The Optimist sees the doughnut, the Pessimist sees the hole.  The Pessimist asks:  “Is there any milk in that pitcher?” The Optimist asks:  “Will you please pass the cream?” A Pessimist is a man who winds an eight-day clock every night.  An Optimist is a man who gives his clock away so as not to lose any good time winding it.  A Pessimist is a person so disagreeable, he won’t eat anything that agrees with him.  An Optimist is a person who can eat a cottage pudding so agreeably that you think he is enjoying a brown stone palace on Riverside Drive.

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“God give us men!  A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoil of office does not buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor, men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue,
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! 
Tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.”

J.G.  HOLLAND.

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The Author of these Lessons has been a student of Psychotherapy, Mental Suggestions, and the Laws of Personal Power, for twenty-eight years.  During that time has lectured extensively in the United States, and by direct and indirect personal advice has helped many thousands of men and women to overcome severe forms of mental, physical and personal conditions, restoring them to active usefulness.

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