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Title: Character building and reading; a correlation of the facts of psychology and physiology in their relation to soul discipline and physiognomy
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Jean Morris, Jean
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Publisher: Eugene, Ore., Church & School Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he answer came back, Thestruggles which you feared would result fa-tally are Natures method of strengthening thewings. Without these struggles full develop-ment can not take place. Your well-meantinterference will result in your butterfly crawl-ing through its breif existence, instead of soar-ing aloft as Nature intended. Our struggles make us strong. Withoutthem we are apt to crawl, rather than soar.There is real and abiding joy in wresting suc-cess from defeat; in treading the mountainheights in the teeth of the storm. We can notafford to sit weakly down among the foothillsbewailing the fact that the mountains aresteep and circumstances against us. Man isnot the creature of circumstances; circum-stances are the creatures of men, and oftenout of the most unpromising circumstancesthe most beautiful souls emerge. One of the dearest and sunniest souls ithas ever been my lot to meet, might well beexcused if she shed tears and bemoanings, in-stead of smiles and blessings, along her way.28
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Mrs. Sarah Mulkey Todd (Grandma) CHARACTER AND BRAIN BUILDING Dear, brave little Grandma Todd, with yourloving heart and quaint humor, how manylives you have brightened and encouraged inthe last hundred years! (For Grandma will bea hundred and one years old on the 29th ofMarch, 1911). The friends of youth have long since de-parted, but Grandma will never lack for friends,for, like Kim, she is the little friend of allthe world, and all the world smiles back ather. She is Poor in purse, but rich in soul,Wit and wisdom lighting the whole. Rich, in-deed, in her sublime and childlike faith in Godand humanity. Rich in that wonderful visionwhich sees good in everyone and beauty ev-erywhere. A hundred years old, and yet thetiny feet patter joyfully about on kindly er-rands, and the little toil-worn hands are everreached out to do something for somebody.She has the heart of a child and the wisdomof her years; even the keenest mind mustlook out for its laurels when it measures witswith hers. An

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