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INTERIOR VISION.
not the soul behind it, and have never fairly made myself understood.
It will not always be so, for, Still the world goes round and round, And men their courses run; But ever the right comes uppermost, And ever is justice done.
And, after all, few if any of us want or ask for pity.
Justice is
all that’s needed stern justice ; and when that is truly accorded, there will be found full many an angel where devils only have been looked for.
I, for one, believe this, and have abounding
lenity towards all people on God’s earth, except the Slayers of the Innocents.
And now I end my task with a bit of advice, hoping that the matter of this book, original and selected, may benefit all.
To
everybody the poet says, and I repeat: “ God gave us hands, one left, one right; The first to help ourselves; the other To stretoh abroad in kindly might, And keep along a suffering brother. Then if you see a sister fall, And bow her head before the weather, Assist at once; remove tho thrall, And suffer, or grow strong together! n
It may chance that you, reader, may have enemies; and if so, take my advice for I have them too, sap-heads mainly.
Go
straight on, and don’t mind them; if they get in your way, walk round them, regardless of their spite.
A man or woman who has
no enemies is seldom good for anything, is made of that kind of material which is so easily worked that every one has a hand in it.
A sterling character is one who thinks and speaks what she
or he thinks ; such are sure to have enemies. sary as fresh air.
They are as neces They keep people alive and active.
A cele brated character, who was surrounded by enemies, used to remark, “ They are sparks which, if you do not blow, will go out of themselves.”
“Live down prejudice,” was the “iron Duke’s” motto.
Let this be your feeling while endeavoring to live down the scandal of those who are bitter against you; if you stop to dispute, you
not the soul behind it, and have never fairly made myself understood.
It will not always be so, for, Still the world goes round and round, And men their courses run; But ever the right comes uppermost, And ever is justice done.
And, after all, few if any of us want or ask for pity.
Justice is
all that’s needed stern justice ; and when that is truly accorded, there will be found full many an angel where devils only have been looked for.
I, for one, believe this, and have abounding
lenity towards all people on God’s earth, except the Slayers of the Innocents.
And now I end my task with a bit of advice, hoping that the matter of this book, original and selected, may benefit all.
To
everybody the poet says, and I repeat: “ God gave us hands, one left, one right; The first to help ourselves; the other To stretoh abroad in kindly might, And keep along a suffering brother. Then if you see a sister fall, And bow her head before the weather, Assist at once; remove tho thrall, And suffer, or grow strong together! n
It may chance that you, reader, may have enemies; and if so, take my advice for I have them too, sap-heads mainly.
Go
straight on, and don’t mind them; if they get in your way, walk round them, regardless of their spite.
A man or woman who has
no enemies is seldom good for anything, is made of that kind of material which is so easily worked that every one has a hand in it.
A sterling character is one who thinks and speaks what she
or he thinks ; such are sure to have enemies. sary as fresh air.
They are as neces They keep people alive and active.
A cele brated character, who was surrounded by enemies, used to remark, “ They are sparks which, if you do not blow, will go out of themselves.”
“Live down prejudice,” was the “iron Duke’s” motto.
Let this be your feeling while endeavoring to live down the scandal of those who are bitter against you; if you stop to dispute, you
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