. Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement. r x^hysical nature, and the most unrelaxing indus-try will never rob you of a months health, nor shortenthe thread of your life ; for industry and health are com-panions, and long life is the heritage of diligence. 144 ARCHITECTS OF FATE. How shall I a habit break V As you did that habit you gathered, you must lose ;As you yielded, now by thread the strands we twistTill they bind us neck and by thread the patient
. Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement. r x^hysical nature, and the most unrelaxing indus-try will never rob you of a months health, nor shortenthe thread of your life ; for industry and health are com-panions, and long life is the heritage of diligence. 144 ARCHITECTS OF FATE. How shall I a habit break V As you did that habit you gathered, you must lose ;As you yielded, now by thread the strands we twistTill they bind us neck and by thread the patient handMust untwine ere free we we builded, stone by stone,We must toil, unhelped, the wall is overthrown. But remember, as we try,Lighter every test goes by;Wading in, the stream grows deepToward the centres downward sweep;Backward turn, each step ashoreShallower is than that before. Ah, the precious years we wasteLeveling what we raised in haste;Doing what must be undone,Ere content or love be won !First across the gulf we castKite-borne threads till lines are passed,And habit builds the bridge at last. John Boyle JAMES A. GARFIELD-,The weak, the leaning, the dependent, the vacillatingKnow not, nor ever can, the generous prideThat glows in him, who on himself relies:His joy is not tliat he has won the crown,But that the power to win the crown is his. CHAPTER VIII. SELF-HELP. I learned that no man in Gods wide earth is either willing or able to helpany other man. — Pestalozzi. What I am I have made myself. — Humphry Davy. Be sure, my son, and remember that the best men always make them-selves. — Patrick Henry. Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow ? Byron. God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest. —J. G. Holland. Never forget that others will depend upon you, and that you cannotdepend upon them. —Dumas, Fils. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to H
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