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[Pg 3]Come, let us live the poetry we sing.
THOUGHTS
Selected from the Writings of Favorite Authors
BY
Ladies of Fabiola Hospital Association
Oakland, California
NEW YORK:
Dodge Publishing Company
53 and 55 Fifth Avenue
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The Compilers acknowledge with grateful thanks the courtesy of Messrs.Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Dodd, Mead and Company (for selectionsfrom Hamilton Wright Mabie’s “Before My Library Fire,” “In theForest of Arden,” and other publications); Little, Brown and Company(selections from Lilian Whiting’s “From Dreamland Sent,” “The WorldBeautiful,” First, Second and Third Series, and other publications),and others in allowing insertion of selections from works of which theyown the copyright.
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Copyrighted, 1901,
by
JESSIE K. FREEMAN and SARAH S. B. YULE.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and thegreat art in life is to have as many of them as possible.
—Bovée.
[Pg 7]To get peace, if you do want it, make for yourselves nests ofpleasant thoughts. None of us yet knows, for none of us hasbeen taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may buildof beautiful thoughts—proof against all adversity. Brightfancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings,treasure-houses of precious and restful thoughts, which carecannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take awayfrom us—houses built without hands for our souls to livein.
—Ruskin.
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