This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ... shall make your life a joy to yourself and to all who shall come within the zone of your influence. Do not fail to improve the moments because they are so few. The fewer there are the more the need of improving them. Do not procrastinate, do not put off, do not defer the work of selfimprovement till a more favorable ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ... shall make your life a joy to yourself and to all who shall come within the zone of your influence. Do not fail to improve the moments because they are so few. The fewer there are the more the need of improving them. Do not procrastinate, do not put off, do not defer the work of selfimprovement till a more favorable time. Know that with the coming of every opportunity you have a duty to perform. That you must help yourself whenever you can, and that you must DO IT NOW! If you have a task worth doing, Do it now! In delay there 's danger brewing, Do it now! CHAPTER VI CHEERFULNESS T ET us suppose that you must go into "-' partnership for life with some other boy, as the world is about to go into partnership with you, would you not wish him to have, first of all, a cheerful disposition? Has it ever occurred to you that the world entertains the same thought regarding yourself? It is easy to understand why a partnership, the members of which pleasantly pull together, is more likely to thrive than is one wherein they are always complaining of each other and sadly prophesying failure. The world, as your partner, will be toward you what you are toward it. Joy is not in things, it is in us.--Wagner. Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.--P. T. Barnum. Smile, once in a while, 'Twill make your heart seem lighter; Smile, once in a while, 'Twill make your pathway brighter; The day is immeasurably long to him who knows not how to value and use it.--Goethe. It is a maxim with me not to ask what, under similar circumstances, I would not grant.--Washington. Next to virtues, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.--Strickland. I resolved that, like the sun, so long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of every t...
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