--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 2 published: 1899-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Notes," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 2 (December 1899): 146–147.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera32unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera32unse start_page: 146 end_page: 147 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera32unse publication_year: 1899 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Notes NOTES. To prevent evil is like doing good; to prevent good is doing evil. Heaven never helps the man who will not act. Sophocles. Water, falling day by day. Wears the hardest rock away. The secret in success is to do all you can without thought of fame. —Addison. He that revenges knows no rest; The meek possess a peaceful breast. To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune. Franklin. Worth makes the man^ and want of it the chump; To win: Lay hold, hang on and hump. — NOTES. 147 Give a boy enough love for any calling or place in life which he aspires to fill, and he will win it. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you without a thought of do, fame.— Longfellow. There is no road to success but through a clear, strong purpose. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of whatever sort. — T. T. Hunger. Fight hard against hasty temper. Anger will come, but resist it strongly. A spark may set a house on fire. A fit of passion may give you cause to mourn all the days of your life. Never revenge an injury. If you havean enemy, act kindly toward him, and make him your friend. You may not win him over at once, but try again. Let one kindness be followed by another, till you have compassed your end. By little and little, great things are completed. Mankind worships success, but thinks too little of the means by which it is attained — what days and nights of watching and weariness, how year after year has dragged on, and seen the end still far oif all ; that counts for little, if the long struggle does not close in victory, H. M. Field. Life pulsates with chances. They may not be dramatic or great, but they are important to him who would get on in the world. Do not think that opportunities come to others and not to you. Fortune visits every healthy, determined soul many times; but, if she does not find it ready for its opportunity, she snatches her gift away and gives it to another. The goal of an education: The Neiu York Tribune speaks of a student who asked the president of Oberlin college if he could not take a shorter course than that prescribed by the institution, "Oh, yes," was the reply, "but that depends upon what you want to make of yourself. When God wants to make an oak, he takes one hundred years, but when he wants to make a squash he takes six months,"