Western Illinois University - Sequel Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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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

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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 O' Life Don't look for flaws as you go through life, And even when you find them, It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind And look for the virtue behind them. Wil-iAT IS LIFE TO YOU? fr u To the preacher life's a sermon, To the joker it's a jestg To the miser life is money, To the loafer life is rest, To the lawyer life's a trial, To the poet life's a song, To the doctor life's a patient, That needs treatment right along. To the soldier life's a battle, To the teacher life's a school g Life's a good thing to the grafter, Itis a failure to the fool. Life is but a long vacation To the man who loves his work, Life's an everlasting ejort To shun duty, to the shirk. To the earnest, sincere worker Life's a story ever new, Life is what we try to make it- Tell me, what is life to you?-Selected. He who builds with wood and stone Must see his work decay, But he who builds the human mind Builds for eternity. Speak clearly, if you speak at allg If it is not seemly, do it Carve every word before you let it fallf, not, if it is not true, speak it not. -Marcus Aurelius