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Title: How to be happy
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: (Frink, Maria Mrs.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Conduct of life
Publisher: Valparaiso, Ind., F. & M. Frink
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ut in despair: For Gods sake give me thewarm end of the plank! This illustrates the truth that 464 BE TRUE. there must be the warmth of sympathy if we expect tomove the intellect and will. Cold demonstrations donot reform men; icy sermons and lectures, howevergrammatically written or properly delivered, will fall asuseless as icicles on a stony pavement. Very proper,precise, and learned teachers are seldom useful. Theyshine, but the light that comes from them is like thesunshine reflected from an iceburg. There must beheat. BE TRUE. E true to every impulseWithin the upright soul,That pointeth toward duty—Like magnet to the pole. Be true to the affections, Wherever thou dost go.Free from the hearts deep fountains These gladning streams should flow. True to the souls monitions ; True to the hearts best love,To friendships, and to charities, To sordid self above. True to the land that bore thee, Loving its very sod ;Loyal unto thy country, Upright before thy God. — Mack Sterling. 405
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WINGS. W1MG3, If HAT matter it though life uncertain beJf; To all? What though its goalSTa Be never reached? What though it falland flee,Have we not each a soul ? A soul that quickly must arise and soar To regions far more pure—Arise and dwell where pain can be no more, And every joy is sure. Be like the bird that on the bough too frail To bear him, gayly swings ;Carols though the slender branches fail— He knows that he has wings. — Victor Hugo. fT is one thing to be true to principle when surround-ed by those who are upright, and quite another^ thing when others are immoral. Moreover, whenthe world seems to be against a man and the clouds hanglow—this is the time to test his true nobility of char-acter. A good many years ago in one of the southernstates a bright, active colored boy was offered for salein one of the slave markets. A gentleman taking pityon the lad determined to buy him and insure him kindtreatment. Before he bid for him, he said to the boy:If I buy you will yo

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