Leaves of Gold
Doing VS. Dreaming – Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song. –Charles Kingsley.
GROWTH –All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intlectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is a prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.–Calvin Coolidge.
DISCIPLINE — Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, wheather you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in your temperance, self-control, and a hundred othr virtues which the idle never know. –Charles Kingsley.
REALITY–I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness. –Henry W. Longfellow.
GOALS–I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. –Goethe.
TROUBLE–Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. –Washington Irving.
DIFFICULTIES–Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.–Edward Howard Griggs.
BROKEN HOPES–As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refind out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.–F. W. Robertson.
MISFORTUNE–It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.–La Rochefoucauld.
LIFE is a long leason in humility. –James M. Barrie.
THE GREATEST SIN–Stanley Hall once called the great sin of maturity losing one’s zest for life.
BIRTHDAYS–Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. –Victor Hugo.
PERSPECTIVE–To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. –Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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