Thoughts I Met on the Highway by Ralph Waldo Trine
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influences are those that move the world. Live only in the thought of
love for all and you will draw love to you from all. Live in the thought of malice or hatred, and malice and hatred will come back to you. And so love inspires love; hatred breeds hatred. Love and good will stimulate and build up the body; hatred and malice corrode and tear it down. Love is a savor of life unto life; hatred is a savor of death unto death. "There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you. "Give love, and love to _your_ heart will flow, A strength in your utmost need; Have faith, and a score of hearts will show Their faith in _your_ word and deed." * * * * * The kind of a man for you and me! He faces the world unflinchingly, And smiles as long as the world exists, With a knuckled faith and force like fists: He lives the life he is preaching of, And loves where most is the need of love; And feeling still, with a grief half glad, That the bad are as good as the good are bad, He strikes straight out for the right--and he |
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