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IT NEVER PAYS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 19, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 13.

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IT NEVER PAYS.

It never pays to fret and growl When fortune seems our foe; The better bred will push ahead And strike the braver blow. For luck is work, And those who shirk Should not lament their doom, But yield the pay And clear the way That better men have room.
It never pays to foster pride And squander time in show: For friends thus won are sure to run In times of want or woe. The noblest worth Of all the earth Are gems of heart and brain, A conscience clear, A household dear, And hands without a stain.
It never pays to hate a foe, Or cater to a friend; To fawn and whine, much less repine, To borrow or to lend. The faults of men Are fewer when Each rows his own canoe; For feuds and debts And pampered pets Unbounded mischief brew.
It never pays to wreck the health In drudging after gain, And he is sold who thinks that gold Is cheaply bought with pain. A humble lot, A cosy cot, Have tempted even kings; For station high That wealth will buy, Not oft contentment brings.
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