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IF YOU will but engrave upon the tablet of your heart this little word — up — and let it lead you, you will never know how to fail.
 

Everything grows up — beautiful fragrant flowers, trees, cities, babies, nations, the world!
 

What you are in this big life is revealed in the way you interpret your up. It's so easy to fall down. Anyone can do that, over and over again. But it's how you get up that counts.
It takes real courage to get up, and stay up.
 

Long ago, that wonderful old patriarch, Edward Everett Hale, said: "Look up — not down." It is the watchword of every passing night, indicative of a sun-strewn dawn, this up of yours!
 

The vision of this onward world is — up. No man ever fell so low but he desired to get up. It is the one great aspiration that the great God plants in our souls.
 

But it isn't enough to get up yourself. You must always remember that —
 

"He climbs highest who helps another up!"

From Up, By George Matthew Adams (1920)