"Nothing is said nowadays that has not been said before.''--Terence.
'' He must necessarily fear many, whom many fear.''--Seneca.
"Courage in danger is half the battle." --Plautus.
"The multitude is always in the wrong." --Dillon.
"Thought once awakened does not again slumber.''--Carlyle.
'' Second thoughts, they say, are best.'' --Dryden.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries." --Shakespeare.
"We should not let others do our thinking for us. Our individuality is too precious to be so sacrificed. Too many persons are like a chief of the South Sea Islands described by Sir John Lubbock. "Wishing to question him, Sir John first bountifully fed him, whereupon he fell into slumber. "When awakened he simply said: "Ideas make me sleepy." There are men who dislike thinking for them- selves; it is too much like work; it makes them drowsy, and, after all, what is the use of it? Such men lack the true spirit of independence and courage. They are not in line; let it be said with pity, for great work, leadership, and noble success.
Right thinking gives tone and vigor to the physical man, purifies and enlarges his mental world, and leads him into spiritual realization. While our thoughts are building body and character, they are also shaping human destiny. "What a man thinks in his spirit in the world," declared Swedenborg, "that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit." To think that our thoughts comprise "the city of man's soul" should awaken in us a determination not to waste this precious substance in reckless prodigality.
A man who thinks right has reason to feel proud of himself, and he walks abroad with "the holiday in his eye." There is no weakness, no timidity, no hesitation, since to him right is might. He has learned to make his thought selective, by aid of which he takes the good and rejects the bad. He knows, too, how to fit each thought into its proper place, make correct inferences, and form well-considered judgments.
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