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Wisdom

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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K la temper which makee the bliss of Jiome or destroys comfort. One great trouble in doïng a mean ction is that you are compelled to associate with yourself afterward. Whoever fails to turn aside the illa of life by prudent forethought muat submit to fulfil the cauee of destiny. Purity of heart and Ufe gives a clearness to the mental horizon which nothing else can; it clears away a vast number of clouds and shadows. A wise and kindly silence would often prevent incalculable injury. Especially should we avoid repeating what has been said in the heat of anger. The memory of a beloved mother will often arm the heart and sway the life of a strong man, as her presence never did when, as a boy, 6he yearned over him. We must ourselves ascend if we would lift others, and in this very upward olimbing we are making the firet and most essential step in social improvement. How niuoh trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks; but only to what he does himself that it may be just and pure. In all Uves there is a crisis in the formation of character. It come3 from many causes, and from some which on the surf ace are apparently trivial, but the result is the same- a sudden revelation to ourselves of out eecret purposes, and a recognition of our pertoaps long shadowed but now maaterfu! convictlons.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register