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There are s(me rrtto dread lonelinesse and others to
H'trom solitude is a treasui€r There is a certain
fecundity in quiet. There is a poise and surety of
thought that comes only in unhurried spaces.
There are tragic shadows for all of us. Every lifel
however freel has its dreadful skeletons, its lurking
horrors, things that we fear to look at or to think on.
It does make a di fference urhat you thi nk. Your duty i s
not fi rst to get the facts and to see the truth. Your
first duty is to prepare yourself to do this. If your
mfind is full of false ideas, if it is clouded with a lot
of superstition or twisted by false sentimente or all
hard and brittle because of sqne non-fact to which you
have given your rrfai thrr frqn a sense of dutyr you are
entirely incapable of using the truth. It is wise to be
intellectually honest for one thing. Therers an ethics
of the intellect as well as of the heart. Donrt lie to
yourself or cozen yourself. Once you accept a thing as
true, without knowing whether it is true or notr you are
on the road to mental ruin.
If you knew that you had but one nrcre day to liver and
that at the setting of tomorrowrs sun your life would
closel how r.rould we spend that day. It would make you
as finee great, honest and noble as possible for you to
be.
Enjoy your life, live your life wisely nowr for the past
is gone and no one knows the future.
tltrat you get out of your life is what you give and what
you give is your life.
To dare is to do and to fear is to fail.