HIS PERSONALITY 



grows old. All manner of fun appeals to 

 him, but no fun, — so called, — over which 

 there is not spread the sweetest delicacy. 



In all his relations with others he is charac- 

 terized by a winning gentleness. And yet he 

 is swiftly roused at any show of deceit or 

 sham. Kindliness, charity, modesty, tender- 

 ness ; intuition ; enormous capacity for work ; 

 unswerving devotion to a friend; intense 

 absorption ; unwearying application ; steadfast- 

 ness in his adherence to the right no matter 

 how others may oppose, but with chivalrous 

 tolerance of those who differ ; a broad, cheerful 

 outlook upon life, ever seeking to find the 

 good and ignore the evil; a wide, deep 

 sympathy for all that makes for uprightness 

 in individual, civic and national life; — above 

 all, the subtle soul of a poet joined to the 

 throbbing heart of a man: these are among 

 the attributes that mark the personality of 

 Luther Burbank. 



At times he is much given to epigrammatic 

 speech: these are among many expressions: 



"No man ever did a great work for hire." 



"I hope that no one will ever be worse for 

 my having lived 



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