Diligence- Ardent application and Industry.
We are not sent into life as a butterfly is sent into summer, gorgeously hovering over the flowers, but to diligently work for the world’s advancement through toil and achievement, to gain happiness.
Be earnest, or give it up altogether.
…little things, and we need not be anxious about the greater ones.
Small things direct our life.
A ship is a large object. It seems to be unmanageable by its vastness, and it is also impelled by driving storms. How great some ships are! What holds the mighty anchor which holds the ship in a storm? A cable. And what is a cable made of? Ropes coiled over ropes, and every rope made out of little threads. So it is with the habits of life, good or bad; here a little and there a little, as trifling as they seemed at first, they become at last such mighty and unconquerable affairs.
Small things build us.
How do humans grow? Of body, mind, heart, and character. Is it not by l…