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THE WORLD AS IT IS

T'S a gay old world when you're gay,
And a glad old world when you're glad,
But whether you play

Or go toiling away,

It's a sad old world when you're sad.

It's a grand old world if you're great,
And a mean old world if you're small;
It's a world full of hate

For the foolish who prate

Of the uselessness of it all.

It's a beautiful world to see,
Or it's dismal in every zone;
The thing it must be
In your gloom or your glee
Depends on yourself alone.

-S. E. Kiser.

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UT in the mud and scum of things
There always, always, something sings.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

OOKS like ever'thing in the world comes right if we jes
wait long enough.
-Mrs. Wiggs.

HERE has not been a single day since the world began when the sun was not shining. The trouble has been with our vision.

PRAYER AT MORNING

HE day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. -Robert Louis Stevenson.

PRAYER AT EVENING

HE service of the day is over, and the hour come to rest. We resign into Thy hands our sleeping bodies, our cold hearths and open doors. Give us to awake with smiles, give us to labor smiling. As the sun returns in the east, so let our patience be renewed with dawn; as the sun lightens the world, so let our loving-kindness make bright this house of our habitations. -Robert Louis Stevenson.

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OUR things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true:

To think without confusion clearly;
To love his fellow-men sincerely;
To act from honest motives purely;
To trust in God and heaven securely.

-Henry van Dyke.

ET out and do something-work, sweat, hike, hump yourself— starve if need be-but dig on and deliver. Then talk if you want to, but the chances are you won't feel so much like it. -James Howard Kehler.

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HEERINESS is a thing to be more profoundly grateful

for than all that genius ever inspired or talent ever accomplished. Next best to natural, spontaneous cheeriness, is deliberate, intended and persistent cheeriness, which we can create, can cultivate and can so foster and cherish that after a few years the world will never suspect that it was not an hereditary gift. -Helen Hunt Jackson.

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OY does not happen. It is the inevitable result of certain lines followed and laws obeyed and so a matter of character. -Maltbie D. Babcock.

BELIEVE in gittin' as much good outen life as you kinnot that I ever set out to look fer happiness; seems like the folks that does, never finds it. I jes' do the best I kin where the good Lord put me at, an' it looks like I got a happy feelin' in me 'most all the time. -Mrs. Wiggs.

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OAH was six hundred years old before he knew how to build an ark-don't lose your grip.

-Elbert Hubbard.

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AM only one,

But still I am one.

I cannot do everything,

But still I can do something;

And because I cannot do everything,

I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

-Edward Everett Hale.

JUST BE GLAD

H, HEART of mine, we shouldn't
Worry so!

What we've missed of calm we couldn't
Have, you know!

What we've met of stormy pain,

And of sorrow's driving rain,
We can better meet again
If it blow.

For we know, not every morrow
Can be sad;

So forgetting all the sorrow
We have had,

Let us fold away our fears,

And put by our foolish tears,

And through all the coming years

Just be glad.

-James Whitcomb Riley.

ENIUS is talent set on fire by courage. Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great. Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage and slavery. -Henry van Dyke.

ET into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and when you have found it, continue to look at it rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hated places. -A. A. W.

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T IS the great boon of such characters as Mr. Lincoln's that they re-unite what God has joined together and man has put asunder. In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness, and the goodness of real greatness.

-Philips Brooks.

E WHO goes down into the battle of life giving a smile for every frown, a cheery word for every cross one, and lending a helping hand to the unfortunate, is, after all, the best of missionaries.

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FOUR-LEAF CLOVERS

KNOW a place where the sun is like gold

And the cherry blooms burst forth with snow;

And down underneath is the loveliest nook,
Where the four-leaved clovers grow.

One leaf is for Hope, and one is for Faith,
And one is for Love, you know,

And God put another one in for Luck,

If you search you will find where they grow.

But you must have Hope, and you must have Faith,
You must love and be strong, and so

If you work, if you wait, you will find the place,
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.

HERE is only one way to be happy and that is to make

somebody else so.

-Sidney Smith.