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yourself: "I am not going to hold an unkind thought to-day toward any human being." matter what may come up to vex or distress you, never part with your resolve to keep sweet. If necessary, force yourself to laugh and sing, and you will soon really feel what you impersonate.

It is a good thing to keep a list of cheering, hopeful, inspiring words and mottoes to repeat mechanically when you are out of sorts. No matter how badly you may feel, if you do this for a little while you will experience a wonderful peace and satisfaction, and you will think more of yourself and have more confidence in your ability to control yourself.

If you wish to attract friends and to do your best work, keep your mind filled with sunshine, with beauty and truth, with cheerful and uplifting thoughts; bury everything that makes you unhappy and discordant, everything that cramps your freedom and worries you. Bury it before it buries you. Adopt the sun-dial's motto, "I record none but hours of sunshine."

"It is the songs you sing and the smiles you wear That makes the sunshine everywhere."

There is ever sunshine somewhere; and the brave man will go on his way rejoicing, content to look forward if temporarily under a cloud, not bating one jot of heart or hope if for a moment cast down; honoring his occupation, whatever it

may be, and not only being cheerful himself, but bringing a message of good cheer to others.

The development of the capacity to enjoy life is of inestimable value to those who would get on in the world. Whatever your calling in life may be, whatever misfortune or hardships may come to you, make up your mind resolutely at the very outset that, come what may, you will get the most possible real enjoyment out of every day as you go along; that you will increase your capacity for enjoying life by trying to find the sunny side of experience. Resolutely determine that you will be an optimist; that there will be nothing of the pessimist about you; that you will carry your own sunshine wherever you go, and that you will radiate hope and good cheer everywhere.

COURAGE AND SELF-FAITH—

HOW TO CULTIVATE

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Conquer your place in the world, for all things serve a brave soul.

"When all the blandishments of life are gone,

The coward sneaks to death; the brave to live on."

I like the man who faces what he must, with step triumphant and a heart of cheer.

The man of grit carries in his presence the power of resenting insult.—E. P. Whipple.

Dare to live thy creed.

All things serve the brave soul.

"If there be a faith that can remove mountains, it is faith in one's own power."

Trust thyself; every breast vibrates to that iron string.

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him."

-Emerson.

OOK at a man's eye if you want to know what his chances are. If it wavers, if you read discouragement there, pity him, help

If we were to examine the lives of failures, those who are sidetracked, although they possess ability, we should find that most of them are weak, negative characters; they lack courage, stamina; they have no settled convictions, no vigorous, assertive

qualities in their make-up. They express negation, doubt, fear, uncertainty, everything that is opposed to creative power. They have never gotten hold of themselves, never developed their dormant possibilities, never asserted the divinity within them, and so have fallen to the rear.

The chief reason why so many of us go through life doing things which are out of all proportion to what we are capable of doing is because we do not half believe in ourselves. If we only had enough courage, enough of the dare in our nature to begin things which we know we ought to do, then our pride would force us on. The thought of the humiliation which would follow defeat after we had once declared our purpose would brace our lagging spirit and keep us to our task.

When a man really believes in himself, when he feels that he can do what he undertakes, his courage is wonderfully increased, and it is courage that leads the other faculties.

The Spartan mothers kept the idea of courage and fearlessness constantly in the youth's mind. He was taught to be brave under all circumstances. This had a great deal to do with the sturdy Spartan character. The Roman youth did not fear death.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

Success is impossible for the man who is fearful, who hesitates to decide, who is always weighing,

balancing, and reconsidering, who is never sure of himself, but must continually ask the advice or opinion of others as to what he shall do. He carries no weight nor conviction. No one believes in him because he does not believe in himself.

"Lacking courage it is impossible for one to prove his convictions; without the courage of his convictions a man's initiative dies; when initiative is detroyed one loses power for leadership; and when capacity for leadership is lost the individual is at once relegated to the ranks as an ordinary wage earner, and is thereafter unlikely as a success possibility."

No one can be courageous who does not believe in himself. A man must have faith in his ability to do the thing he undertakes before he can show courage in it; for courage is simply the consciousness of power, of the ability to meet emergencies, to cope with obstacles.

If one would be a king instead of a slave one must try to think as a king, and to act like one. To awaken a sense of courage in the mind one must think courage thoughts; must try to think and act like a man of courage.

There are many ways in which we can cultivate courage, through the avenue of self-respect, through self-faith, self-confidence. In other words, we can cultivate and strengthen courage or any other faculty by approaching it in different direc