---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Crocheron, George W.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 6
number: 4
published: 1903-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'George W. Crocheron, "Some Sayings," *Improvement Era* 6, no. 4 (February 1903): 256.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse
  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: improvementera0604unse
start_page: 256
end_page: 256
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse
  publication_year: 1903
  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 1903, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Some Sayings

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256 IMPROVEMENT ERA.
Ye call to mind old stories, fancies crude,
Told in an earlier world—
Of Titan wars, when god*, in angry mood,
These mighty missiles hurled.
And, even now, those slumb'ring powers might wake,
E'en as we draw this breath;—
Might from those awful heights some fragments break,
Bringing quick ruin and death.
And here, methinks, a death so quick and sure
'Twere not amiss to die,
Where thoughts rise, like those lone peaks, high and pure,
And of eternity.
And, strong in faith and hope, the soul to rise
Triumphant o'er the scene,
And gaze with calm and gently wond'ring eyes
Where once its fears had been.
Triumphant?   Yes.   Then frown, thou rocky crest!
And threaten vengeance blind:
Not all the forces pent within your breast
Can crush the human mind.
SOME SAYINGS.
When an idea is clothed in the garment of discretion, the
fashion cannot be improved upon.
In railroad parlance, do not "side track" your good thoughts,
for that would be eccentric, but let them be uttered,- held on the
main track, for the benefit of others.
Adversity tries the spirit but hope, encouraged by determined
resolution, will enable one to fcale the ramparts of fate in the
great battle of life, and bring success to crown the victor with the
laurels of prosperity.—George W. Crocheron.