If you are tempted to reveal
A tale to you some has told
About another, make it pass
Before you speak. three gates of gold.
These narrow gates:
First, “Is it true??”
Then, “Is it needful??”
In your mind give truthful answer.
And the next is last and narrowest, “Is it Kind??”
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I wanted health and strength to do the great things,
Infirmity taught patience for each day.
My strength, as fleeting as a moth’s white wing,
Lift me dependent, that I might obey.
I wanted wealth for happiness and ease,
But poverty prevailed and made me wise.
I wanted power to conquer and to please,
But weakness made me see through other’s eyes.
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Are you very weary?? Rest a little bit
In some quiet corner, fold your hand and sit.
Do not let the trials that have grieved you all the day
Haunt this quiet corner: drive them all the way!!
Let your heart grow empty of every thought unkind
That peace may hover round you, and joy may fill your mind.
Count up [...]
If you wake up in the morning
with your hardest job to do,
Don’t start the day with grumbling—
That won’t help you see it through.
Be glad for work that’s difficult,
For tasks that challenge you!
Workers find a thousand blessings
The idle never knew.
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A little more tired at the closed of day,
A little less anxious to have our way,
A little less ready to scold and blame,
A little more care for a brother’s name;
And so we are nearing the journey’s end,
Where time and eternity meet and bland.
A little less care fore bonds and gold,
A little more zeal for the [...]
The world won’t care if you quit
And the world won’t whine if you fail;
The busy world won’t not notice it,
No matter how loudly you wail.
Nobody will worry that you
Have relinquished the fight and gone down
For it’s only the things that you do
That are worth while and get you renown
The quitters are quickly forgotten;
Of them the [...]
Are you very weary?
In some quiet corner, fold your hand and sit.
Do not let the trials that have grieved you all the day
Haunt this quiet corner; drive them all way!
Let your heart grow empty of every though unkind
That peace may hover round you, and joy may fill your mind.
Count up all your blessings, I’m sure [...]
Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where drams may go,
And sheltered so,
May thrive and grow-
Where doubt and fear are not.
Oh, they keep a place apart
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go.
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing and the hills will answer;
Sight it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice and men will seek you;
Grieve and they turn and [...]
Sometimes it’s hard to take
The bitter with the sweet
To face the raging storms of life
And not give up in defeat.
Sometimes we rely on worldly things
To help us reach our goals
We build our hopes upon the sand
And the storms beat on our souls.
But if we put our trust in God
We’re building on His rock
And all the [...]
