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


Copyright 1879
There lived in the West very wise powerful man. whose
son, just out of college, running newspaper
The in his early twenties complained bitterly his
father that he had frequently deal fools could
grasp idea
The father replied soemnly, You patient
with fools my There many of Them they form large
part of the population
IF you 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 to be patient with ools-and
especially with those that in majestic self conce
takeny THINK fools happens sometimes in this queer
world that the individual take for fool something quite
different.
All of looked at Newton the greatest mathema
can that lived said when boy
and always would be- He fussng in the sand instead of
doing something else They didn't know that he working
out mathematical problems in the dust with piece of stick
Nicholson of the University of Chicago of the greatest
living scientists and winner of the Nobel prize Annapolis
with other young gentlemen studying be fierce naval fighter
The other young gentlemen ricnsmed him Feeble Efforts
Nobody will remember any of THEM unless it is because
they Naval Academy WITH NICHOLSON He cor
rected mems knowledge the speed light and thus
rected all of distances space And incidental
y he is just concluding experiments testing the rgdy of the
earth which demonstrates the fact that this earth twice
rigid as it would be if made of solid steel
Interesting those that have brains
Let u.s. have said be patient FOOLS
also whenever possible let learn realize that
and not the other who is a fool-very often.
There fools in the worldmany of them millions them
But there only real kind of fool And he the
who is not patient free from self conce willing
The who will learn and who will be patient is
fool
Be patient with FOOLS for practcng patience
greatest possible value.
Genius is nothing but patience, AND POWER
The patience without the mental power produce
genius.
But the mental power matter how great
late itself into the work that call genius unless
infinite capacity for taking pains which patience
Be patient with FOOLS for they majority And we
must make living from the majority get applause from
the majority and win victories the majority
Be patient with fools dearly beloved wise men, because
this world would be uncomfortable for you men,
not so many fools in it.
There successful ninety out of one
hundred really successful BECAUSE NOBODY GAVE
THEM SERIOUS COMPETITION
You put finger the map and hit any town.
and find in it a prosperous, successful newspaper
GIVE 1T COMPETITION you see it in six months
And in the town, Main street you will find very
prosperous, successful merchant.
Give him the taste of such competition bigger man could
give hm-and might find him driving the bigger man
delivery wagon, if he hadn't saved up money
We succeed because the fools plentiful and easy
just the woodlands deep because the trees are plen
tiful soft and easy
Give the steel to cut and the story different and
the choppers will ache.
Take the fools the who they can succeed
without effort and life will harder more difficult prob
lem
Study the fool; be patient him. If 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 a fool
Your criticism should fool features vour
nature just the brutality of the Ages welded out
the fools and the drunkards from among the people