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Show WORK AND LIVE. Man was put into the world to work, and cannot find true happiness in remaining idle. So long as a man has vitality to spare upon work it must be used or it will become a source of grievous, harassing discontent. The man will not know what to do with himself, and when he has reached such a point as that he is unconsciously digging a grave for himself and fashioning his own coffin. Life needs a steady channel to run in - regular habits of work and of sleep. It needs a steady, stimulating aim - a tendency toward something. Any aimless life cannot be happy or for a long period healthy. Even if a man has achieved wealth sufficient for his needs, he frequently makes an error in retiring from business. A greater shock can hardly befall a man who has been active than that which he experiences when having relinquished his pursuits he finds unused time and unused vitality hanging upon his idle hands and mind. The current of his life is thus thrown into eddies or settled into a sluggish pool and he begins to die. When the fund of vitality sinks so low that he can follow no labor without such a draught upon his forces that sleep cannot restore them, then it will be soon enough to stop work. |