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WISHING
Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do:
Set a watch upon your actions,
keep them always straight and true,
rid your mind of selfixh motives,
let your thoughts be clean and high.
You can make a little Eden
of the sphere you occupy.
Do you wish the world were wiser?
Well, suppose you make a start
by accumulating wisdom
in the scrapbook of your heart.
Do not waste one page of folly,
live to learn, and learn to live.
If you want to give men knowledge,
you must get it, ere you give.
Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day
just to settle seeds of kindness
as you pass along the way.
For the pleasures of the many
may be ofttimes traced to one,
as the hand that plants an acorn
shelter armies from the sun
Ella Wheeler Wilcot
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