¶ And that in degree I, myself, can change the form of things

¶ And influence a few people;

¶ And that I am influenced by these and other people; ¶That I am influenced by the example and by the work of men who are no longer alive;

And that the work I now do will in degree influence people who may live after my life has changed into other forms

¶ That a certain attitude of mind and habit of action on my part will add to the peace, happiness and well-being of other people,

And that a different thought and action on my part will bring pain and discord to others.

¶ That to better my own condition I must practice mutuality

That bodily health is necessary to continued and effective work;

¶ That I am largely ruled by habit;

¶That habit is a form of exercise;

That up to a certain point, exercise means increased strength or ease in effort;

¶ That all life is the expression of spirit;

¶ That my spirit influences my body;

¶ And my body influences my spirit;

¶ That the universe to me is very beautiful;

¶ And everything and everybody in it good and beautiful; When my body and my spirit are in harmonious mood; ¶ That my thoughts are hopeful and helpful unless I am filled with fear,

¶ And that to eliminate fear my life must be dedicated to useful work-work in which I forget myself;

That fresh air in abundance and moderate, systematic exercise in the open are the part of wisdom;

¶ That I can not afford, for my own sake, to be resentful nor quick to take offense;

¶That happiness is a great power for good,

¶And that happiness is not possible without moderation and equanimity;

¶That time turns all discords into harmony if men will but be kind and patient,

¶And that the reward which life holds out for work is not idleness nor rest, nor immunity from work, but increased capacity, GREATER DIFFICULTIES, MORE WORK.

¶ Complete success alienates a man from his fellows, but suffering makes kinsmen of us all.

¶ He is best educated who is most useful.

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EACHING things out of season is a woful waste of time. It is also a great consumer of nerve-force, for both pupil and teacher.

¶ For instance, the English plan of having little boys of eight study Latin and Greek killed a lot of boys, and probably never helped a single one to shoulder life's burden and be a better man.

¶ Knowledge not used, like anything else not used, is objectionable and often dangerous.

¶ Nature intends knowledge for service, not as an ornament or for purposes of bric-a-brac.

¶"Delay adolescence-delay adolescence!" cries Stanley Hall. The reason is plain. The rareripe rots. What boy well raised, of ten or twelve, can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown up broker! But the Arab never becomes a man. ¶ The awkward and bashful boy from the country-with mind slowly ripening in its rough husk, gathering gear as he goes, securing knowledge in order to use it, and by using it, making it absolutely his own, and gaining capacity for more is the type that scores.

¶ The priestly plan of having one set of men do all the thinking, and another set all the work, is tragedy for both. ¶ To quit the world of work in order to get an education is as bad as quitting the world of work and struggle in order to be "good." The tendency of the classical education is to unfit the youth for work. He gains knowledge, like the gamin, in advance of his needs.

The boy of eighteen who enters college and graduates at twenty-two, when he comes home wants to run his father's business. Certainly he will not wash windows. ¶ He has knowledge, but no dexterity—he has learning, but no competence.

¶ He owns a kit of tools, but does not know how to use them. And now, if his father is rich, a place is made for him where he can do no damage, a genteel and honorable place, and he hypnotizes himself and deceives his friends with the fallacy that he is really doing something.

¶ In the meantime the plain and alert young man brought up in the business keeps the chimes on the barrel, otherwise 't would busticate.

¶ Use and acquaintance should go hand in hand. Skill

must be applied. All great writers learned to write in just one way-by writing. To acquire the kit is absurd-get the tools one at a time as you need them.

¶ College has just one thing to recommend it, and that is the change of environment that it affords the pupil. This is what does him good-new faces, new scenes, new ideas, new associations. The curriculum is nil-if it keeps the fledgling out of mischief it accomplishes its purpose. But four years in college tends to ossification instead of fluidity and seven years means the pupil gets caught and held by environment: he stays too long.

¶Alexander von Humboldt was right-one year in any college is enough for any man. One year gives him inspiration and all the spirit of good there is in it; a longer period fixes frats, fads and fancies in his noodle as necessities. ¶ Men are great only as they train on. College may place you in the two-thirty list, but you get into the free-for-all only by letting the Bunch take your dust.

¶ Happy is the man, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is discarded by his Alma Mater, or like Henry Thoreau, who discarded her.

¶ In any event-in God's name, get weaned!

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F you have health, you probably will be happy; and

if you have health and happiness, you will have all the wealth you need, even if not all you want.

¶Health is the most natural thing in the world. It is natural to be healthy, because we are a part of Nature

we are Nature. Nature is trying hard to keep us well, because she needs us in her business.

¶Nature needs man so he will be useful to other men.

¶To center on one's self, and forget our relationship to society, is to summon misery, and misery means disease. The rewards of life are for service.

¶ And the penalties of life are for selfishness.

¶ Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

We preserve our sanity, only as we forget self in service. Unhappiness is an irritant. It affects the heart-beats or circulation first; then the digestion; and the person is ripe for two hundred nineteen diseases, and six hundred forty-two complications.

¶ The recipe for good health is this: Forget it.

¶ What we call diseases are merely symptoms of mental conditions

¶ Our bodies are automatic, and thinking about your digestion does not aid you. Rather it hinders, since the process of thinking, especially anxious thinking, robs the stomach of its blood, and transfers it to the head.

¶ If you are worried enough, digestion will stop absolutely. The moral is obvious: Don't Worry.

There are three habits which, with but one condition added, will give you everything in the world worth having, and beyond which the imagination of man can not conjure forth a single addition or improvement. These habits are the Work Habit, the Health Habit and the Study Habit. ¶ If you are a man and have these habits, and also have the love of a woman who has these same habits, you are in Paradise now and here, and so is she.

¶ Health, Books and Work, with Love added, are a solace for all the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune-a defense 'gainst all the storms that blow; for through their