Do Everything Well

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 22, 1879

Do Everything Well.

If you have something to attend to, go about it thoughtfully and do it just as well as you can. Do it as though it were the only thing you had ever to do in your life, and as if everything depended upon it; then your work will be done well, and it will afford you genuine satisfaction. Often much more depends upon the manner in which things seemingly trivial are performed, than one would suppose, or than it is possible to foresee. Do everything well and you will find it conducive to your happiness, and that of those with whom you come in contact.

Unlearning.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information ; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, from which we must first erase. Ignorance has no light, but error is a false one.

"Who can understand his errors ?"