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MY BOY WOODROW, FOUND THIS, INSIPATIONAL PIECE IN A FRAME, AND IT'S HUNG UP ON THE WALL, AND I WOULD READ THIS EVERYDAY, I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ IT AND FEEL THE INSPIRATION!

†Desiderata† GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE & HASTE, & REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE MAY BE IN SILENCE. AS FAR AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your true quietly & clearly;and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant;they too have their story.† Avoid loud & aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;For always there will be greater & lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.† Keep interested in your own career, however humble;it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs;for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you of what virtue there is;many persons strive for high ideals;and everywhere life is full of heroism.† Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love;for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.† Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not stress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue & lonlinesss. Beyond a wholesome discipline,be gentle with yourself.† You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees & the stars;you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.† Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors & aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.† With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.†† FOUND IN OLD SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH,BALTIMORE;DATED 1692

American writer Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) wrote the prose poem "Desiderata" in 1927. In 1956, the Reverend Frederick Kates, rector of Saint Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland, included Desiderata in a compilation of devotional materials for his congregation. The compilation included the church's foundation date: "Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore A.D. 1692". Consequently, the date of the text's authorship was (and still is) widely mistaken as 1692, the year of the church's foundation.

When US Democratic presidential hopeful Adlai Stevenson died in 1965, a guest in his home found the Desiderata near his bedside and discovered that Stevenson had planned to use it in his Christmas cards. This contributed further to the poem becoming widely known.

In concluding her January 8, 1970 interview with David Frost, actress Joan Crawford recited Desiderata.

The text was widely distributed in poster form. Calling it "Spock Thoughts", Leonard Nimoy recited the poem on his 1968 album, Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy. This version also appeared on the 1995 re-release of Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space. His rendition is not the only one to change the second-to-last sentence from "Be Cheerful" to "Be Careful". In late 1971 and early 1972, Les Crane's spoken-word recording of Desiderata (the lead track on his 1971 Warner Bros. album Desiderata) peaked at #8 on the Billboard chart, #4 on the Canadian RPM Magazine chart, and #6 on the UK Melody Maker's chart. It made #4 on the Australian singles chart in 1971. The producers of Crane's recording assumed that the poem was too old to be in copyright, but the publicity surrounding the record led to clarification of Ehrmann's authorship and his family eventually receiving royalties. The British band In the Nurseryadapted the poem to music on its 1992 album Duality.