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The Best Thing to Have in the World

2023-10-22 | 🔗

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Podcast Excerpt: An old philosopher once bade his scholars to consider what the best thing to possess was. One student said that there was nothing better than a liberal and contented disposition. Another said a good companion was the best thing in the world. A third said a good neighbor was the best thing a person could desire; and a fourth said the ability to foresee things to come - that is, to be wise.

But at last a student named Joshua said....

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T, o higgins and l w yogi, and all Philosopher once bade his scholars to consider what the best thing to possess was one students There was nothing better than a limb, rolling, contented disposition and others A good companion was the best thing in the world Reed said a good neighbour was the best thing a person could desire and affords the ability to foresee things to come, that is to be wise, but at last the student named joshua said a good heart was better than them all true said, the old teacher you have, comprehended. In two words, all the rest have said for the
person that has a good heart, we'll be contented and a good companion. and a good neighbour be wise. Every man and woman should always consider that a good heart is the best possession. Having this will prove You, too not only do good but it will encompass many virtues MIKE. also to you, is to seize every opportunity of contributing to the good of others sometime The smile will do it more off a kind word. A look of sympathy. Organ and knowledge of obligation, some times a little help to a burden shoulder Heavy we'll will be an order. Some I'm a word or two of good counsel,
seasonable when gentle admonition and then larry times a suggestion of advantage to be gained and how to secure it will be received with lasting gratitude. In the us, every instance of kindness done well acknowledged or not open a little wellspring of happiness in your own brass, the flow of which may be made permanent by habit influences to appear. In what flavour is to fruit or fragrance The flower is not develop, string thought determine character, but it the measure of your interior richness and worth and as the blossom cannot tell what becomes of the oder witches wafted away from it by every wind.
So no individual knows the limit of land influence which, constantly and imperceptibly escapes from their daily life, ngos out far beyond mere conscious knowledge,. There are noxious weeds and fragrance laden flowers in the world of the mind. in the world of matter truly Star they who walk away of life with a generous heart, filling all the air about them with the aroma, which is so suddenly tat still from kindly be helpful, were and unselfish actions. One drop of water helps to swell the ocean spargo. I helps to give life to the world You are a single individual, passing them The crowd you hardly noticed.
You have a drop of sport We feel that may be fell through eternity sand drop in motion give wings to spar behold the results. It major and the world. None are too small to feeble too poor to be of use. earlier, send act Is no a trifle if we were upon marble will and surely perish. If we were, upon brass time will face it. If we build temples, they will slowly crumble in the dust, but if we were, appalling immortal mines. if we view them with high principles in callings, as children of god, we engraved on those tablets, something which note
I'm kind of face, which will brighton to all eternity He would show yourself to be a woman or a man in the truest and noblest sense, though not where people are carving monuments of marble, fain go now. dwellings of the rich go not to the point. Alice's of the kings and queens could the halls of marrying men and pleasure. go rather to those who need your help. whenever that help may be, which you can provide. You were true wealth, hereafter areas, the good you do in this world to your fellow men and women. When you die, some people will say what Kind of welfare property have they left behind, but the aim Those who examine you will ask,
What are the good deeds you have sent before your arrival. Every one of us may in some way or other assist, storing, struck some of Our fellow creatures for them of the human race is poor and needy and We have a mutual dependence on one another. there is nobody who cannot do some good. Everybody is bound to do diligently. All the good they can is by no means enough to be rightly behaved to be serious. Son, religious in our closets. We must be useful to and take care that, while we all red numberless benefits from society, society also may be the better for every one of us. It is false faulty and indolent humility that makes peoples
still and do nothing. because they will not believe that they are capable of doing much for everybody can do something. Everybody can set a good example. too many or to a few, every I can, in some degree encourage virtue in character. Everybody has some one or other whom they can advise warring struck worrying some way, help to guy through life. Those who were too, poor to gave arms in it gave their time less trouble. Their assistance the same, preparing or forwarding the gifts of others. Knocker johnson use Say they who wait to do a great deal of good at once we'll never do any good. is done. My degrees, however,
Small, the benefits that follow individual attempts to do good agree deal may be accomplished by perseverance even in the midst of discouragement, send disappointments if it is made up of little things, it is but Once in an age that occasion is offered for doing a great deed, true greatness, same thing being grade in little things. however, railroads bill by one? shovel of dirt after another, one double full at a time We should be willing to do a little good at a time. and never way to do a great deal of good at once. If we would do much good in the world? Will you be willing to do good in little things. Little lax after another,
setting a good example all the time we must do the first good thing. We can and then the next and the next keep on doing good there is no other greatness when to make some nook of this world a little more fruitful better? more worthy of admiration. To me, some human it's a little wiser, stronger happier, the fur then paramount any move, any religion is not the point air for another world, but to make the best of this world or more correctly stated to make this world better. Why Is there any happier is to be good and do the most good we can now in here. Oh bothers to me and do the same. It is to see
with all our might the highest welfare of the world? We live in, and the realisation of its ideal greatness nobleness and blessedness almost come Building thought is that having beyond will, be a place of white robes and golden harps, but a play He's for living, loving and doing there, is pleasure in contemplating good is greater pleasure in receiving good, The greatest pleasure of all he's in doing good, which envelops the rest. I laboring always to do good, you will make your life comfortable your death happy. accounts glorious. So remember, being
simply good be good for something.
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