I KNOW!
I know I can do as a please. At least I can always refuse. Hence I know that 1 am responsible for ray actions. 1 will accept this responsibility and play the man. I will not be ever seeking excuses for my weakness. I know I do not understand all the secret springs of the acts of others, hence I will be charitable in my judgments. I know that what I know is to what I do not know as one is to infinity, hence I will try always to be teachable. I know that the past cannot be changed, hence I will make the best of it; and that I cannot control the future, hence I will not worry about it. 1 know that happiness depends more upon my thoughts than upon what happens to me, hence I will strive to control and adjust myself, instead of complaining of circumstances. I know that the world is managed by a power and a will not of myself and greater than myself, hence I will try to understand and conform to it. I know I cannot cheat nor evade the laws of Nature, hence I will seek to find out what they are and obey them. I know I have limitations, and that it is quite as important to unrerstand them as it is to know my capacity. I know that life is sweet to the healthy minded, and therefore I will reject summarily any creed or opinion that degrades or mocks at life. I know what love is. I do not not always know what is right or wrong, nor what is wise or unwise. Therefore I can safely love everybody and safely regulate nobody. I know that suspicion is a disease of faith, jealousy is a disease of egotism, and envy is a disease of small natures; these I will avoid. I know I can control and shape my tastes, my desires, and my thoughts and I will not allow myself to be dominated by these. I know that no sentiment, no feeling, is of value unless it enters into the will and is expressed in action. 1 know that I will get from this world the equivalent only of what T give to it. 1 know that, whatever God may be, a constant effort to do right is t'he only way to secure His approval. Whatever wrong I have committed He becomes my friend when I begin to do right.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1402, 11 September 1923, Page 3
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414I KNOW! Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1402, 11 September 1923, Page 3
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