The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1916-01-07
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"'If every year we could root out one vice we
would sooner become perfect men," lmpatience
is at the root Of many defeats. 1t is customary
nowadays to sneer at the virtue for which the
name OF Job is synonymous. but those who say
that patience is the virtue of an ass or beggars
virtue are not so wise as the Spanish proverp-
maker, who said:
Patience! and shuttle ths cards" Most people
shuttle the cards eagerly ,Ilugh. but the patience
is lacking. Seeking to gz<Ii.the stars at bound
they fall back to .s-,s-aS 70 $780, - 4
New Year adjusted thei- Desires in accordance
with their abilities and instead of signing for the
unattanable made the very most OF the oppor-
tunities vouchsafed to them, one would hear less
of broken resolutions and wasted lives.
DO the duty which lies nearest to thee which
thou knowest to be duty" said Carlyle. Thy
second duty will already have become clearer"
The Turning Of New Leaves.
Good resolutions have almost gone out of fash.
ion. On the last night of the year we no longer
sit down to review our past lives and resolve to
be better and wiser" than we have been in the
past. 1T is of no use making resolutions, never
can keep Them is the plea that Is usually prof
fered. This is a mistake, however. It is com.
mendable to resolve ian alarm clock helping one)
to get up half an hour earlier than usual in the
morning, even though 1t results-as, alas! It too
often does-in one getting up half an hour later.
1t is what one aspires to be that counts.
If people could live more in the present 1t
would help them enormously in the keeping of
good resolutions. So many people persist in be-
ing Just little ahead all the time.
Tomorrow" they say I'VE. will reform" but
the tomorrow of their lmaginings never dawns.
Ancient and modern philosophers have agreed
as to the dangers of procrastination. Such wide
ly diverse people as Horace, the Latin poet who
iourished in S. B. c., and pushfu persons who
flourish Exceedingly at the present day. Join
issue in this particular
who begins possesses half the deed" says
Horace.
Dare to be wise; make commencement"
DO II now" is the curt command OF the mod
ern apostle of Hustle" Again. Horace says, IF
you are ignorant how to live Alright, give place
to those who have learned the lesson"
Get on or get OUT says a manikin, following
in more concentrated, II less courteous language
the same line of thought on somewhat lower
plane. The one was concerned with the things
of the soul and the spirit: the other with worldly
advancement. There are some who contend that
the two cannot go together. but II las has been
contended by many men OF wisdom) what man
is is OF more Importance than what he has, 1t is
well to make spiritual advancement as the years
go by. II we have not made progress. we have
gone back. The soul never stands still Time has
no terror for those who have learned wisdom.
Pass thou, wild heart
Wild heart Of youth that still
Hast half mind to stay.
grow too old a comrade;
Let us part,
Pass thou away.
Some people drag the foIlies and immaturities
OF youth into old age There Is wisdom In ad
justing oneself to time, to profit by past expert
ences, and to acquire that sense of proportion
which refuses to magnify trihes into tragedies
and to worry over the inevitable