy times and seven, 
 
 For all the blessed souls in heaven 
 Are both forgivers and forgiven. 
 
 — Tennyson • 
 
 “<r HE powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing 
 has been done by him that cannot be better done. 
 There is no effort of science or art that may not be exceeded; 
 no depth of philosophy that cannot be deeper sounded; no 
 flight of imagination that may not be passed by strong and 
 soaring wing.” 
 
 % HE two most precious things on this side of the grave 
 are our reputation and our life. But is to be lamented 
 that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the 
 one, and the weakest weapon of the other. A wise man, there¬ 
 fore, will be more anxious to deserve a fair name than to 
 possess it, and this will teach him so to live as not to be 
 afraid to die. —C. C. Colton. 
 
 EAUTIFUL hands are those that do 
 Work that is earnest, brave and true, 
 
 Moment by moment the long day through. 
 
 —Thomas Ashe . 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 HAT we call the little things are merely the causes of 
 great things. —Henri Frederic Amiel. 
 
 {^PON’T send my boy where your girl can’t go, 
 
 And say, “There’s no danger for boys, you know, 
 Because they all have their wild oats to sow.” 
 
 There is no more excuse for my boy to be low 
 Than your girl, then please don’t tell him so. 
 
 Don’t send my boy where your girl can’t go; 
 For a boy or girl, sin is sin, you know. 
 
 And my baby boy’s hands are as clean and white 
 And his heart as pure as your girl’s tonight. 
 
 — Anon . 
 
 NTEMPERANCE wipes out God’s image and stamps it 
 with the counterfeit die of the devil; intemperance smites 
 a healthy body with disease from head to heel, and makes 
 it more loathsome than the leprosy of Naaman or the sores 
 of Lazarus; intemperance dethrones man’s reason, and hides 
 her bright beams in the mystic clouds that roll round the 
 shattered temple of the human soul, curtained with midnight. 
 
 —John B. Gough . 
 
 21 POLITE man is one who listens with interest to things 
 he knows all about, when they are told him by a person 
 who knows nothing about them. 
 
 —Due de Momy. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS' 
 
 T IS a mark of good manners to show courtesy to 
 servants or to any in humble station of life. A 
 polite request is always better than a stem command. Who¬ 
 ever shows disregard of the feelings of a servant or one in 
 humble station gives unmistakable proof of ill-breeding.” 
 
 £0 AN should remember that the chief value of prosperity 
 is in its capitalization of personality, and the rendering 
 of others sensitive to example and precept. 
 
 —Newell D. Hillis. 
 
 m E must be as courteous to a man as we are to a 
 picture, which we are willing to give the advantage 
 of a good light. — Emerson. 
 
 J| N battle or business, whatever the game, 
 
 In law or in love, it’s ever the same; 
 
 In your struggle for power or scramble for pelf, 
 
 Let this be your motto: “Rely on yourself.” 
 
 —John G . Saxe. 
 
 ERCEPTION and action; a quick eye and clear vision; 
 a vigorous right arm and a deft hand—these are the 
 masters of success in any and in every pursuit. 
 
 —Orison Swett Mardeti. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 £|f^ ANY men owe the giandeur of their lives to their tre¬ 
 
 mendous difficulties. 
 
 — Spurgeon . 
 
 i< 2Zlt HATEVER is right to do should be done with our 
 best care, strength, and faithfulness of purpose; we 
 have no scales by which we can weigh our faithfulness to 
 duties, or determine their relative importance in God’s eyes. 
 That which seems a trifle to us may be the secret spring 
 which shall move the issues of life and death. 
 
 ^JtDISON, when recently asked his definition of genius, 
 answered: “Two per cent, is genius and ninety-eight 
 per cent, is hard work.” And when the great inventor was 
 asked on another occasion: “Mr. Edison, don’t you believe 
 that genius is inspiration?” he replied, “No! Genius is 
 perspiration” 
 
 N the world’s broad field of battle, 
 
 In the bivouac of life, 
 
 Be not like dumb driven cattle— 
 
 Be a hero in the strife. 
 
 — Longfellow . 
 
 m E lose vigor through thinking continually the same 
 set of thoughts. New thought is new life. 
 
 —Prentice Mulford. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 JL OVE is the purification of the heart from self; it strength¬ 
 ens and ennobles the character, gives higher motives 
 and a nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both 
 man and woman strong, noble and courageous. 
 
 —Miss Jewsbury. 
 
 % EMPERANCE is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly 
 is more like a god than like a man. 
 
 —Charles Burton . 
 
 AN is his own star, and the soul that can be honest is 
 the only perfect man. —John Fletcher . 
 
 AKE the weather as it comes; growling at the sky is 
 very poor and unprofitable business.” 
 
 
 
 % HERE is no surer test of integrity than a well-pro¬ 
 portioned expenditure.” 
 
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 HOPE I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to 
 maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, 
 the character of an honest man. —George Washington. 
 
 * * (U? OD will never leave you without light enough to take 
 one step. Don't stop walking till the light gives out.” 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 m ITH aching hands and bleeding feet 
 
 We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; 
 
 We bear the burden and the heat of the long day 
 And wish 'twere done. 
 
 Not till the hour of light return 
 All we have built do we discern. 
 
 —Matthew Arnold . 
 
 PITY no man because he has no work. If he ?s worth 
 his salt, he will work. I envy the man who has a work 
 worth doing, and does it well. —Theodore Roosevelt. 
 
 “m HAT we call a turning point is simply an occasion 
 which sums up and brings to a result previous 
 training. Accidental circumstances are nothing except to 
 men who have been trained to take advantage of them.” 
 
 B OOKS are the legacies that a great genius leaves to 
 mankind, which are delivered down from generation 
 to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are 
 yet unborn. —Joseph Addison. 
 
 B EGIN, live, aspire, realize the best ideal of the moment; 
 
 and this earnest effort shall lead the way to greater 
 achievement. 
 
 — H. W. Dresser . 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 2l LL _ common things, each day’s events, 
 
 That with the hour begin and end. 
 
 Our pleasures and our discontents, 
 
 Are rounds by which we may ascend. 
 
 —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . 
 
 F YOU want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, 
 you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for 
 it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not 
 by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love 
 work, his life is a happy one. — Ruskin. 
 
 % HE race is won! As victor I am hailed 
 
 With deafening cheers from eager throats, and yet 
 Gladder the victory could I forget 
 The strained, white faces of the men who failed. 
 
 —Julia Shayer. 
 
 jSjJ^PEAK gently! ’tis a little thing, 
 
 Dropped in the heart’s deep well. 
 
 The good, the joy that it may bring 
 Eternity shall tell. 
 
 —John Langford. 
 
 
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 J^IFE is full of golden opportunities for doing what we 
 do not want to do.” 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 N WINTER, when the trees are bare, 
 
 And frost flies in the biting air, 
 
 He hears the echoes, far away, 
 
 Of songs the birds will sing in May; 
 
 To him is borne, in wintry hours, 
 
 The redolence of sleeping flowers,— 
 
 The optimist. —/. H. Lowe. 
 
 J| LOOK upon that man as happy, who, when there is a 
 question of success, looks into his work for a reply; not 
 into the market, not into opinion, not into patronage. Work 
 is victory. You want but one verdict; if you have your own, 
 you are secure of the rest. — Emerson. 
 
 -COO often he who is impatient to become his own mas¬ 
 ter, when the outward decks are removed, becomes 
 his own slave.” 
 
 % 
 
 GAY, serene spirit is the source of all that is noble and 
 good. 
 
 —Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller. 
 
 
 c HE old year is fast slipping back behind us. We can¬ 
 not stay it if we would. We must go on and leave 
 our past. Let us go forth nobly. Let us go as those whom 
 greater thoughts and greater deeds await beyond. 
 
 —Phillips Brooks. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 * nurse opportunity too long—take it into active 
 
 partnership with you at once, lest it leave you for 
 other company/' 
 
 EOPLE have got to work. It is creditable for them to 
 ' do so; their bodies and their minds are benefited by it, 
 and those who can and will work will be advanced by it. 
 
 —Robert E. Lee. 
 
 J IFE is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of 
 little things in which smiles and kindness and small 
 obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the 
 heart and secure comfort. —Sir Humphrey Davy. 
 
 ® E SURE to live on the sunny side, and even then do not 
 expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear 
 gray-brown glasses. — Chas. H. Eliot. 
 
 N ALL things throughout the world, the man who looks 
 for the crooked will see the crooked, and the man who 
 looks for the straight will see the straight. — Ruskin . 
 
 fij^ELE-CONTROL, I say, is the root virtue of all virtues. 
 It is at the very center of character. 
 
 —Henry Churchill King . 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 % 0 recognize opportunity when it comes, to make the 
 highest use of it when it is not to be recognized at 
 the moment, involves constant enrichment and education of 
 the whole nature. — Hamilton Wright Mabie. 
 
 
 OTHER! how much there is in that word! if there is 
 one earthly blessing for which more than another 
 I feel thankful it is that she is still spared to me to whom 
 I can apply that endearing name. 
 
 —John Greenleaf Whittier . 
 
 % 
 
 HEN that I was and a little tiny boy, 
 
 With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, 
 
 A foolish thing was but a toy, 
 
 For the rain it raineth every day. 
 
 Twelfth Night , Act. v. Sc. i. 
 
 — Shakespeare. 
 
 
 N ALL God's creation there is no place appointed for 
 the idle man. — Gladstone . 
 
 T IS NOT the reading of many books which is necessary 
 to make a man wise or good, but the well reading of a 
 few, could he be sure to have the best. 
 
 —Richard Baxter . 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 (J^NDEAVOR to be patient in bearing the defects and in¬ 
 firmities of others, of what sort soever they be; for 
 thou thyself also hast many failings which must be borne 
 with by others. —Thomas A. Kempis. 
 
 JL et us have faith that right makes might, and in that 
 fact let us to the end dare to do our duty as we under¬ 
 stand it —Abraham Lincoln 
 
 4 4 J NSTEAD of wishing that all men were of our mind, 
 we should account it one of the first blessings of 
 life that there are men who do not agree with us. The cur¬ 
 rents of sea and air are not more necessary than the cur¬ 
 rents of thought” 
 
 JJesolve to do a little reading every day, if it is but 
 a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, 
 it will make itself felt at the end of the year. 
 
 —Horace Mann. 
 
 1 E WHO, forgetting self, makes the object of his life 
 service, helpfulness and kindness to others, finds his 
 whole nature growing and expanding, himself becoming 
 large-hearted, magnanimous, kind, sympathetic, joyous and 
 happy; his life becoming rich and beautiful. 
 
 —Ralph Waldo Trine. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 m E LEAD but one life here on earth, we must make 
 that beautiful. And to do this, health and elasticity 
 of mind are needful; and whatever endangers or impedes 
 these must be avoided. — Longfellow . 
 
 f 
 
 IRST make your arrangements, then trust in heaven; 
 and in no case worry. — Prof . Jowett. 
 
 m E never know for what God is preparing us in his 
 schools, for what work on earth, for what work in 
 the hereafter. Our business is to do our work well in the 
 present place, whatever that may be. — Lyman Abbott. 
 
 iZ'ja* 
 
 m RITE it on your heart that every day is the best day 
 of the year. — Emerson. 
 
 N ALL ages man has been stimulated to sowing by the 
 certainty of reaping. Tomorrow’s sheaves and shout¬ 
 ings support today’s tearful sowing. Certainty of victory 
 wins battles before they are fought. 
 
 —Newell Dwight Hillis. 
 
 % HE man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treason, 
 stratagem, and spoils, but his whole life is already a 
 treason and a stratagem. — Thomas Carlyle. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 X YOUNG man cannot honestly make a success in any 
 business unless he loves his work, any more than a 
 married man can be happy in his home unless he loves his 
 wife. —Edward Bok. 
 
 KK 
 
 “j* IS said that every word whispered into the air starts 
 vibrations which will quiver on and on forever in 
 space. The same is true also of influences which go out 
 from our lives in the commonest ways—they will go on 
 forever.” 
 
 KK 
 
 EXPECT to pass through this life but once. If, there¬ 
 fore, there is any kindness I can show, or any good I 
 can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, let me not 
 defer it, for I shall not pass this way again. 
 
 — Mrs. A. B. Hegeman. 
 
 KJ4 
 
 EMEMBER that every man at times stumbles and must 
 be helped up; if he’s down, you cannot carry him. The 
 only way in which any man can be helped permanently is 
 to help himself. —Theodore Roosevelt. 
 
 ^HERE is great danger in constant dissatisfaction. Sooner 
 or later, it will involve the health, or finances, or both, 
 for it destroys the mental balance, and impairs the judgment. 
 
 — C. B. Newcomb . 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 %o HOLD one’s self in readiness for opportunity, to 
 keep the serene, confident, hopeful, and joyful energy 
 of mind, is to magnetize it, and draw privileges and power 
 toward one. The concern is not whether opportunity will 
 present itself, but as to whether we will be ready for the 
 opportunity. It comes not to doubt and denial and disbe¬ 
 lief. It comes to sunny expectation, eager purpose, and to 
 noble and generous aspiration. —Lilian Whiting. 
 
 » ET us beware of losing our enthusiasm. Let us glory 
 in something, and strive to retain our admiration for 
 all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would 
 enrich and beautify our life. 
 
 —Phillips Brooks. 
 
 F WE neglect to exercise any talent, power, or quality 
 it soon falls away from us. —Henry Wood. 
 
 J]+)EVER depend upon your genius; if you have talent, in¬ 
 dustry will improve it; if you have none, industry 
 will supply the deficiency. —John Ruskin. 
 
 % HE secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and 
 sympathy. — Emerson. 
 
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>CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 UT, oh, forget not, while you pray, 
 
 To push with all your might! 
 
 The least of you can push a pound, 
 
 And thus can speed the right/' 
 
 KK 
 
 HE mountain top must be reached no matter how many, 
 times we fall in reaching it. The fall is not counted, 
 it does not register; the picking up and going on counts in 
 life. —Flora Howard. 
 
 2>.0 THOROUGHLY whatever work God may give you 
 to do, and cultivate all your talents besides. 
 
 —Archibald A. Hodge. 
 
 E WHO meets life as though it meant something worth 
 finding out, and who expresses his best self, is the 
 one who has the permanent basis of happiness. 
 
 — H. W. Dresser. 
 
 jjJ AM surprised that intelligent men do not see the im¬ 
 mense value of good temper in their homes; and am 
 amazed that they will take such pains to have costly houses 
 and bile furniture, and yet sometimes neglect to bring home 
 with them good temper. 
 
 —Theodore Parker. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 Y OWN experience and development deepens every 
 day my conviction that our moral progress may be 
 measured by the degree in which we sympathize with indi¬ 
 vidual suffering and individual joy. — George Eliot . 
 
 F what shone afar so grand 
 turned to ashes in the hand; 
 
 On again, the virtue lies 
 In the struggle, not the prize.” 
 
 20E YOU only whole and sufficient, and I shall feel you 
 in every part of my life and fortune, and I can as 
 easily dodge the gravitation of the globe as escape your in¬ 
 fluence. — Emerson. 
 
 **J|^OTHING is so contagious as enthusiasm. It is the 
 real allegory of the fable of Orpheus; it moves stones 
 and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth 
 accomplishes no victories without it.” 
 
 CONFIDENCE imparts a wonderful inspiration to its 
 possessor. — John Milton. 
 
 ONE is useless in this world who lightens the burden 
 of it to anyone else. — Dickens. 
 
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fcHEERY IDEALS 
 
 HE power which resided in an individual is new in 
 nature, and none but he knows what this is which he 
 can do, nor does he know until he has tried. 
 
 — Emerson. 
 
 
 EAL knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to 
 be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, 
 thought for, and, more than all, must be prayed for. 
 
 —Thomas Arnold. 
 
 JLet joy, temperance and repose 
 
 Slam the door on the doctor’s nose. 
 
 — Longfellow . 
 
 
 m UILD thee more stately mansions, O my soul, 
 
 As the swift seasons roll! 
 
 Leave thy low-vaulted past! 
 
 Let each new temple, nobler than the last, 
 
 Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, 
 
 Till thou at length art free; 
 
 Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea. 
 
 —Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
 
 c HE highest point of achievement of yesterday is the 
 starting point of today. 
 
 —Motto of Paulist Fathers. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 OBODY has any right to find life uninteresting or un¬ 
 rewarding who sees within the sphere of his own 
 activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself 
 an evil he can hope to overcome. 
 
 — Chas. H. Eliot. 
 
 ARE born to grow—this is the world which religion, 
 philosophy, literature, and art ceaselessly utter; and 
 we can grow only by keeping ourselves in vital communion 
 with the world within and without us. 
 
 —John Lancaster Spalding . 
 
 JL et nothing disturb thee, 
 
 Nothing afright thee; 
 
 All things are passing; 
 
 God never changeth; 
 
 Patient endurance 
 Attaineth to all things; 
 
 Who God possesseth 
 In nothing is wanting; 
 
 Alone God sufficeth. 
 
 — Longfellow . 
 
 X SUNNY dispositon is the very soul of success, enabling 
 a man to do double the labor that he could without it, 
 and to do it with half the physical and mental exhaustion. 
 
 —William Mathews. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 HARACTER is in the long run the decisve factor in 
 the life of individuals and of nations alike. 
 
 —Theodore Roosevelt, 
 
 m HEN a fellow knows his business, he doesn't have to 
 explain to people that he does. It isn’t what a man 
 knows, but what he thinks he knows that he brags about. 
 Big talk means little knowledge. 
 
 —George Horace Lorimer . 
 
 
 HOW me a man who has benefited the world by his 
 wisdom, or his country by his patriotism, or his neigh¬ 
 borhood by his philanthropy, and you show me a man who 
 has made the best of every minute. 
 
 —Orison Swett Marden. 
 
 
 Y FRIENDS have come to me unsought, the great God 
 gave them to me. — Emerson. 
 
 
 m OULDST shape a noble life? Then cast 
 No backward glances toward the past, 
 
 And though somewhat be lost and gone, 
 
 Yet do thou act as one new-born; 
 
 What each day needs, that shalt thou ask, 
 
 Each day will set its proper task. 
 
 — Goethe. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 - 
 
 1 HERE is one thing that is almost as sacred as the 
 marriage relation—that is an appointment. A man who 
 fails to meet his appointment, unless he has a good reason, 
 is practically a liar, and the world treats him as such. 
 
 —Orison Swett Mar den. 
 
 ®HE secret of success lies in embracing every opportunity 
 of seeking high and right ends, and in never forget¬ 
 ting the golden rule of catechism, “Doing your duty in that 
 station of life to which it shall please God to call you.” 
 
 —Duke of Wellington. 
 
 is^si 
 
 EVER give up; there are chances and changes 
 Helping the hopeful, a hundred to one; 
 
 And, through the chaos, high wisdom arranges 
 Ever success, if you’ll only hold on.” 
 
 a m ETTER be conceited, and know something than be 
 humble in ignorance.” 
 
 ll^IGH thoughts and noble in all lands 
 Help me; my soul is fed by such. 
 
 But ah, the touch of life and hands, 
 
 The human touch! 
 
 Warm, vital, close, life’s symbols dear, 
 
 These need I most, and now, and here. 
 
 —Richard Burton. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 EW occasions teach new duties; 
 
 Time makes ancient good uncouth; 
 
 They must upward still, and onward, 
 
 Who would keep abreast of truth. 
 
 —James Russell Lowell 
 
 OR deem the irrevocable past 
 As wholly wasted, wholly vain, 
 
 If rising on its wreck, at last, 
 
 To something nobler we attain. 
 
 — Longfellow . 
 
 Sg) O I will trudge with heart elate, 
 
 And feet with courage shod, 
 
 For that which men call chance and fate 
 Is the handiwork of God. 
 
 —Alice Cary . 
 
 IMS* 
 
 VERY good and commanding movement in the annals 
 ^ of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing 
 great was ever accomplished without it.— Emerson. 
 
 1S*)S* 
 
 OSTER in the home the spirit of enthusiasm, good¬ 
 will, and progress, and the enterprises of the world 
 will knock unbidden at the door.” 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 C HERE are people who go about the world looking for 
 slights and they are necessarily miserable, for they find 
 them at every turn.— Drummond . 
 
 m HAT a man is inwardly that to him will the world be 
 outwardly: his mood affects the very “quality of the 
 day .”—Bradford Toney, 
 
 “a MAN'S success in life is usualy in proportion to his 
 confidence in himself, and the energy and persistence 
 with which he pursues his aim.” 
 
 % HE making of friends, who are real friends, is the best 
 token we have of a man's success in life. 
 
 —Edward Everett Hale. 
 
 %> O long as we love, we serve. So long as we are loved by 
 others I would almost say we are indispensable; and no 
 man is useless while he has a friend. 
 
 —Robert Louis Stevenson . 
 
 2JCCUSTOM yourself to master and overcome things of 
 difficulty; for if you observe—the left hand for want of 
 practice is insignificant—and not adapted to general business; 
 yet it holds the bridle better than the right—from constant 
 use.— Pliny. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 JB 
 
 [♦I O man ever found a happy life by chance, or yawned it 
 into being with a wish .—Robert Cecil. 
 
 iCK 
 
 ^J^AY, if you come to that, best love of all 
 
 Is God's; then why not have God’s love befall 
 Myself? —Robert Browning. 
 
 EPUTATION is in itself only a farthing candle, of wav¬ 
 ering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out; but it 
 is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. 
 
 — Lowell. 
 
 t^HE nerve that never relaxes, the eye that neyer blanches, 
 the thought that never wanders—these are the masters 
 of victory .—Edmund Burke. 
 
 I SHOULD count myself fortunate if my home were re~ 
 remembered for some inspiring quality of faith, charity, 
 and aspiring intelligence .—Hamilton Wright Mabie. 
 
 LL * 
 
 F all bad habits, despondency is among the least re¬ 
 spectable, and there is no one quite so tiresome as 
 the sad-visaged Christian, who is oppressed by the wickedness 
 and hopelessness of the world.” 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 X LL service ranks the same with God— 
 
 There is no last or first. 
 
 —Robert Browning. 
 
 HE common problem, yours, mine, every one’s. 
 
 Is not to fancy what were fair in life, 
 
 Provided it could be—but finding first 
 
 What may be, then find how to make it fair 
 
 Up to our means. — Browning. 
 
 || F I were to be asked what is the great want of English 
 society—to mingle class with class—I would say in a 
 word the want is the want of sympathy. 
 
 —Thomas N. Talfourd . 
 
 > E thou the rainbow to the storms of life! 
 
 The evening beam that smiles the clouds away 
 And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray. 
 
 * — Byron. 
 
 % HE man who is capable of generating enthusiasm can't 
 be whipped.— Edward Bulwer. 
 
 jj N the long run a man becomes what he purposes, and 
 gains for himself w r hat he really desires. 
 
 —Hamilton Wright Mabie. 
 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 RIENDSHIP requires that rare mean between betwixt 
 likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the pres¬ 
 ence of power and of consent in the other party. 
 
 — Emerson . 
 
 iCM* 
 
 2D IE when I may, I want it said of me, by those who know 
 me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a 
 flower when I thought a flower would grow. 
 
 —Abraham Lincoln . 
 
 HERE is no preservative and antiseptic, nothing that 
 keeps one's heart young like sympathy, like giving one’s 
 self with enthusiasm to some worthy thing or cause. 
 
 —John Burroughs. 
 
 AIL! Fail! 
 
 In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves 
 For a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. 
 
 —Bulwer Lytton. 
 
 2fl3 LESSED are they who have the gift of making friends, 
 for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many 
 things, but, above all, the power of going out of one’s self 
 and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in 
 another .—Thomas Hughes. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 E true to right; let justice still 
 Her even balance claim; 
 Unawed, unbribed, through good or ill 
 Make rectitude your aim.” 
 
 WOULD rather be right than be President. 
 
 —Henry Clay . 
 
 C HE TEST of friendship is its fidelity when every charm 
 of fortune and environment has been swept away, and 
 the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds 
 steadfast, and the joy of companionship still survives, in 
 such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophet 
 of immortality. 
 
 —Hamilton Wright Mabie . 
 
 *4 
 
 %0 live on, even when life seems a failure and the com¬ 
 forts of life are gone; to count patient living the 
 real living, with or without comfort—that is to be truly 
 brave. —Phillips Brooks. 
 
 
 “3Let every man, 
 under his roof 
 family to some social library, 
 be sacrificed to this.” 
 
 if possible, gather some good books 
 and obtain access for himself and 
 Almost every luxury should 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 ®he question for each man to settle is not what he would 
 do if he had the means, time, influence and educational 
 advantages; the question is what will he do with the things 
 he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to 
 bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his con¬ 
 ditions in the face, and resolves to chance them, he lays the 
 corner-stone of a solid and honorable success. 
 
 —Hamilton Wright Mahie. 
 
 GAMBLING. 
 
 % HIS is a vice which is productive of every possible evil, 
 equally injurious to the morals and health of its 
 votaries. It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and 
 the father of mischief. —George Washington. 
 
 2L LL the genius I have lies just in this: When I have a 
 subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night 
 it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings; my mind 
 becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I make 
 the people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the 
 fruit of labor and thought. —Alexander Hamilton. 
 
 F a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances 
 ' through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, 
 sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair. 
 
 — Dr. Johnson. 
 
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 CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 UCCESS in life depends far more upon decision of 
 character than upon the possession of what is called 
 genius. The man who is perpetually hesitating as to which 
 of two things he will do, will do neither. 
 
 —William Wirt . 
 
 ERTAIN it is, that the best passport to society a young- 
 man can have, next to a clean character, is the pos¬ 
 session of fine manners. —Mary A. Livermore . 
 
 I ET yourself earnestly to see what you were made to do, 
 and then set yourself earnestly to do it; and the 
 loftier your purpose is the more sure you will be to make 
 the world richer with every enrichment of yourself. 
 
 —Phillips Brooks. 
 
 iD OU may be great, you may be good, 
 
 You may be noble, more or less; 
 
 But all that will be understood 
 
 Will be your tangible success. 
 
 —Robert Burns. 
 
 
 u 
 
 UCCESS is not measured by what a man accomplishes, 
 but by the opposition he has encountered and the 
 courage with which he maintained the struggle against over¬ 
 whelming odds.” 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 2^ HO is the honest man? 
 
 He that doth still and strongly good pursue, 
 
 To God, his neighbor and himself most true, 
 Whom neither force nor fawning can 
 
 Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due. 
 
 —George Herbert. 
 
 “tC HE wind never blows fair for that sailor who knows 
 not to what port he is bound.” 
 
 {£rue mastery is compact of supreme qualities. It is 
 heroism; it is culture; it is intelligence; it is en¬ 
 durance; it is unconquerable will! 
 
 —James Thomas Fields . 
 
 jaUMILlTY is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming 
 in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, 
 of all, the greatest quality of true manliness. 
 
 —Louis Kossuth. 
 
 FRIVOLOUS word, a sharp retort, 
 
 A flash from a passing cloud, 
 
 Two hearts are scathed to their inmost core, 
 Are ashes and dust forever more; 
 
 Two faces turn to the crowd, 
 
 Masked by pride with a life-long lie, 
 
 To hide the scars of that agony” 
 
CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 & OVE contains no complete and lasting happiness save 
 in the transparent atmosphere of perfect sincerity. 
 
 —Maurice Maeterlinck. 
 
 
 
 that is choice of his time will be choice of his com¬ 
 pany and choice of his actions. 
 
 —Jeremy Taylor . 
 
 
 % O LIVE content with small means—to seek elegance 
 rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, 
 to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich—to 
 study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen 
 to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart—to 
 bear all cheerfully—do all bravely, await occasions—never 
 hurry; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and un¬ 
 conscious grow up through the common. This is to be my 
 symphony. — William Ellery Cbanning. 
 
 X BOOK is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It 
 will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will 
 keep still when you want it to keep still—and there are not 
 many friends who know enough to do that. A library is 
 a collection of friends. — Lyman Abbott . 
 
 ESTERDAY’S successes belong to yesterday with all yes¬ 
 terday’s defeats and sorrows. The day is Here. The 
 time is Now. —Elbert Hubbard. 
 
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CHEEKY IDEALS 
 
 Immortality will come to such as are fit for it; and 
 he who would be a great soul in the future must be a 
 great soul now. — Emerson. 
 
 X S O'ER glacier's frozen sheet 
 
 Breathes soft the Alpine rose, 
 
 So through life's desert springing sweet. 
 
 The flower of Friendship grows. 
 
 —Oliver Wendell Holmes ., 
 
 (J^OURAGE, moreover, is the presage of success; to believe 
 in one's self and one's power is always half the battle. 
 
 —;William J. Tilley. 
 
 “a NAMBY-PAMBY, nerveless man has little show in 
 the hustling, bustling world of to-day. In the twen¬ 
 tieth century a man must either push or be pushed." 
 
 ****** 
 
 “ jaAPPINESS does not depend on money or leisure, or 
 society, or even on health; it depends on our relation 
 to those we love." 
 
 % O TRAVEL hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, 
 and the true success if to labor. 
 
 —Robert Louis Stevenson. 
 
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CHEEKY IDEALS 
 
 Resolve to cultivate a cheerful spirit, a smiling counte¬ 
 nance and a soothing voice. The sweet smile, the sub¬ 
 dued speech, the hopeful mind are earth’s most potent con- 
 querers, and he who cultivates them becomes a very master 
 among men .—Elbert Hubbard. 
 
 A PRAYER 
 
 0 POWERS That Be, make me sufficient to my own occa¬ 
 sions. Teach me to know and to observe the Rules of 
 the game. Give me to mind my own business at all times and 
 to lose no good opportunity of holding my tongue. Let me 
 never lack proper pride or a due sense of humor. Preserve, 
 oh, preserve me from growing stodgy and unimaginative. 
 
 Plelp me not to cry for the moon, or over spilled milk; to 
 manage my physical constitution and my practical affairs dis¬ 
 creetly; never to dramatize my spirtual discomforts. 
 
 Grant me neither to proffer nor to welcome cheap praise; 
 to distinguish sharply between sentiment and sentimentality, 
 cleaving to the one and despising the other. 
 
 Deliver me from emotional excess. Deliver me from 
 atrophy of the emotions. 
 
 When it is appointed me to suffer, let me, so far as hu¬ 
 manely may be possible, take example from the dear, well- 
 bred beasts, and go away quietly to bear my suffering by 
 myself. 
 
 Let me not dwell in the outer whirlwind of things and 
 events; guide me, rather, to the Central Calm, and grant that 
 I may abide therein. Give me, nevertheless, to be always 
 a good comrade, and to view the passing show with an eye 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 constantly growing keener, a charity broadening and deepen¬ 
 ing day by day. 
 
 Help me to win, if win I may; but—and this, Oh Powers, 
 especialy—if I may not win, make me a good loser. 
 
 Vouchsafe me not to estrange the other me at my elbow; 
 suffer not my primal light to wane; and grant that I may 
 carry my cup brimming, yet unspilled, to the last. Amen. 
 
 —Eliza Atkins Stone (From “Life”) 
 
 ELEGY. 
 
 « H SNATCH’D away in beauty’s bloom! 
 
 On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; 
 
 But on thy turf shall roses rear 
 Their leaves, the earliest of the year, 
 
 And the wild cypress wave in tender gloom; 
 
 And oft by yon blue gushing stream 
 Shall Sorrow lean her drooping head, 
 
 And feed deep thought with many a dream, 
 
 And lingering pause and lightly tread; 
 
 Fond wretch! as if her step disturb’d the 
 dead! 
 
 Away! we know that tears are vain, 
 
 That Death nor heeds nor hears distress; 
 
 Will this unteach us to complain? 
 
 Or make one mourner weep the less? 
 
 And thou, who tell’st me to forget, 
 
 Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet. 
 
 —Lord Byron . 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 RETRIBUTION. 
 
 HOUGH the mills of God grind slowly, 
 yet they grind'.exceedingly small; 
 Though with patience he stands waiting, 
 with exactness grinds he all. 
 
 From the German of F. Von Logau. 
 Translation of H. W . Longfellow. 
 
 2> ID you tackle that trouble that came your way 
 With a resolute heart and cheerful; 
 
 Or hide your face from the light of day 
 With a craven soul and fearful? 
 
 Oh, a trouble’s a ton or a trouble’s an ounce, 
 
 Or a trouble is what you make it— 
 
 And it isn’t the fact that you’re hurt that counts, 
 But only how did you take it? 
 
 You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what’s that? 
 
 Come up with a smiling face. 
 
 It’s nothing against you to fall down flat; 
 
 But to lie there—that’s disgrace. 
 
 The harder you’re thrown, why the higher you’ll bounce; 
 
 Be proud of your blackened eye; 
 
 It isn’t the fact that you’re licked that counts, 
 
 It’s how did you fight, and why? 
 
 And tho you be done to the death, what then? / 
 
 If you battled the best you could, 
 
 If you played your part in the world of men. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 Why the Critic will call it good. 
 
 Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a bounce; 
 
 And whether he’s slow or spry, 
 
 Jt isn’t the fact that you’re dead that counts, 
 
 But only, how did you die? 
 
 jF AILURE is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch 
 as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek 
 earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience 
 points out some form of error which we shall afterward 
 carefully avoid. — John Keats. 
 
 
 m ECAUSE you loved me, I have much achieved; 
 
 Had you despised me, then I must have failed; 
 
 But knowing that you trusted and believed, 
 
 X ^ared not disappoint, and so prevailed. 
 
 —Paul Lawrence Dunbar. 
 
 i, m E call him strong who stands unmoved,— 
 Calm as some tempest-beaten rock— 
 
 When some great trouble hurls its shock; 
 
 We say of him, ‘His strength is proved’; 
 
 But when the spent storm folds its wings, 
 How bears he then life’s little things?” 
 
 “Jf* NOWLEDGE is power” 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 HE recollection of a friend we admire, is a great force 
 to save us from evil and to prompt us to good. 
 
 — Black. 
 
 EVER tell evil of a man if you do not know it for a 
 certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask 
 yourself, “Why should I tell it?” 
 
 *— Lavater. 
 
 IMS* 
 
 VERY small river will carry a good deal of water to 
 sea—if it keep running.” 
 
 i> UCCESS in life is a matter not so much of talent or 
 opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. 
 
 — Chas. IV. Wendtc. 
 
 |J%E prayeth best who loveth best 
 
 All things both great and small; 
 
 For the dear God, who loveth us, 
 
 He made and loveth all. 
 
 —Samuel T. Coleridge. 
 
 % 
 
 5k 
 
 HE nearer you come into relation with a person, the 
 more necessary do tact and courtesy become. 
 
 —H o lines. 
 
CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 % HE best of men and the most earnest workers will make 
 enough mistakes to make them humble. Thank God 
 for mistakes and take courage. Don't give up on account of 
 mistakes .—Dwight L. Moody. 
 
 IMS* 
 
 “J^ET us grow out of the idea that because we do some 
 one a favor or render him a service, that he is 
 therefore under some transcendent obligation to us. Let us 
 recognize the truth—that it is we who are obliged if he will 
 permit us to do him a favor” 
 
 IMS* 
 
 AVE faith in nothing but in industry, 
 
 Be at it late and early, persevere, 
 
 And work right on, through censure and applause. 
 
 —Henry IVadsworth Longfellow . 
 
 1£*tS* 
 
 C HERE is nothing so laborious as not to labor. Blessed 
 is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, 
 and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wis¬ 
 dom. — St. Augustine. 
 
 IMS* 
 
 XPERT men can execute, and perhaps judge of particu¬ 
 lars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the 
 plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who 
 are learned .—Lord Francis Bacon. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 II ET 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. —Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 ®HE mind has a thousand eyes, 
 And the heart but one; 
 
 Yet the light of a whole life dies 
 When love is done. 
 
 — F. W. Bourdillon. 
 
 
 C EACH me to feel another’s woe, 
 
 To hide the fault I see; 
 
 That mercy I to others show, 
 
 That mercy show to me. 
 
 —Alexander Pope . 
 
 jgO one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from 
 temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly 
 determined to do the best he can to keep out of it. 
 
 —John Ruskin. 
 
 
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 F you have gracious words to say 
 
 Oh, give them to our hearts to-day, 
 But if your words will cause us sorrow, 
 Pray keep them till the last to-morrow.” 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 AN may direct the intellect, but woman directs the heart. 
 
 —Samuel Smiles. 
 
 m HO conquers self—he is hero born; 
 
 His name may die, forgotten by his peers, 
 Be yet the seed he sowed in care and tears 
 Shall bear rich harvests through immortal years. 
 
 — F. A . Shazv. 
 
 SPIRE, break bounds! I say 
 Endeavor to be good, and better still, 
 And best! — Robert Brozvning. 
 
 ESOLVED, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, 
 month and year wherein I could possibly in any respect 
 have done better.— Jonathan Edwards. 
 
 ETER every storm the sun will smile; for every problem 
 there is a solution, and the sours indefensible duty is 
 to be of good cheer.— Wm. R. Alger. 
 
 % O educate the heart, one must be willing to go out of 
 himself and to come into loving contact with others. 
 
 —James Freeman Clarke. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 “J13 OR love nor honor, wealth nor power, 
 Can give the heart a cheerful hour, 
 When health is lost. Be timely wise; 
 
 With health all taste of pleasure flies.” 
 
 m E what thou seemst; live thy creed, 
 Hold up to earth the touch divine; 
 
 Be what thou prayest to be made; 
 
 Let the great Master's steps be thine. 
 
 —Horatio Bonar. 
 
 JL ET a man have but an aim, a purpose, and opportunities 
 to attain his end shall start forth like buds at the kiss 
 of spring .—John Lancaster Spalding. 
 
 K 
 
 ET ere we part, one lesson I can leave you 
 For every day .... 
 
 Be good .... 
 
 Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; 
 
 And so make life, death, and that vast forever 
 One grand sweet song. —Charles Kingsley. 
 
 m ESOLVE to perform what you ought; perform without 
 fail what you promise. —Benjamin Franklin. 
 
CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 % HE greatest success is confidence, or perfect understand¬ 
 ing between sincere people. — Emerson. 
 
 : N many a mountain fastness, 
 
 By many a river’s foam, 
 
 And through the gorgeous cities, 
 
 ’Twas loneliness to roam; 
 
 For the sweetest music in my heart 
 Was the olden song of home. 
 
 —Bayard Taylor . 
 
 WOULD not give a farthing for a man’s religion if his 
 dog and cat are not the better for it. 
 
 —Rowland Hill. 
 
 m E not simply good—be good for something. 
 
 — Thoreau. 
 
 *‘J9 OT everything that succeeds is success; a man may 
 make a million and be a failure still.” 
 
 
 C OME what wiH * 1 will keep my faith with friend and foe. 
 
 —Abraham Lincoln. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 a> ON’T flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to 
 say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer 
 you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do 
 tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which 
 are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from 
 his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. 
 
 — Holmes. 
 
 € HE only way to have a friend is to be one. 
 
 — Emerson . 
 
 
 Y friend, is one whom I can associate with my choicest 
 thoughts. — Thoreau. 
 
 F what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his 
 friends? — Stevenson. 
 
 LETTERS. 
 
 2 l VERY day brings a ship, 
 
 * Every ship brings a word; 
 
 Well, for those who have no fear, 
 Looking seaward well assured 
 That the word the vessel brings 
 Is the word they wish to hear. 
 
 —Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 3 ’ 
 
 THE SWEETS OF LOVE. 
 yHEN awake!—the heavens look bright, 
 my dear! 
 
 ’T is never too late for delight, my dear! 
 
 And the best of all ways 
 To lengthen our days, 
 
 Is to steal a few hours from the night, my 
 dear! 
 
 Young May Moon. — Moore. 
 
 real comforts of life cost but a small proportion of 
 what most of us can earn. — P. T. Barnum. 
 
 M GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, 
 and loving favor than silver and golcL — Bible. 
 
 
 ^.ELF-REVERENCE, self-knowledge, self-control; these 
 three alone lead life to sovereign power. 
 
 —Alfred Tennyson. 
 
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 T is surely much better to pardon too much than to con¬ 
 demn too much. — Geo. Eliot. 
 
 
 gTVOING right never hurt anybody; doing wrong always 
 does. — Garfield. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 who does not strive after something with eagerness, 
 finds everything burdensome and tedious. 
 
 —Lord Francis Bacon . 
 
 
 3 * 
 
 is only when good habits exist that principles can exert 
 an ennobling influence. — Aristotle . 
 
 
 JI^ever despair, but if you do, work in despair. 
 
 —Edmund Burke . 
 
 Everybody finds out, sooner or later, that all success 
 worth having is founded on Christian rules of conduct. 
 
 —H. M. Field. 
 
 
 X LITTLE learning is a dangerous thing, but it's not half 
 so risky as none at all. 
 
 m HAT do we live for If not to make the world less 
 difficult for each other? —George Eliot. 
 
 
 & RUTII and right are above utility in all realms of thought 
 and action. —Charles William Eliot. 
 
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CHEERY IDEALS 
 
 m HEN things first got to goin’ wrong with me, I says:' 
 
 “O Lord, whatever comes, keep me from gittin sour!” 
 Since then I’ve made it a practice to put all my worries down 
 in the bottom of my heart, then set on the lid an’ smile. 
 
 — Mrs. Wiggs . 
 
 OR a woman to be wise and at the same time womanly, 
 is to wield a tremendous influence which may be felt for 
 good in the lives of generations to come. 
 
 —David Starr Jordan. 
 
 OU cannot, in any given case, by any sudden and single 
 effort, will to be true, if the habit of your life has been 
 incerity. — F. W. Robertson . 
 
 i|7)0 one but yourself can make your life beautiful, no one 
 can be pure, honorable and loving for you. 
 
 — R. Miller. 
 
 yjT HE essence of friendship is entireness, a total mag* 
 
 nammity and trust. 
 
 — Emerson. 
 
 
 X FRIEND is a person with whom I may be sincere. 
 Before him, I may think aloud. — Emerson. 
 
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