The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Topic: Goals, Work
- Location: Yosemite National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
