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Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Conquest of Worry by Orison

Swet Martin, published in 1924.

As you start out on your day's work each morning, how do you face the world? Do you have a lurking fear in your heart? Or do you start

forth with a fresh supply of that best of all tonics? Courage. The person who never loses

their courage can never be defeated. As Milton says,

What though the field be lost? All is not lost, for there remains the unconquerable will,

and the courage never do submit or yield. Or as the wise old philosopher Tacitus puts it, the gods look with

favor on superior courage. Today as yesterday, we are measured by the spirit that is in us.

We are what our resolution makes us, what our grit and courage make us.

If there is an excellent spirit within you, then the world takes note that you stand for something,

that you are a builder, an achiever, an accomplisher.

Your life is worthwhile.

You are a contributor to civilization.

The things of lasting value in this world have all been done by people with vision and courage.

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