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This Is The Way To Cultivate Courage: First, By Standing Firm On Some Conscientious Principle, Some Law Of Duty. Next, By Being Faithful To Truth And Right On Small Occasions And Common Events. Third, By Trusting In God For Help And Power.

When I Consider What Some Books Have Done For The World, And What They Are Doing, How They Keep Up Our Hope, Awaken New Courage And Faith, Soothe Pain, Give An Ideal Life Those Whose Hours Are Cold And Hard, Bind Together Distant Ages And Foreign Lands, Create New Worlds Of Beauty, Bring Down Truth From Heaven; I Give Eternal Blessings For This Gift, And Thank God For Books.

Unmixed Praise Is Not Due To Any One. It Leaves Behind A Sense Of Unreality. We Can Only Do Justice To A Great Man By A Discriminating Criticism. Hero-worship, Which Paints A Faultless Monster, Whom The World Never Saw, Is Like Those Modern Pictures Which Are A Blaze Of Light Without Any Shadow.

Let Us Not Torment Each Other Because We Are Not All Alike, But Believe That God Knew Best What He Was Doing In Making Us So Different. So Will The Best Harmony Come Out Of Seeming Discords, The Best Affection Out Of Differences, The Best Life Out Of Struggle, And The Best Work Will Be Done When Each Does His Own Work, And Lets Every One Else Do And Be What God Made Him For.

If We Desire To Do What Will Please God, And What Will Help Men, We Presently Find Ourselves Taken Out Of Our Narrow Habits Of Thought And Action; We Find New Elements Of Our Nature Called Into Activity; We Are No Longer Running Along A Narrow Track Of Selfish Habit.