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Show Evenness of Temper Means Long Life History Shows thnt Men of thel Grentost Genius Hnve Been I for the, Mon I'nft ChqorhjB end Contented. Cheerfulness Is an excellent wear-'ng wear-'ng quality It has been called tho bright weather of the hoart It gives harmou of soul, nnd Is a perpetual song without words It Is tantamount to repose It enables nature to recruit re-cruit Its strength, whereas worry and , discontent debilitate It. lnollng con-'. con-'. stnnt wear and tonr How Is It that i wo seo such men ni Lord I'almorston j growing old In hnrness working on t vigorous!) to the end' Mnlnly j through equanlmlt) of temper and bn-I bn-I bltual cheerfulness They lm edu-' edu-' caleil theinsohoH In the habit of en-I en-I durance of not lining ensll) prooked, of bearing and forebearliig, or boar-I boar-I Ing harsh nnd even unjust things said of them, without Indulging lu unditu l resentment, nnd avoiding wornlng, petty and self tormenting enres An Intimate friend of Lord Palmers-j Palmers-j ton, who obxerted him closely for i it , . 1 twenty jears, has said that be never saw blm angrj, with perhaps one exception, ex-ception, and that n as when tho mln-sTUTT-TOMOdsltilc- Kir tho oaLiuiliy otp Afghanistan, of vihlch he was one, was unjiistl) accused by their opponents oppon-ents of falsehood perjur) nnd wilful manipulation of public documents So far as can be learned from blogrnph), men of the greatest gonitis hnve been for the most part cheerful, contented inon not onger for reputntlon, monoy or power but relishing life, nnd keenly keen-ly susceptible of eno)inont, ns wo And in their works Such scorn to hno been Homer. Horace, Virgil. Montaigne Shakespeare and Cert an tes. Health), serene cheerfulness Is apparent In their great creations Among the same class of cheerful-minded cheerful-minded men nm) also bo mentioned Luther, Moore, Duron. Leonardo da Vlnrl. Raphael and Michael Angclo. Perhnps they were happy becnuso constantly occupied, nnd In tho pleas-nntest pleas-nntest of nil work that of creating out of tho fulness nnd richness of their great minds Washington Star. |