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1. Neglect of small things is the rock on which the great majority of the human race have
split. Human life consists of a succession of small events each of which is comparatively
unimportant and yet in which these small events are dealt with. Character is built upon
little things well and honorably transacted. The success of a man in business depends
upon his attention to little things. The comfort of a household is the result of small things
well-arranged and duly provided for. Good government can only be accomplished in the
same way-by well-regulated provision for the doing of little things.(102 Words)

2. Unemployment arises from a variety of causes. One that is always recurring, and of the
effects of which we have had a recent example, is the disorganization of industry
resulting from a long war: this is a serious problem admitting of no easy solution at the
best of times. Again, there is the unemployment, which follows a marked diminution in
the quantity of any raw product. Such as cotton: fewer hands are required in the mills
and factories. We may call this cause ‘bad harvest’. Similar but more serious is the effect
of changes in industry due to the invention of machinery which does more work and
requires fewer workers. And yet another serious cause is a strike or lock-out and this is
the more to be deplored because such a stoppage sometimes is due to a very trivial
matter, perhaps the fact that men are working half an hour longer than the regulations of
their union permit.(159 Words)

3. Among the various misfortunes that may happen humanity the loss of health is one of the
severest. All the joys which life can give cannot outweigh the sufferings of the sick. Give
the sick man everything and leave him his suffering and he will feel that half the world is
lost to him. Lay him on a soft silken couch, he will nevertheless groan sleepless under the
pressure of the sufferings, while the miserable beggar blessed with health sleeps sweetly
on the hard ground. Spread his tables with dainty meats and choice drinks, and he will
trust back the hand that prefers them and envy the poor man who thoroughly enjoys his
dry crust. Surround him with pomp of kings; let his chair be a throne, and his crutch a
world-swaying staff; he will look with contemptuous eye on marble, on gold, and on
purple, and would deem himself happy, could he enjoy, even were it under a thatched
roof, the health of the meanest of his servants.(169 Words)

4. Those who face life with a feeling of security are much happier than those who face it
with a feeling of insecurity at any rate so long as their sense of security does not lead
them to disaster. And in a very great many cases, though not in all a sense of security will
itself help a man to escape dangers to which another would succumb. If you are walking
on a chasm, on a narrow plank, you are much more likely to fall if you feel fear than if you
do not. And the same thing applies to the conduct of life. The fearless man may, of course,
meet with sudden disaster, but it is likely that he will pass unscattered through many
difficult situations in which a timid man would come to grief. This usual kind of self
confidence has, of course, innumerable forms. One man is confident on mountains,
another on the sea, and yet another in the air. But general confidence towards life comes
then anything else affections one has need for. And it is this habit of mind considered as a
source of zest that I wish to speak about in the present chapter.(200)