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Show Finish What Yon Begin. My old great-grandmother Knox had a way, tells a writer in Golden Days, of making mak-ing her children finish their work. If they began uctinjr thoy must complete it. If they undertook to build a cob house they must not leave it until it was done, and nothing of the work or play to which they set their hands would she allow them to abandon incomplete. How much of life is wasted in unfinished work! Many a man uses up his time in splendid beginnings. The labor devoted to begin ten things and leave them useless would finish five of them and make them profitable and useful. Finish your work. Life is brief. Time is short. Put patient, persistent toil into the matter, aud be assured one complete undertaking un-dertaking will yield yourself more pleasure pleas-ure aud the world more profit than a dozen lair plans. |