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Say not unto thy soul, " Thou shalt be purer tomorrow " ; but rather say, " Thou shalt be pure now."
TO-MORROW is too late for anything, and he who sees help and salvation in to-morrow shall continually fail and fall to-day. Thou didst fall yesterday ! Didst sin grievously ! Having realised this, leave it instantly and forever, and watch that thou sinnest not now. The while thou art bewailing the past every gate of thy soul remains unguarded against the entrance of sin now.
The foolish man, loving the boggy side of procrastination rather than the firm highway of Present Effort, says, " I will rise early tomorrow ; I will get out of debt to-morrow ; I will carry out my intentions to-morrow," But the wise man, realising the momentous import of the Eternal Now, rises early to-day ; keeps out of debt to-day ; carries out his intentions to-day ; and so never departs from strength and peace and ripe accomplishment.
Thou shalt not rise by grieving over the irremediable past, but by remedying the present.
Not by learning will a man triumph over
evil; not by much study will he overcome
sin and sorrow. Only by conquering
himself will he conquer evil; only by
practising righteousness will he put an
end to sorrow.
Not for the clever, nor the learned, nor
the self-confident is the Life Triumphant,
but for the pure, the virtuous and wise.
The former achieve their particular success
in life, but the latter alone achieve the
great success so invincible and complete
that even in apparent defeat it shines with
added victory.
The true silence is not merely a silent
tongue; it is a silent mind. To merely hold
one’s tongue, and yet to carry about a
disturbed and rankling mind, is no remedy
for weakness, and no source of power.
Silentness, to be powerful, must
envelop the whole mind, must permeate
every chamber of the heart; it must be
the silence of peace.
To this broad, deep, abiding silentness
a man attains only in the measure that
he conquers himself.
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