Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-30
Be Patient with Fools That
Is a Most Important Art
If Were Not for "he Fools" the Wise Man Would Be Less
Prosperous He Night Worry
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Copyright. 1879

Copyright.
There lived in the West very WISE powerful man. whose
son just out of college, running newspaper
The in his early twenteS complained bitterly to his
father that he had frequently deal with fools who could
grasp idea
father replied soemny You learn be patient
with FOOLS my There many of them they form large
part of the population.
If you don't them you can't understand the
population And my boy you and might not be well off
we 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
us ALL dearly beloved learn be patient fools-and
especially with those that majestic seconce mis-
tskeny THINK fools happens sometimes in this queer
world that the individual take for fool something quite
different.
All those who looked at Newton the greatest mathema
tician said boy that a
and always would be- He fussng the sand instead of
doing something ese They didn't know that he working
mathematical problems with piece of stick
Nicholson of the University of Chicago of the greatest
living scientists and winner the Nobel prize Annapolis
with other gentlemen studying to be fierce naval fighter
The other young gentlemen nick named him Feeble Efforts
Nobody will remember any of THEM unless is because
they at the Naval Academy WITH NICHOLSON He
reced mems knowledge to the speed of light and thus
reced all of distances in space And incidental
y he concluding experiments testing the rgdty of the
EARTH which demonstrates the fact that this earth is twice
rigid as it would be if made of solid steel.
Interesting to those that have brains.
u.s. said learn to be patient with FOOLS and
whenever possible let learn realize that is ourselves
and not the other who is a fool-very often.
There fools the word-many of them millions of them
But there is only real kind of fool And he is the
who is patient free from self willing learn
The who will learn and who will be patient
Be patient with fools for praccng patience alone of the
greatest possible value.
Genius is nothing but patience AND POWER.
The patience without the mental power produce
genius
But the mental matter how great not trans
late itself into the work that call genius
infinite capacity for taking pains which patience
Be patient with FOOLS for they the majority. And
must make living from the majority applause from
the majority and win our victories over the majority
Be patient with fools also dearly beloved men,
this world would be uncomfortable for you men, there
not many fools in it,
There many successful and ninety
hundred really successful BECAUSE NOBODY GAVE
THEM SERIOUS COMPETITION
You put your finger map and hit any little town.
and find in it prosperous, successful newspaper.
GIVE 1T COMPETITION and you see it in months
And in the town. Main street you win find very
prosperous successful merchant
Give him the taste of such competition bigger man could
give hmand you might find him driving bigger mans
delivery wagon, if he hadn't saved up money
We succeed because the fools plentiful easy
just the woodman sinks deep the pen
tifu, soft and easy.
Give the steel to cut and the story will be different
the choppers will ache.
Take away the fools the think they can succeed
without effort and life will become harder difficult prob
lem
Study the fool be patient with him. you him. you
know 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 features of your
own nature just the brutality the Middle Ages weeded out
the fools and the drunkards from among the people