Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-30
Be Patient with FOOls===Tha
Is a Most Important Art
1t Were Not for "the Fools" the Wise Man Would Be Less
Prosperous. He Might Worry.
wright

Copyright 1879
There lived in the West very wise powerful man. whose
son, just out of college running newspaper
The in his early wenties, complained bitterly his
father that he had frequently deal with fools who could
grasp idea.
The father replied solemny to patient
with fools my There many them they large
part of the population.
If don't understand them, you can't understand the
population And my boy and might not be well off
are if there fewer fools in the world
There wisdom boiled down into few words readers
Take the wisdom to yourself and make it useful
Let ALL dearly beloved patient fools-and
especially with those that majestic self
akenly THINK fools happens sometimes in this queer
world that the individual take for fool something quite
different
All of those who looked Newton greatest
cian that lived said when he boy that he fool
and always would be- He fussng in the sand instead of
doing something else They didn't know that he working
out mathematical problems the dust with piece of stick
Nicholson of the University of Chicago Of the greatest
living scientists and of the prize Annapolis
with other young gentlemen studying be fierce naval fighter
The other young gentlemen nick named him Feeble Efforts
Nobody will remember any of THEM unless it is because
they the Naval Academy WITH NICHOLSON He
rected knowledge to the speed of light and thus
rected all of distances space And incidental
y he is just concluding experiments testing the rgidty of the
earth which demonstrates the fact that this earth is twice
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Interesting to those that have brains.
Let have said learn to be patient with FOOLS
Also whenever possible let realize
and not the other who is fool-very often.
There fools in the world of them millions them
But there is only real kind of fool And he the
who is patient free from econceit willing learn
The man who will learn and who will be patient
Be patient with fools pacticng patience alone is of the
greatest possible value
Genius is nothing but patience AND POWER.
The patience without the mental not produce
genius 4Eat
But the mental power great can not trans
late itself into the work that call genius has 1.-THE
infinite capacity for taking pains which patience
Be patient with fools for they the majority And we
must make living from the majority get applause
the majority and win victories the majority
Be patient with fools dearly beloved men, because
this world would be uncomfortable for YOU men, there
were not many fools in It.
There many successful men, nnetynn out of one
hundred are really successful BECAUSE NOBODY GAVE
THEM SERIOUS COMPETITION
You put your finger the map and hit any town.
and find in it prosperous, successful newspaper.
GIVE 1T COMPETITION and you it in six months
And in the town, Main street you find very
prosperous, successful merchant.
Give him the taste of such competition bigger man could
give hmand you might find him driving the bigger mans
delivery wagon, if he hadn't saved up money
We succeed because the fools plentiful soft and eav
just the woodlands deep the trees are pen
tful soft and easy
Give the steel to and the story be different and
the choppers arms will ache.
Take a+ay the fools the who think they can succeed
without effort and life will become harder difficult prob
lem.
Study the fool be patient with you know him Won
know more than half of the human race
And study yourself AND DON'T BE PATIENT WITH
YOURSELF and don't be afraid call yourself fool
Your criticism should the features of vour
own nature just the brutality of the Middle Ages welded ont
the fools and the drunkards from among the people
Never call your brother Raccah which means ..Tbo,,