. Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement. Having in my youth notions of severe piety, saida Persian writer, I used to rise in the night to watch,pray, and read the Koran. One night, as I was engagedin these exercises, my father, a man of practical virtue,awoke while I was reading. Behold, said I to him,^ thy other children are lost in irreligious slumber whileI alone wake to praise God. Son of my soul, he an-swered, it is better to sleep than to awake to remarkthe faults of thy brothers !
. Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement. Having in my youth notions of severe piety, saida Persian writer, I used to rise in the night to watch,pray, and read the Koran. One night, as I was engagedin these exercises, my father, a man of practical virtue,awoke while I was reading. Behold, said I to him,^ thy other children are lost in irreligious slumber whileI alone wake to praise God. Son of my soul, he an-swered, it is better to sleep than to awake to remarkthe faults of thy brothers ! It is far easier to see the foibles of others than tooverlook them or to avoid them. The burdens of othersare very light for us, and we are masters of all griefsbut our own. Marathon had been fought; Greece was still free;and each of the victorious generals voted himself to befirst in honor ; but all agreed that Miltiades was second. Some one says that men make fourteen great is a great mistake to set our own standard of rightand wrong; to judge people accordingly; to measurethe enjoyment of others by our own ; to expect uniform-. w ^i^^^iim^^ M^^^iiiiJliiiiJiiiii^^^^ FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE•The Angel of the Crimea. The high desire that others may be blest savors of memories of such heroines of gentle charity who have spent their days hang-ing sweet pictures of faith and trust in the silent galleries of sunless lives shallnever perish from the earth. THE CHARITIES. 401 ity of opinion in tliis world; to look for judgment andexperience in youth; to endeavor to mould all disposi-tions alike ; to yield to immaterial trifles ; to look forperfection in our own actions; to worry ourselves andothers with what cannot be remedied; not to alleviateall that needs alleviation, so far as lies in our power;not to make allowance for the infirmities of others ; toconsider everything impossible that we cannot perform ;to believe only what our finite minds can grasp ; to ex-
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