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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 18.

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KIND THOUGHTS.

By Hope Arbor

Let us cherish a memory for pleasant things, And let all the others go. It is never by giving “tit for tat” That we touch the heart of a foe. It is not by dwelling on fancied wrongs That we feel their sting grow less: And malice once entering the heart is sure To crush out all tenderness.
Forgive, forget, though the wrong be great, And your heart be stricken sore; For thinking of trouble makes it worse, And its pain is all the more. Do kindly things to your neighbors, e’en Though they do not so to you. Though they be wrong, unjust, unkind, Keep your own heart ever true.
The heart is a garden, our thoughts the flowers That spring into fruitful life; Have care that in sowing there fall no seed From the weed of cruel strife. Oh! loving words are not hard to say If the heart be loving too. And the kinder thoughts you to others give The kinder their thoughts of you.
—Hope Arbor.