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first…love whisper。  Who can enter the chapel where their dead lie; 

and feel no blush of self…reproach; nor burning consciousness of 

broken faith nor wasted opportunities?  The new year will bring to 

them as near an approach to perfect happiness as can be attained in 

life's journey。  The fortunate mortals are rare who can; without a 

heartache or regret; pass through their disused and abandoned 

dwellings; who dare to open every door and enter all the silent 

rooms; who do not hurry shudderingly by some obscure corners; and 

return with a sigh of relief to the cheerful sunlight and murmurs 

of the present。



Sleepless midnight hours come inevitably to each of us; when the 

creaking gates of subterranean passages far down in our 

consciousness open of themselves; and ghostly inhabitants steal out 

of awful vaults and force us to look again into their faces and 

touch their unhealed wounds。



An old lady whose cheerfulness under a hundred griefs and 

tribulations was a marvel and an example; once told a man who had 

come to her for counsel in a moment of bitter trouble; that she had 

derived comfort when difficulties loomed big around her by writing 

down all her cares and worries; making a list of the subjects that 

harassed her; and had always found that; when reduced to material 

written words; the dimensions of her troubles were astonishingly 

diminished。  She recommended her procedure to the troubled youth; 

and prophesied that his anxieties would dwindle away in the clear 

atmosphere of pen and paper。



Introspection; the deliberate unlatching of closed wickets; has the 

same effect of stealing away the bitterness from thoughts that; if 

left in the gloom of semi…oblivion; will grow until they overshadow 

a whole life。  It is better to follow the example of England's pure 

Queen; visiting on certain anniversaries our secret places and 

holding communion with the past; for it is by such scrutiny only





THAT MEN MAY RISE ON STEPPING…STONES

OF THEIR DEAD SELVES TO HIGHER THINGS。





Those who have courage to perform thoroughly this task will come 

out from the silent chambers purified and chastened; more lenient 

to the faults and shortcomings of others; and better fitted to take 

up cheerfully the burdens of a new year。









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