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Show Most of our desires are best and most quickly accomplished, not by headlong chase after them, but by due regard to other things. He who would be h good mechanic must obtain general information, in-formation, cultivate habits of observation, observa-tion, know something of other trades besides his own, and no more allow his mind to grow rusty than his tools. He who would be a first-rate lawyer must not limit his study to technical law. The artist cannot afford to ignore mathematics, nor the merchant to lose interest in reading. Every employment employ-ment thrives best in the hands of those who unite a fair general knowledge knowl-edge of other things with a specially excellent knowledge of their own. So, when we set ourselves strenuously to accomplish any given task, we need not only perseverance to stick to it, but ability to leave it at proper seasons sea-sons and to turn the mind Into other channels, or the work Itself will be less perfectly and less speedily performed. |