Life is full of ups and downs, joys and trials. In this work, we are advised on how to deal with what fate deals us, the good and bad, the common and uncommon. Home, childhood, success and failure, perseverance, dignity, frugality, envy, charity... all these and more are explored in this 'guide to life'.
By : Emory Adams Allen (1853 - 1933) and S. C. Ferguson
000 - Preface
001 - Life
002 - Home
003 - Home Circle
004 - Father and Mother
005 - Infancy
006 - Childhood
007 - Brother and Sister
008 - Manhood
009 - Womanhood
010 - Home Harmonies
011 - Home Duties
012 - Aim of Life
013 - Success or Failure
014 - Dignity of Labor
015 - Perseverence
016 - Enterprise
017 - Energy
018 - Punctuality
019 - Concentration
020 - Decision
021 - Self-Confidence
022 - Practical Talents
023 - Education
024 - Mental Training
025 - Self-Culture
026 - Literature
027 - Mental Power
028 - Choice of Companions
029 - Friends
030 - Power of Custom
031 - Influence
032 - Character
033 - Prudence
034 - Temperance
035 - Frugality
036 - Patience
037 - Self-Control
038 - Courage
039 - Charity
040 - Kindness
041 - Benevolence
042 - Veracity
043 - Honor
044 - Policy
045 - Egotism
046 - Vanity
047 - Selfishness
048 - Obstinacy
049 - Slander
050 - Irritability
051 - Envy
052 - Discontent
053 - Deception
054 - Intermeddling
055 - Anger
056 - Ambition
057 - Politeness
058 - Sociability
059 - Dignity
060 - Affability
061 - The Toilet
062 - Gentleness
063 - Modesty
064 - Love
065 - Courtship
066 - Marriage
067 - Single Life
068 - Married Life
069 - Duties of Married Life
070 - Trials of Married Life
071 - Husband and Wife
072 - Jealousy
073 - Regret
074 - Memory
075 - Hope
076 - Prosperity
077 - Trifles
078 - Leisure
079 - Happiness
080 - True Nobility
081 - A Good Name
082 - Meditation
083 - Principles
084 - Opportunity
085 - Duty
086 - Trials
087 - Sickness
088 - Sorrow
089 - Poverty
090 - Affliction
091 - Disappointments
092 - Failure
093 - Despondency
094 - Faith
095 - Worship
096 - Religion
097 - God in Nature
098 - The Bible
099 - Future Life
100 - Time and Eternity
101 - The Evening of Life
102 - He who died at Azan (poem)
The design of this work is to rouse to honorable effort those who are wasting their time and energies through indifference to life's prizes. In the furtherance of this aim the authors have endeavored to gather from all possible sources the thoughts of those wise and earnest men and women who have used their pens to delineate life and its possibilities, its joys and its sorrows. They do not claim to have furnished more than the setting in which are placed these "Gems" of thought gathered thus from sources widely different.
Their hope is, that they may be able to rouse in the minds of the careless a sense of the value of existence. To those who are striving nobly for true manhood or womanhood, they would fain bring words of encouragement. They trust that many may derive from its pages inspirations which will serve to make real their hopes of success and happiness.
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