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Show GREAT FOLK AND SMALL (By Marguerite Ogden Bigelow.) Small people are easily known when they are thoughtfully considered; but many great persons have lived without recognition; and there are great people peo-ple today, perhaps the greatest, everywhere, every-where, and among our friends, whom we do not sufficiently honor. By these things we may discover them: Great people are always laborers and small people usually are laborers, too; but the labor of small people is incidental, in-cidental, and for cash; the labor of great people is essential, and for a cause. Great people are always fighters, against the wrong, against stale and outworn custom; small people are often fighters, when they are massed against the great people. Great people are people of peace, who pick no quarrel save for righteousness sake; small people are people of peace who balk at a fight when the odds are against them. Great people are always lovers, of a friend and mate, of nation, of God; small people are often lovers of themselves. them-selves. Truly it is on this power of love that greatness rests; for any who loves great things sincerely is become a great person, per-son, and any who loves only little things will remain little. All small people may become great if they will; but the great soul cannot be dwarfed! |