---
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: 8
number: 7
published: 1905-05
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* 8, no. 7 (May 1905): 550.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0807unse
  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: improvementera0807unse
start_page: 550
end_page: 550
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0807unse
  publication_year: 1905
  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 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Notes

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—       — —               —
                                      NOTES.
        Of all the advantages that come to any young man, I believe it to
be demonstrably true that poverty is the greatest.    Holland.
        It would be an unspeakle advantage if men would consider the great
truth, that no man is wise or safe but him that is honest.           Raleigh.
        A man should always have the courage and conviction to do what is
right, and what is for the interest of his principles, no matter whether
he represents a corporation or an individual.
        Hamilton Wright Mabie, in an address to the students of the Eastman Business College said: "If I were a young man or a young woman
going ©ut     in the world   today,   I   should not dare to go out unless I had
given myself every possible educational opportunity         —unless had made
                                                                       I
myself absolutely master of the thing I wanted to do.             I tell   you today
that the tragedy of modern life is the tragedy of the half-educated man
or woman.  It is the tragedy of the man or            woman who wants to do
something and cannot do anything well.''
        The following were Abraham Lincoln's maxims for longevity. "Do
not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; think of
your wife; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good;
steer clear of biliousness; exercise; go slow and        easy;   maybe there are
other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my
friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good life."
     How many people there are in the world who would amount to
something if they only added two qualities to their make-up applica-       —
tion, persistence.  These dreamers waste their energies in making
resolutions which they       never carry out.      They deceive themselves by
thinking that mere        ambition to do something will surely take them
somewhere; but it will not.       Many men are always dreaming of some
great invention or some marvelous discovery in chemistry or physics
something which is going to benefit or revolutionize the world; but they
carry their secret to the grave because they never develop their practical    faculties   commensurately with their dreaming faculties.             Success.