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The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.
Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
An undertaking beset with danger.
CHAPTER XLVI THE APPOINTMENT KEPT
Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
... desperate times required judicious risk-taking.
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
Days XIX. An Opinion XX. A Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent.
Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction
Opportunism has suffered the emasculation of being converted into a principle;
The vague torment of ... ambition.
Every seeker has, at one time or another, to pass through a conflict of duties, a heart-churning.
The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.
It is diligence that is supposed to be your greatest possession
Desperate times call for hopeful measures.
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Events and circumstances sometimes conspire against us; if we insist on inflexibility for the purpose of maintaining our beliefs, we end up compromising ourselves nevertheless. We salvage one set of principles only to forsake another.
Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.
CLAIMS require extraordinary evidence
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.
We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There
Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.
Changes are products of intensive efforts.
Choosing to be deligent in all areas of your life is not for the weak of heart. It requires hope, strength and the ability to see the light through the fog.
I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it. They have yearned towards it so long, and so unwaveringly, that I'm convinced it will be reached - and soon - because it has devoured my existence: I am swallowed up in the anticipation of its fulfillment.
Tedium and ennui are the demons of modernity. These haunt us when the routines fail, the narratives dissolve, and time disintegrates (p. 718).
If you discover the secret of diligence then you will not be an ordinary person
Trials come. Tribulation comes. Fires of refinement come. The purpose of refinement is to bring to light the things hidden in darkness and then remove them
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
Life is enduring endeavour
Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search of ambition and ambition's remedy as though in flight across some imagined map, the subject of a conversation in a comfortable English room.
When you are Patient you can be Practical and rationale
Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.
Intense, sustained focus fuels manifestation.
Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct.
Through hardship to the stars
Diligence is God's principle
[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of the eternal laws.
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
When the things get hard, there is a success near about.
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
Ambition's debt is paid.
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate.
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-awaited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.
There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good ...
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish.
Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.
The hope Of active days urged on by flying hours, -
Resolution demands a sacrifice.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Virtues, of ...
Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?
Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions.
Les Miserables, page 674
We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster.
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
See how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation
I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.
In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.
Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.
Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.
In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.
Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.
Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.
our experience is what we attend to
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
Patience is emotional diligence.
The effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night
effort is necessary, enlightened, well-directed and sustained.
The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.