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Show If you can find no peer to travel with you, then walk carefully alone, your goal before, the world behind, better alone with your own heart than with a crowd of babblers. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. How easy it is to be able to lounge away hours and dream away days, unless one is forced to exertion! How we put off some work, some study, some action from one week to another until the time for it is gone. We could do so many things that we do not do, and we know it so well. Says Mrs. Poyser in "Adam Bede," "It's poor work always setting the dead above the livin." We shall all of us be dead some time, I recon - It'ud be better if folks "ad made much on us beforehand instead o' beginnin' when we're gone. It's but little good you'll do awatering last year's crops." |