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Show The failure of one man is the opportunity of another. Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Every noble activity makes room for itself. Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. If you have a beautiful home keep it so; if not, make it so. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Much of the charity that begins at home is too feeble to get out of doors. The shame of being thought poor, leads to worse evils than poverty itself. Grumblers are a dismal class of people, sitting on the north side of the tree of life, peeling rotten apples with a rusty knife. Blessed is the man who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Know thy work and do it; and work at it like Hercules. One monster there is in the world-the idle man. No manly men will feel anything of shame in looking back to early struggles with adverse circumstances, and no man feels a worthier pride than when he has conquered the obstacles to his progress. Whether perfect happiness would be procured by perfect goodness this world will never afford an opportunity of deciding, but this, at least, may be maintained, that we do not always find visible happiness in proportion to visible virtue. |