Western Illinois University - Sequel Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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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

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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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EAST DRIVE Rough is the path and many-forked the way That leads where gates of 'vietory open wide There is no- road can bid a traveler stay I f knowledge is his guide.