---
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: 3
published: 1900-01
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. 3 (January 1900): 234.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera33unse
  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: improvementera33unse
start_page: 234
end_page: 234
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera33unse
  publication_year: 1900
  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 1900, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Notes

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 NOTES.

 Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth. Cervantes.

 " Tis never offered twice; seize, then, the hour

 When fortune smiles, and duty points the way."

 Those love truth best who to themselves are true, And what they dare to dream of, dare to do. Lowell.

 The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. Emerson.

 There are few things more beautiful than the calm, resolute progress of an earnest spirit. The triumphs of genius may be more dazzling; the chances of good fortune may be more exciting; but neither are at all so interesting or so worthy as the achievements of a faithful, steady and fervent energy. Dr. Tullock.

 The true key to happiness in this life, is to make others happy. Many people are discontented because they look around and find others whose circumstances seem to be more favorable than their own. President Snow counseled the Saints, at the April conference, in 1899, to try to make others happy, and if they were in adverse circumstances, then to try to find some one whose condition was worse than their own. He asserted that pride is an abomination in the sight of the Lord. It is

pride that would cause us to desire a better position than our fellows, but the Spirit of God will fill us with gratitude and thanksgiving, whenever we contemplate the many blessings which are bestowed upon us by our Heavenly Father. A knowledge of the Gospel is of more value to us, provided we shall be faithful in keeping the commandments of God, than all other blessings.