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Character and conduct : $b A book of helpful thoughts by great writers of past and present ages

Philosophy

Character and conduct : $b A book of helpful thoughts by great writers of past and present ages

Calendars; Meditations

"He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being
magnanimous."

                                                    _Amiel's Journal._

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first
overcome."

                                                          DR. JOHNSON.


Fear of Failure


FEBRUARY 25

"Extreme caution is no less harmful than its opposite."

                                                         VAUVENARGUES.

"The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of
standing by their own convictions."

                                                             GARFIELD.

  "Our doubts are traitors,
   And make us lose the good we oft might win,
   By fearing to attempt."

                                    SHAKESPEARE.

"IT is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to
half of the evils which we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly
listlessness for fear of what may happen."

                                                            HERODOTUS.


Falterers


FEBRUARY 26

  "Nay, never falter: no great deed is done
  By falterers who ask for certainty.
  No good is certain, but the steadfast mind,
  The undivided will to seek the good:
  'Tis that compels the elements, and wrings
  A human music from the indifferent air.
  The greatest gift the hero leaves his race
  Is to have been a hero. Say we fail!--
  We feed the high tradition of the world,
  And leave our spirit in our children's breasts."

                                      GEORGE ELIOT.

  "How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
  To rest unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
  As though to breathe were life."

                                          TENNYSON.

"After all, depend upon it, it is better to be worn out with work in a
thronged community, than to perish in inaction in a stagnant solitude:
take this truth into consideration whenever you get tired of work and
bustle."

                                   MRS. GASKELL'S _Life of C. Brontë_.


Courage


FEBRUARY 27

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in the world
without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour."

                                                    JAMES LANE ALLEN.

  "The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
   For that were stupid and irrational,
   But he whose noble soul its fear subdues
   And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from."

                                                       JOANNA BAILLIE.

"Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh--that is to
say, over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness,
of isolation, and of death. There is no serious piety without heroism.
Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage."

                                                    _Amiel's Journal._

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."

                                  EMERSON.


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