Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1917 — No One Is More Unhappy Than the Impatient Man [ARTICLE]

No One Is More Unhappy Than the Impatient Man

No man is more constantly unhappy, or makes others more so, than the impatient man. He is out of harmony with things; and all things fight and worry and wound him. He Ijfels himself dishonored, too. by his impatience; and he does lose so far as he indulges it, the true dignity of life. He is not cast, indeed, like the victim pf sensual vice, into the slough of dishonor; his garment perhaps is not soiled ; but it is burnt through in a thousand spots, by the everdropping little sparks of petulance; and it is in tatters and disorder with the ever-crossing flurries of angry passion; and he seems to himself and to others as one who scrambles through life, rather than as one who walks in the calm and dignified robe of conscious self-possession. Constant fretting and faultfinding and breaking out into sarcasm and anger may bereave-a house of all honor, peace and comfort, almost as effectively as gluttony and drunkenness. Or suppose that the fretful temper be hidden and smothered in the heart; then it wastes and consumes the springs of the inmost life. —Orville Dewey.