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Show ' THOUGHTS. No man is. beaten until he admits it. No' in an is a.failure antil he. has lest his grip attd his self-respect. -When he loses these he is practically dead. There is a great difference between a wish and a dogged resolution, between desiring to do a thing and determining to do it. . If you talk poverty, think poverty, and act poverty long enough, you will be convinced that there is nothing but poverty for you. Ill qualities are contagious as well as disease; and the mind is at least as j much liable to infection as the body. . The test of beauty is that in its presence pres-ence you feel a sense of rest, of satisfaction, satis-faction, of poise, ot. comfort, of completeness com-pleteness ana of contentment. If you are considering taking any great risk on an investment, if you are in doubt as to whether you can quite afford a certain thing or not, talk it over with your wife. There is certainly something wrong in our social system when a man is compelled com-pelled to give all of his energies to the " bread-and-butter" question. The man who is never quite sure, "thinks, perhaps," "imagines." "guesses," or "presumes," is no man to trust. His foundations are built on sand. Success Magazine. |