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The human heart to youth is a fairy-land of adventure, to old age it is a sitting room where one knows his way in the dark.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)
How to use my imagination so as to strengthen me instead of making me weak.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919)
How to curb my selfishness and develop my altruism.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919)
The human heart is a roaring forge where night and day the smiths are busy fashioning swords and silver cups, mitres and engine-wheels, the tools of *labor, and the gauds of precedence.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)
THERE is a passage of Holy Writ that exhorts us that if there be any good things, such as love, virtue, truth, and so on, we ought to think on these things.
Everyday Wisdom (1927)
The human heart is a great city, teeming with myriad people, full of business and mighty doings, and we wander its crowded streets unutterably alone; we do not know what it is all about.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)
The human heart is a band playing in a park at a distance; we see the crowds listening, but we catch but fragments of the music now and again, and cannot make out the tune.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)
The human heart is the throne of God, the council-chamber of the devil, the dwelling of angels, the vile heath of witches' Sabbaths, the nursery of sweet children, the blood-spattered scene of nameless tragedies.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)
How to control my sex instinct so as to make it conduce my permanent happiness and not to disease, mental misery, and the wrecking of my career.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919)
How to find pleasure in common things.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919)
How to improve and toughen my will.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919)
How to make friends and keep them.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919)
No one thought in all the world is of more value to put life and cheer and power into a man than the thought that the great Being who made this universe is FOR us and not AGAINST US.
Fear (1921)
Thoughts are given us, not only to chew over for ourselves, but to communicate to others. And if we can find a man that is ready to receive them, and a suitable occasion, there is nothing more pleasurable than giving them.
Everyday Wisdom (1927)
The human heart is a deep still pool; in it are fishes of gold and silver, darting playfully, and slow-heaving slimy monsters, and tarnished treasure hoards, the infinite animalcular life; but when you look down at it you see but your own reflected face.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)
Nobilities, indecencies, heroic impulses, cowardly ravings, good and bad, white and black — the mystery of mysteries, the central island of nescience in a sea of science, the dark spot in the lighted room of knowledge, the unknown quantity, the X in the universal problem.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)
How to get joy out of nature.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919)
God always whispers. At least to the soul. He may thunder to nations and speak to armies in the lightning. But to the individual His message is not in the mighty wind, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but in the still, small voice.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919)
How to control my temper.
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919)