Download or read book Selections From Occasional Addresses (Classic Reprint) written by Carleton Sprague and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From Occasional Addresses Remember always and hold firmly to it, that work is the soil in which heart and mind thrive and grow into the highest forms of manhood and womanhood, to reach which is, or should be, the supreme aspiration. There is ample Opportunity for each of us treating each moment as it passes as precious - to cultivate our faculties; to ascertain the best that has been thought and said on all subjects of deep moment by the great minds of all ages; to acquire correct and enlightened views; to indulge only in rational modes of enjoyment; to prefer beauty to ugliness; to stand always for what is kindly, courteous, dignified, brave, true; in a word, to combine our powers and opportunities into a personality that is rounded, complete and winning. I would lay great emphasis on the inestimable value and in uence of work. A life in which it is the chief element has its deepest and hardest problems solved, as it were, unconsciously. With it there is no ennui, that black curse of idleness; no time for, or tendency to, morbid introspection, the rock on which so many fine spirits are wrecked; and no occasion for theories of happiness in order to be happy. When every day is filled with the, labors of a serious occupation, there follow disci pline, selfrespect, character, development, pleas ure, as links in the chain of causation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."