Western Illinois University - Sequel Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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'Thoughts O' Life 1 My face is to the rising sun, Hope surges through my veins anew, The web the spider 'Doubt' has spun Is brushed awayto nothingnessf' It makes no diyferenee what bran' of polish yo' uses, you has got to mix elbow grease wid it to make it shine the shoes. -Lucky Sambo. RESOLVE To keep my health! To do my work! To live! To see it grow and gain and give! Never to look behind me for an hour! To wait in weakness, to walk in power, - But always fronting onward to the right, Always and always facing toward the right, Robbed, starved, defeated, fallen, wide astray- On with what strength I have! Back to the way! -Charlotte P. Gilman. I! f They do wrong who say I come no more, When once I knock and fail to find you ing For every day I stand outside your door, And bid you wake, and rise to jight and win. -Walter Malone. Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you. -Madeline Bridges. Go anywhere, provided it be forward. --David Livingstone. A good thing to remember and a better thing to do, . Is to work on the Construction Gang, and not the Wrecking Crew. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men, and among troubles, and among things and dijieulties, and obstacles. -Henry Drummond. Most of us can, if we choose, make this world either a palace or a prison.- Lord Avebury. ' I Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control These three alone lead life to sovereign power. -Alfred Tennyson. My business is not to remake myself, But to make the absolute best of what God made. -Browning.

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Thoughts AO' Life T Behind the silent doorways That flank the crowded street ' The mysteries of life are hid. As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are already where your thoughts have hrought you, you will he tomorrow where yo-ur thoughts take you. -james Allan. I will study and get ready and perhaps my chance will come. -Lincoln. D0 the hest you can wherever you are, and when that is accomplished, God will open the door to a higher sphere. -Henry Ward Beecher. Teach me your mood, O patient stars! Who climb each night the ancient sky, Leaving on space no shade, no scars, No trace of age, no fear to die. -R. W. Emerson. So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near to God is man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. -R. W. Emmerson. An optimist is one who sees an opportunity in every diflicultyg a pessimist sees a difficulty in every opportunity. It can he done. -Sully. ' Success doesn't 'ha en'. It is or anized, reem ted, ca tured, b consecrated PP s P P P Y common sense. -F. E. Willard. Make the shoes that you must walk with today rather than the wings you would Hy with tomorrow. I'm glad the sky is painted blueg And the earth is painted green, And such a lot of nice fresh air All sandwiched in between. Cowards die many times before their deathg The -valiant never tastes of death hut once. -Shakespeare. It is better to say, 'This one thing I do,' than to say, 'These forty things I dabble in., -Washington Gladden. y I helieve that the temptations of every man are great, and unless he has more than the ordinary groundwork of honesty and faithfulness, he may be caught hy the' sudden wind of plausible opportunity and tumble over the preeipiee and he ruined. --john Wana1naker.

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Thoughts U' Life There are three kinds of people in the World, the will's, the wont's, the cant s The first accomplish everything, the second oppose everything, and the third fail in everything. The world would he a dismal place Without the love of friends, The handclasp, and the smiling face, The joy that friendship lends. So far as I can see the basis of friendship must be four-fold: integrity, breadth and depth of personality, some deep community interests, mutual self-revelation and answering trust, and mutual self-giving. -Henry Churchill King. Friendship-one soul in two bodies. -Pythagoras. Who seeksa faultless friend, rests friendlessf'--Turkish Proverb. That friend who serves and seeks for gain, And follows hut for form, Will pack when it begins to rain And leave you in the stormf'-Shakespeare. This learned I from the shadow of a tree, Which, to and fro, did sway against a wall: Our shadow selves, our influence, may fall Where we can never be. -A. E. Hamilton. Earth,s crammed with heaven, And every common hush afire with God, But only he who sees, takes off his shoes- The rest sit round it and pluck hlackherriesf' -Elizabeth Browning. But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, That when nae real ills perplex them, They make enow themsels to Vex them. --Robert Burns. Blessed is the man who has found his work, let him ask no other blessedness Carlyle. God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands, Men Men Men Men whom the lust of ofiice does not kill, whom the spoils of office cannot buyg who possess opinions and a will, who have honor+-men who will not lie. -J. G. Holland