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More Thoughts From The Businessman's Calendar

Dear Friends,

Last week I sent you some thoughts from the 1915 weekly calendar I found at Nancy’s childhood home in Massachusetts. I got many appreciative responses, so I thought I would send you one last selection of them today. One person wrote saying that they also, like me, enjoy “the old dead guys.” I must confess I do have a deep appreciation for many of them. Certain things change and become obsolete over time, but common sense and wise words tend to retain their staying power. Therefore, I send you this one last grouping of thoughts from, “The Business Man’s Calendar,” published in 1914 (for 1915), by Dodge Publishing Co., 216 E. 23rd Street, New York City. Enjoy!


“No amount of money ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.”
Ruskin

“Do good with what you have; or it will do you no good.”
William Penn

“The happy man is he who is cheerful with moderate means; the unhappy man is he who is discontented in the midst of excess and plenty.”
Democritus


“What does it matter where your feet stand, or what your hands are busy doing, so long as it is the spot where God has put you, and the work which he has given you to do.”
George Eliot (The solution for envy.)

“Do not think of your faults; still less of the faults of others. Look for what is good and strong and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves when their time comes.”
Ruskin

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you can not hold on a minute longer, do not give up. For that is just the time when the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe


“When you are so devoted to doing what is right that you press straight on to do it and disregard what men are saying about you, there we find the triumph of moral courage.”
Phillips Brooks

“He that will not say an ill-natured word, or do something unreasonable, because he considers God everywhere present, performs a better devotion to God than the man that dares not miss church.”
William Law

“The wealth of a man is the number of things he loves and blesses, the number by whom he is loved and the things by which he is blessed.”
Carlyle


“Live with men as if God were watching you. Speak with God as if men were hearing you.”
Seneca

“The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.”
Anonymous


If you would be wise, seek to understand the sayings of the wise, Pastor Jeff

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