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107 fail to enjoy. We need not look for great joys. If you strive to be happy, you may make yourselves happy with the ordinary pleasures and enjoyments of daily life. "Let not the blessings we receive daily from God," says an English writer, "make us not to value, or not praise Him, because they be common." A proverb says : "Let us be merry and happy." Again an old philosopher said : "God has made all men to be happy; therefore, if any one is unhappy, his unhappiness is his own fault."

You may rest assured that, if we are cheerful in mind, nearly all our daily doings will be great pleasures. You may, of course without doubt, regard all sports and plays as pleasures; but there is also pleasure in bathing, dressing, eating, chatting with friends or visitors, and much more in reading books. For all this we must be healthy in body and mind. If your health fails, or if you always grieve over past