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 if ((month == 0) && (date == 3)) document.write("However little luck there may be in the world, the plucky people get the first chance at it.");
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 if ((month == 0) && (date == 14)) document.write("Friendship should be approached with respect, not given away with a cup of tea.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 15)) document.write("There is only one real freedom in life, and that is freedom from self.");
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 if ((month == 0) && (date == 17)) document.write("An eyelid hides the sky.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 18)) document.write("He who sets limits to himself will always be expected to remain within them.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 19)) document.write("I bless God I have been inured to difficulties, and I never found God failing when I trusted in Him.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 20)) document.write("Every man has his gift, and the tools go to them that can use them.");
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 if ((month == 0) && (date == 24)) document.write("Silence is like sleep, it refreshes wisdom");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 25)) document.write("The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder and worship, is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 26)) document.write("Anyone who is satisfied with the progress he is making is old.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 27)) document.write("Would you dare to maintain, though life has truncheoned you more often than most men, that you have wept more often than you have laughed?");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 28)) document.write("Encouragement is the salt of endeavour. An appreciative pat can be a welcome spur.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 29)) document.write("Real charity cannot stay at home.");
 if ((month == 0) && (date == 30)) document.write("It is better to leave 'ifs' and 'might have beens' lying by the wayside if we want to get on upon life's journey.");
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  // February
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 if ((month == 1) && (date == 2)) document.write("One man's platitude is another man's discovery");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 3)) document.write("There shall never be one lost good.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 4)) document.write("Never be afraid to doubt, if only you have the disposition to believe.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 5)) document.write("The wrong motive always invites defeat, the right motive <I>cannot</I> be vanquished.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 6)) document.write("God's right hand rests on every gate, and He swings the right one open at the right time.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 7)) document.write("How a man handles a situation is a much more important thing than the situation itself.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 8)) document.write("There is more satisfaction in looking through the telescope of faith than into the microscope of criticism.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 9)) document.write("A sense of humour is the philosophy of the unbeaten.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 10)) document.write("The hour of crisis never makes or unmakes us. That hour shows forth what is in us.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 11)) document.write("The verb 'to be happy' has neither present nor future tense - it is conjugated in the conditional.");
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 if ((month == 1) && (date == 14)) document.write("It is not the going out of port, but the coming in that determines the success of the voyage.");
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 if ((month == 1) && (date == 16)) document.write("Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and as friendly to the mind as to the body.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 17)) document.write("Morality is not properly the doctrine how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 18)) document.write("Whatever you are, be a good one.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 19)) document.write("Freedom is educated capacity.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 20)) document.write("Tradition loses its inspiration when it is used as a leaning post.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 21)) document.write("It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 22)) document.write("An ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 23)) document.write("Things obtained by prayer have few thorns in them.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 24)) document.write("If a sparrow cannot fall without God's knowledge, how can an empire rise without His aid?");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 25)) document.write("Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest effects with the fewest materials - sun, trees, flowers, water, and love ");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 26)) document.write("Yet saints their watch are keeping, their cry goes up <I>'How Long?'</I>; And soon the night of weeping shall be the morn of song.");
 if ((month == 1) && (date == 27)) document.write("Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have had a striving grand enough to be called a failure.");
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 if ((month == 2) && (date == 5)) document.write("Taking the first step with the good thought; the second step with the good word and the third step with the good deed, I entered Paradise.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 6)) document.write("Everybody has to pay for experience, there are no bargains");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 7)) document.write("No one can see beyond the range of his vision. We must not be down upon those whom God has created a wee bit short-sighted.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 8)) document.write("The world must return some day to the word 'duty' and be done with the word 'reward'.  There are no rewards and plenty of duties.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 9)) document.write("Build upon resolve, not upon regret.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 10)) document.write("A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 11)) document.write("The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 12)) document.write("A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 13)) document.write("Take it as good, and soe 'twill prove to thee.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 14)) document.write("No one was ever corrected by a sarcasm.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 15)) document.write("People ask about human nature improving. I have seen it improve.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 16)) document.write("The world deals good-naturedly with good-natured people.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 17)) document.write("If it weren't for the rain, there wouldn't be any hay to make when the sun shines.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 18)) document.write("Infinite toil will not enable you to sweep away a mist, but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 19)) document.write("Sincerity simplifies everything.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 20)) document.write("It is only the supremely wise or the deeply ignorant who never alter.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 21)) document.write("The woods would be very silent if no birds sang but those who sang the best.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 22)) document.write("Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 24)) document.write("Joys as winged dreams fly past. Why should sadness longer last.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 25)) document.write("It is no use saying 'I have not time' because we have all the time there is.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 26)) document.write("The most helpful people in the world are ever the most hopeful. To believe the best of life is to encourage it.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 27)) document.write("To our question 'Why' Gods reply is 'Trust'");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 28)) document.write("The clouds themselves are children of the sun.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 29)) document.write("If sorrow comes, is gladness far behind.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 30)) document.write("What your heart feels to be great, <U>is</U> great, for the emphasis of the soul is always right.");
 if ((month == 2) && (date == 31)) document.write("Greatness is to hear the bugles, and not to shout.");
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 if ((month == 3) && (date == 1)) document.write("Given the sun to shine on us, the birds to sing to us, the flowers to bloom for us, our strength should be equal to the gods.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 2)) document.write("The way to know a country is to walk through it, the way to know a book is to <I>think</I> through it.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 3)) document.write("Faith moves in a larger orbit than reason because reason is earthbound. Faith mounts above the things of time and sense, until it bows in humble adoration before God.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 4)) document.write("The great thing to learn of life is not to be afraid of it.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 5)) document.write("Though we may be learned by the help of another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 6)) document.write("The universe is not quite complete without your little work well done.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 7)) document.write("We often fail in our strongest point, just because we think it unnecessary to guard it.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 8)) document.write("A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 9)) document.write("The habits we permit are the moulds in which our lives are cast.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 10)) document.write("You have some chance of finding your ideal outside yourself when you have, as much as possible, accomplished it within yourself.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 11)) document.write("Today man sows the cause, and God tomorrow ripens the effect.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 12)) document.write("Opportunity knocks, but it does not guarantee to wake a man from a sound sleep.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 13)) document.write("If a man comes to a halt and analyses his motives and distrusts the value of the thing he strives for, then the odds are that his halt is final.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 14)) document.write("There are plenty of things wrong in the world, but they are not hopelessly wrong.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 15)) document.write("In every crisis 'What shall <B>we</B> do' is better than 'What <B>shall</B> we do.'");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 16)) document.write("Anger may glance into the bosom of wise men, but rest only in the bosom of fools.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 17)) document.write("Make your own sunshine. It may not brown the skin, but it will warm the heart.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 18)) document.write("Anger is a stone cast into a wasps nest.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 19)) document.write("If it is right, there is no other way.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 20)) document.write("Finding out, not knowledge is the spring that makes life fascinating.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 21)) document.write("The great power of prayer consists, not in asking, but in learning how to receive.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 22)) document.write("Time is always on the side of the courageous.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 23)) document.write("Faith does not want to see things. Faith causes them to be seen.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 24)) document.write("It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty to do.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 25)) document.write("You will never row far from shore if you turn back at the first blister.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 26)) document.write("Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace like a clock during a thunderstorm.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 27)) document.write("If the 'Is this cricket' enters your mind, then it probably is'nt.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 28)) document.write("Cheerfulness is the principal ingredient in the composition of health.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 29)) document.write("So let it be my task each day to smile and say a cheery word, to hum a tune upon my way, though mishap it may not be heard.");
 if ((month == 3) && (date == 30)) document.write("Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see.");
  // May
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 1)) document.write("Hope, folding her wings, looked backward and became Regret.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 2)) document.write("Character is the only thing we can make in this world and take into the next.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 3)) document.write("Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it, that's enough for any man.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 4)) document.write("Never mistake difficulties for impossibilities.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 5)) document.write("Don't lose courage, the second place is next to the first.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 6)) document.write("Duties are all 'nows'.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 7)) document.write("Nothing is too bad to be incurable, nothing too good to be hoped for, nothing too high to be attempted and nothing so precious that we cannot afford to give it away.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 8)) document.write("We can all have a sunny disposition without the fear of getting freckles.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 9)) document.write("God in His goodness sees, beneath some failures, great successes.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 10)) document.write("Difficulties are God's errands - and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 11)) document.write("No man can do more than his best, but a good many men can do more than they think is their best.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 12)) document.write("God often says <B>'Wait'</B> but he never says <B>'Worry'.</B>");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 13)) document.write("If thou hast a sorrow, tell it to thy saddle-bow and ride thee, singing, forth.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 14)) document.write("Our desire for better things is the prophecy of our possession.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 15)) document.write("No matter when your birthday was, you will begin to grow old when you begin to let go of life.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 16)) document.write("Let's swear always to be kind to people who are down on their luck, and then when we are kind, let's be a little kinder.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 17)) document.write("Mind thee always tells the truth, my son - but mind thee isn't always telling it.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 18)) document.write("The Devil tempts every man, except the idle man, and he tempts the Devil.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 19)) document.write("Give your foes the benefit of the doubt, but give your friends the benefit of your faith.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 20)) document.write("The wiser men are, the less they talk about <I>cannot</I>.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 21)) document.write("What does it matter if you lose, when you play well.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 22)) document.write("Knowledge shows us how to do a thing in all possible ways, including the wrong way. Wisdom leads us to the one way that is right.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 23)) document.write("Of all the delusions perhaps none is so great as the thought that our past has ruined our present, that the evils we have done, the mistakes we have committed, have made all further hope impossible.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 24)) document.write("There are many of us who look on the bright side, but how few of us remember to keep it polished.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 25)) document.write("We know no more of tomorrow than this, that Providence will rise much earlier than the sun.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 26)) document.write("You may have time again, but not <I>the</I> time.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 27)) document.write("It is worth more to be the head of a mouse than the tail of a lion.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 28)) document.write("Tomorrow is God's property.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 29)) document.write("Don't live in hope, with your arms folded.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 30)) document.write("You will never plough your fields by merely turning them over in your mind.");
 if ((month == 4) && (date == 31)) document.write("It is the test of excellence that it can never be bygone.)");
 // June
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 1)) document.write("In warm moments make your resolution, and in cold moments make that resolution good.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 2)) document.write("You may be helpful or harmful, but you <I>count.</I>");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 3)) document.write("There may be just enough clouds in your life to make a glorious sunset.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 4)) document.write("Chance is God's incognito.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 5)) document.write("The power men possess to annoy me, I give them.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 6)) document.write("If you go down, keep on swimming and you will come to the top.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 7)) document.write("If ever there was a country for which a man might work with pride, surely it is our own.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 8)) document.write("Difficulty is a bush that can grow roses.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 9)) document.write("There is no more dust in a sunbeam than in the rest of the room.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 10)) document.write("It is easy to dodge responsibility, but we cannot dodge the consequences of having dodged it.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 11)) document.write("It is only man who reckons time as <I>day and night.</I> The song of creation puts it in the right order - <I>evening and morning.</I>");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 12)) document.write("Satisfaction with the average will cause it to drop.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 13)) document.write("My idea of an optimist is one who believes that things will come right if he works to put them right.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 14)) document.write("There is no mind like like an open mind, and there is no mouth like a closed mouth.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 15)) document.write("If thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 16)) document.write("Mankind is divided into two classes 'Those who <I>will</I> and do' and 'Those who <I>wish</I> and don't.'");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 17)) document.write("The past is only something to learn from.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 18)) document.write("Patience sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes and subdues pride. She bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptation, endures persecution; patience overcomes all things.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 19)) document.write("God often works like the Gobelin tapestry weavers, from the back, and so that the working is not seen. What one does see is an extremely ugly confusion, which appears to have no value; the work finished, the cloth is turned and behold, a masterpiece.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 20)) document.write("What we want among mankind is more 'movies' and less 'talkies'.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 21)) document.write("Man is not an accomplished fact, but a bundle of possibilities.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 22)) document.write("Our work should be effective rather than have a fine effect, or <I>be</I> good rather than <I>appear</I> good.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 23)) document.write("You can do just as much harm through not understanding, as through unkindness.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 24)) document.write("Never say 'no' from pride or 'yes' from weakness.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 25)) document.write("Silence is a fence round wisdom.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 26)) document.write("The lesson of life is to believe what the years and centuries say against the hours.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 27)) document.write("We often make life unhappy in wishing things to have turned out otherwise than they did, merely because that is possible to the imagination which is impossible to fact.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 28)) document.write("The pessimist's mud is the optimist's soil.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 29)) document.write("As their dangers were great, so their God was greater.");
 if ((month == 5) && (date == 30)) document.write("You may be ploughing crooked, and by twilight, but better plough by dim light than no light, a crooked furrow than none at all.");
 // July
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 1)) document.write("So long as you have no past to look back upon, so long as you do not worry about the future, and so long as you are keen on the work which you have selected, you are a youth as long as you live.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 2)) document.write("Joy is God's pay for good work.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 3)) document.write("Faith to prayer is like the feather to the arrow.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 4)) document.write("If you want to find luck, look for it in the dictionary. If you want to create it, work.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 5)) document.write("It is never too late to give up our prejudices");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 6)) document.write("The wise man expects future things, but does not depend upon them.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 7)) document.write("Do not make prayer a <I> run-away knock</I>  - wait for for an answer.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 8)) document.write("'I must do something' will solve more problems than 'Something must be done'.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 9)) document.write("Thou knowest what thou dost desire; He knoweth what is good for thee. ");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 10)) document.write("Let us keep our language noble, for we still have heroes to commemorate.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 11)) document.write("Philosophy is the application of a sense of humour to the disproportionate seriousness of life.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 12)) document.write("It is a good thing to speak the truth, but it is a better thing to know the truth and - <I>to talk about date stones.</I>");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 13)) document.write("There are two kinds of folded hands, those that lie upon empty laps, and those that lie upon finished work.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 14)) document.write("Too much of the white man's burden is carried at the waistline.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 15)) document.write("One would never get through the furzecroft if one stopped to pull out the prickles.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 16)) document.write("'The older I am,' said Habit, 'The longer I shall live.'");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 17)) document.write("Courage . . . There is little else worth speaking about . . . It is the lovely virtue - the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 18)) document.write("Success is won by never grudging trouble.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 19)) document.write("He who knows others is clever, but he who knows himself is enlightened.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 20)) document.write("The clock that won't strike one will never strike twelve.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 21)) document.write("Duty is what you give to life; respect is what you get from it.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 22)) document.write("Good luck is the lazy man's estimate of a thrifty man's success.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 23)) document.write("We ourselves determine whether the weight of our years shall be cargo or ballast.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 24)) document.write("Liberty is not an end; it is a means and needs discipline.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 25)) document.write("It would do some of us good if we deliberately set ourselves to count up the amount of pleasures we can take for nothing.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 26)) document.write("No human power ever beat back a resolute forlorn hope.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 27)) document.write("The things that belong to a man must be understood in order that they may be loved; the things that belong to God must be loved in order that they may be understood.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 28)) document.write("Faithfulness - tomorrow - is easy; but the only faithfulness that counts is faithfulness today.");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 29)) document.write("'Tain't overwise to get t' thinkin' what ye are an' what ye ain't. Let other folks do that. Jest be somethin'.' ");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 30)) document.write("When Alexander the Great was asked how he conquered the world, he answered, 'By not delaying.'");
 if ((month == 6) && (date == 31)) document.write("We are as much inclined to underrate our possibilities as to overrate our achievements.");
 // August
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 1)) document.write("If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 2)) document.write("If you would find your true proportion, measure the realities of your yesterdays against the dreams of your tomorrows.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 3)) document.write("Do not go through life as if you have already explored all its glad surprises.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 4)) document.write("A ministry of thought is the great need of today.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 5)) document.write("England has two books, one which it has made and one which has made it - Shakespeare and the Bible.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 6)) document.write("The universe has a thousand doors on which is written, 'Knock and it shall be opened to you.'");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 7)) document.write("While the world disputes, I believe.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 8)) document.write("Let us remember that a pessimist can never see things as they are, because he has put out the light.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 9)) document.write("God will not show you the future: He will go with you all the way.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 10)) document.write("It is the far-sighted only who see what is close to them.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 11)) document.write("There is never much trouble in any family where the children secretly hope some day to resemble their parents.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 12)) document.write("Every prayer is answered God's way.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 13)) document.write("If the weather is good enough for you to get out of doors, you can make your own sunshine.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 14)) document.write("Let that bright, certain, infinite future dwarf the imperfect past.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 15)) document.write("If he who firmly purposeth often faileth, what shall he do who seldom or feebly purposeth anything.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 16)) document.write("The most difficult sum in addition is to count our blessings.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 17)) document.write("Habits have no eyes, and do not see the dangers ahead.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 18)) document.write("Better by far that you forget to smile than that you should remember to be sad.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 19)) document.write("Great crises in life are the times to meet great blessings as well as great difficulties.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 20)) document.write("Be not like a signpost, but go the way you point.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 21)) document.write("I always think it is the <I>'just going to'</I> that <U>never</U> goes.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 22)) document.write("Out of every moment of life, in spite of all ordeals, it is possible to get one of two things - either more happiness or more character."); 
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 23)) document.write("'Consider, Sir, how insignificant this will appear a twelvemonth hence.' Were this consideration to be applied to most of the little vexatious incidents of life . . . it would prevent many painful sensations.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 24)) document.write("Let us not think always of what we have <I>lost,</I> but also of what we have <I>kept.</I>");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 25)) document.write("The only criticism which hurts is that which we really deserve.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 26)) document.write("Exertion is greater than destiny.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 27)) document.write("Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 28)) document.write("The more unlikely I am to be successful, the more diligently will I strive and study.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 29)) document.write("Recreation is the breathing of the soul. Spill not the morning in recreations, for sleep itself is recreation; add not, therefore, sauce to sauce.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 30)) document.write("Do not forget that while you fold your hands, Time folds not up its wings.");
 if ((month == 7) && (date == 31)) document.write("Nobody is pathetic whose life is lit by a purpose");
 // September
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 1)) document.write("But I will tell you, my lord fool, out of the nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 2)) document.write("Waiting is often necessary. That is why patience is a virtue. But you must know what you are waiting for.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 3)) document.write("Life is rather like an elephant. What is in front is very much like what is behind.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 4)) document.write("Fortune sells many things to the hasty, which she gives to the slow.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 5)) document.write("Let the council of thine own heart stand: . . . for a man's mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in a high tower.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 6)) document.write("Know you what it is to be a child. It is to believe in love, to believe in lovliness, to believe in belief. It is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything; it is to live in a nutshell and to count yourself the King of infinite space.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 7)) document.write("'If' and 'When' were planted and 'nothing' grew.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 8)) document.write("What a great number of impossible tasks have been accomplished by fellows who did not know that they were impossible.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 9)) document.write("The door of truth never opens to the key of prejudice.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 10)) document.write("Youngsters should get scratched in gathering their own blackberries.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 11)) document.write("It may be the height of courage to say 'I dare not,' and the height of love to say 'I will not.'");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 12)) document.write("Time respects little that which is made without him.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 13)) document.write("There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 14)) document.write("<I>Certainty</I> eats more midday rice than <I>Hope.</I>");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 15)) document.write("Has the man who waits for his ship to come in, ever sent it out.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 16)) document.write("Choose well: thy choice is brief, and yet endless.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 17)) document.write("In the tug-of-war between Hope and Despair, Hope wins if you grip the rope with two hands,   Courage and Determination.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 18)) document.write("It is not the eye for faults, but beauties, that constitutes the real critic.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 19)) document.write("When the eve has its last streak, the night has its first star.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 20)) document.write("It is better to be at the bottom, looking up, than at the top, looking down.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 21)) document.write("A man may have to walk in a deep shadow, but he has no right to sit in it.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 22)) document.write("We can all see when our brothers are blind, but can we always see more clearly than our blind brothers.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 23)) document.write("Faith is not asking God for bushels and setting out a pint measure to catch them in.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 24)) document.write("Man prays to God because he feels instinctively that there is a power outside himself, yet the answer to such prayer depends on man himself.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 25)) document.write("Your old failures, your old resolutions, your old hopes - these cannot be all waste: they can be wonderfully transformed, but they cannot be thrown away.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 26)) document.write("Seek good fortune, do not wait for a stroke of luck.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 27)) document.write("The things you buy by experience never drop in value.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 28)) document.write("It is always wise to augment the circumstances of the mind. Nothing does that like curiosity.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 29)) document.write("A day should be praised at night; a sword when it is tried; ice when it is crossed.");
 if ((month == 8) && (date == 30)) document.write("What we need is not faith in more things, but more faith in a few profound things.");
 // October
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 1)) document.write("A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 2)) document.write("If one is climbing a very high mountain which will tax all one's strength, nothing fatigues so much as casting upward glances to the top: nothing encourages so much as casting downward glances.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 3)) document.write("Opportunities cannot be pickled.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 4)) document.write("A very little key will open a very heavy door.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 5)) document.write("Old age is only a different kind of merriment from youth, and a wiser.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 6)) document.write("Do not peer into the troubled waters in the wake of your ship. Lengthen the focus of your glasses and look ahead.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 7)) document.write("We may grow wiser and sadder, but the greatest wisdom is not sadness.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 8)) document.write("When a man has two talents, much will depend upon whether he regrads them as the double of one or the half of four.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 9)) document.write("There is no sense in scoring bull's eyes on the wrong target.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 10)) document.write("The points in the <I>Compass of Life</I> are Purity, Love, Obedience and Truth.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 11)) document.write("Thought . . . is an adventure against infinity and the truths to which thought attains are always futile.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 12)) document.write("Too much is seldom enough; pumping after your bucket is full prevents it keeping so.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 13)) document.write("There are three things that ought to be considered before some things are spoken - the manner, the place and the time.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 14)) document.write("You picture to yourself the beauty of bravery and steadfastness and then some little wretched miserable duty comes,  which is your martyrdom - the lamp for your oil - and you do not do it your oil is spilled.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 15)) document.write("Those who have heard the word of God can bear His silence.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 16)) document.write("It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the province of wisdom to listen.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 17)) document.write("All is not failure that is not success.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 18)) document.write("'Time enough,' is a saying which is opium for the indolent but a stimulous for the the conscientious.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 19)) document.write(", When we are handicapped in life's race, it is not that we may lose, but that we may have the greater victory.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 20)) document.write("Consider difficulties in the light of eternity.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 21)) document.write("More motive is often better than more method.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 22)) document.write("Sometimes the thing we want is at our elbows and we cannot grasp it because we reach too far.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 23)) document.write("Adventures happen on dull days, not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 24)) document.write("Success may be a colossal failure if too much is sacrificed to it.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 25)) document.write("The advantage of leisure is mainly that we have the power of choosing our own work; not certainly that it confers any privelege of idleness.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 26)) document.write("In plan, include the whole; in execution, take life day by day.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 27)) document.write("Someone has made a scratch on a great masterpiece: This is the relation of <I>Truth</I> to <I>Error.</I>");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 28)) document.write("Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting Might that fashioned forth the loveliness had other aims than my delight.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 29)) document.write("Time, though an enemy to the person, is a friend to the mind.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 30)) document.write("The ideal, is not always put there to be attained, but to serve as an aim. Such is the precept about loving your enemies.");
 if ((month == 9) && (date == 31)) document.write("Faith is a private capital, kept in one's house.");
 // November
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 1)) document.write("Whoever seeketh knowledge and findeth it, will get two rewards; one of them for desiring it and the other for attaining it.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 2)) document.write("He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 3)) document.write("It is much easier to be good when living with people who laugh, than with those who always notice when the wind is in the East.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 4)) document.write("Life is a ship. Employ the best Pilot.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 5)) document.write("Struggles bring the most unlikely things within reach.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 6)) document.write("The optimist calls <I>half-empty half-full,</I> and the pessimist calls <I>half-full half-empty.</I>");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 7)) document.write("Discipline is the chisel which is to let the Angel out from the rough block of life.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 8)) document.write("Never let what you don't know upset what you do know.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 9)) document.write("Conscience is a compass, but the most dependable needs testing for accuracy.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 10)) document.write("One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 11)) document.write("Remember the love of them who came not home from the War.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 12)) document.write("Success in all things is the converted 'try'.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 13)) document.write("Thought is not all; conduct is not all; life is unspeakably impoverished if it is unhallowed by the sanctities of reverence and worship.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 14)) document.write("The scrutiny of human nature on a small scale is one of the most dangerous of employments; the study of it on a large scale is one of the safest and truest.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 15)) document.write("The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 16)) document.write("An idea is capital, experience is capital, more important than money to make a fortune.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 17)) document.write("Going slowly does not prevent arriving.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 18)) document.write("It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 19)) document.write("Being brave carries its dividends quicker than any investment I know.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 20)) document.write("Those who do not await any gifts from chance have conquered fate.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 21)) document.write("In Bridge, In Love and In Business, err on the slow side.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 22)) document.write("They always seem to send you t'bitterest med'cine when you're on t'mend - to brace you up, like, I suppose.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 23)) document.write("A wretched invention for people who wish to push on is a line of retreat, an everlasting inducement to look behind, when they should have enough to do in looking ahead. ");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 24)) document.write("Do not mistake the exceptional for the important.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 25)) document.write("Faith is not faith unless it is stretched to breaking point, and does not break.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 26)) document.write("'Many tastes and one hobby' is no bad ideal.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 27)) document.write("<I>Esprit de Corps</I> doesn't bubble up from the bottom. It filters down from the top. An organisation is what its commanding officer is - neither better nor worse.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 28)) document.write("Hem your blessings with praise, lest they unravel.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 29)) document.write("To be womanly is the greatest charm of woman.");
 if ((month == 10) && (date == 30)) document.write("My life may be one of God's thoughts - a thread in the robe he is weaving.");
  // December
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 1)) document.write("Remember God and go on.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 2)) document.write("He that won't hear, can't judge.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 3)) document.write("It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer with.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 4)) document.write("Be sure in the beginnin', an' then don't never touch the underpinnin'. ");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 5)) document.write("Deal courageously and the Lord shall be with the good.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 6)) document.write("I am positive I have a <I>soul</I>; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 7)) document.write("A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 8)) document.write("The world moves forward on the proposition that what is impossible can be done.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 9)) document.write("Make happy the near, and the far will come to you.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 10)) document.write("Do not be too sure that your opinions are right: only make sure your aims are right.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 11)) document.write("If we can be certain of anything at all, it is that there is nothing in evil that can be eternal.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 12)) document.write("When you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best advised decision.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 13)) document.write("What a happy mortal I am!..for being neither crushed by the present nor afraid of what is to come.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 14)) document.write("We hope and we plan and we strain ourselves to breaking point, but God always has the last word. . .  and His word is the best word, though we do not always see it so.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 15)) document.write("Never be in a hurry, do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 16)) document.write("There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincere earnestness.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 17)) document.write("To secure success, concentrate your powers: If you once begin to sprawl you are lost.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 18)) document.write("Freedom from worry is an attitude towards life - a matter of realising that this affair of being alive is only part of a great mystery that is beyond and behind life.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 19)) document.write("To stumble without falling is to advance on your way.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 20)) document.write("There's summat new I want to learn, but I dunno' if it's in the books. . . . It's an old ancient charm, and it's called content.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 21)) document.write("He won't say 'It's winter,' he'll say 'Summer's sleeping.' ");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 22)) document.write("England has saved herself before by her courage. She will now save Europe by her example.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 23)) document.write("To see how little we can do is to exist. To see how much we can do is to live.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 24)) document.write("Haste is the abuse of time.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 25)) document.write("Patience should not end in apathy, but in perseverance.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 26)) document.write("Thoughts are forces. Each comes back laden with the effect that corresponds to itself and of which it is the cause.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 27)) document.write("Where there is no vision, the people perish.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 28)) document.write("You become a person of promise, not by promising many things, but by accomplishing what you promise.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 29)) document.write("If you leave yourself to drift, you always drift the wrong way.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 30)) document.write("Prayer is dominant desire calling God into alliance.");
 if ((month == 11) && (date == 31)) document.write("Arise, why look behind, when hope is all before.");
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