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The Old Fashioned Virtues

ON'T try to eliminate the old fashioned virtues-many have tried it, with indifferent success. No good substitute has yet been found for simplicity, frankness, sobriety, industry and sincerity. ¶ To think, to see, to feel, to know, to deal justly; to bear all patiently; to act quietly; to speak cheerfully; to moderate one's voice -these things will bring you the highest good. They will bring you to love of the best and the esteem of that sacred few whose good opinion alone is worth cultivating. Endeavor to eliminate hate, fear, prejudice and whim. Greet the day with gladness because it gives you an opportunity to work. Do not try to kill time and time will not try to kill you. Take your medicine, when Fate sends it, and make no wry face; if you should have a tumble now and then, always be up before the Referee counts ten.

Seek to be truthful, simple, direct, moderate,

minding your own business and not bothering other folks any more than you have to. Believe in useful industry, good cheer, fresh air, sound sleep, good digestion and kind thoughts: believe that the mental attitude of good will, courtesy and reciprocity will bring the best possible results that are to be obtained by anybody, either in this world or another: that the best preparation for good tomorrow is good work today

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Health and Habit

F you have health, you probably will be happy; and if you have health and happiness, you will have all the wealth you need, even if not all you want. Health is the most natural thing in the world. It is natural to be healthy because we are a part of Nature-we are Nature. Nature is trying hard to keep us well, because she needs us in her business. Nature needs man so he will be useful to other men. The rewards of life

are for service. And the penalties of life are for selfishness.

Human service is the highest form of selfinterest for the person who serves. We preserve our sanity only as we forget self in service. To center on one's self, and forget our relationship to society is to summon misery and misery means disease.

Unhappiness is an irritant. It affects the heartbeats or circulation first; then the digestion, and the person is ripe for two hundred and nineteen diseases, and six hundred and forty-two complications.

Nothing you can take out of a bottle or that you can rub on, will remove the cause of misery. "Medicine is only palliative," says Dr. Weir Mitchel, "for back of disease lies the cause, and this cause no drugs can reach.” “I've a cold in my head," said the man to the wise doctor. And the doctor replies, Doubtless, for that is the only place where the microbe abides." People who dread disease and fear disease have disease. The recipe for good health is this: Forget it. What we call disease are merely symptoms

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of mental conditions. Our bodies are automatic, and thinking about your digestion. does not aid you. Rather it hinders, since the process of thinking, especially anxious thinking, robs the stomach of its blood, and transfers it to the head. If you are worried enough, digestion will stop absolutely. The moral is obvious: Don't Worry. "This horse is all right, unless he gets scared,' said a horseback rider to me, the other day. And I answered, "So am I!"

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In public speaking I have often noticed that when I am anxious to make a big speech, I grew fearful about my voice, and begin to distrust my memory. The result is that I have to push that speech ahead of me for the whole blessed hour and a half, and am conscious of my feet and aware of my hands all the time. The result is a strictly Class B oratorical effort.

That is to say, it was an effort and not a pleasure for either the speaker or the audience. For the speaker supplies the mood for the audience. If the speaker is happy the audience is, also. And as before hinted, we

are only happy when we forget ourselves and do not know whether we are happy or not.

Those rare times when I make a big impression upon my auditors are when I go upon the stage with a certain amount of indifference, simply taking care not to have overeaten. Then I start in slowly, and soon the thoughts are coming along, just as fast as I can use them. The air is full of reasons, and all I have to do is to reach up and pick the ones I want.

With good health it is the same—just a few plain rules, and the whole matter is automatic and self-lubricating. Health is a habit. We are ruled by habit. There are three habits which, with but one condition added, will give you everything in the world worth having, and beyond which the imagination of man can not conjure forth a single addition or improvement. These habits are: The Work Habit

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The Health Habit

The Study Habit

you are a man and have these habits and also have the love of a woman who has these

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