<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357627" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Intangible Tigers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a moral in this: tho' I own that the preaching<br>Of moral and maxim in season and out<br>Grows stale; yet these days of depressions far-reaching<br>Demand any means to put worry to rout.<br>So in that menagerie now populated<br>By home-coming chickens and wolves upon mats<br>Consider, when finally doubt's dissipated<br>How often our tigers turn out to be cats.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three-fourths of our troubles some Frenchman has told us,<br>But seldom occur. Tho' the ills of the mind<br>Loom forth as fierce tigers while doubts yet unfold us,<br>They turn into cats once we've put them behind.<br>How often the dread of some darkened tomorrow<br>Has ruined today; till, at Time's urgent call,<br>Tomorrow's false fears become yester's small sorrow <br>Innocuous cats, and not tigers at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, here is the moral - just take it or leave it.<br>It doesn't much matter, you'll scorn it, no doubt.<br>Yet here is a truth and, if men don't receive it<br> I've still done my duty in pointing it out.<br>False troubles, false tigers engender false fearing;<br>So use the grey matter close under your hat<br>And, as you fare forth thro' life's dark forests peering,<br>Go armed against tigers - but still expect cats.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357627" data-title="Intangible Tigers de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="There's a moral in this: tho' I own that the preaching Of moral and maxim in season and out Grows stale; yet these days of depressions far-reaching Demand any means to put worry to rout. So in that menagerie now populated By home-coming chickens a..."></div> </div> </div>

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