-Carlyle.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires
is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.--Jonathan Swift.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.--Lord
Chesterfield.

Indulge not in vain regrets for the past, in vainer resolves for the
future--act, act in the present.--F. W. Robertson.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in our power.--Hugh
White.

The man who cannot be practical and mix his religion with his business
is either in the wrong religion or in the wrong business.--Patrick
Flynn.

I don't think there is a pleasure in the world that can be compared
with an honest joy in conquering a difficult task.--Margaret E.
Sangster.

Every right action and true thought sets the seal of its beauty on
every person's face; every wrong action and foul thought its seal of
distortion.--Ruskin.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves.--J. M. Barrie.

Politeness is like an air cushion; there may be nothing in it, but it
eases the jolts wonderfully.--George Eliot.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.
--Benjamin Franklin.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness
without action.--Disraeli.

We would willingly have others perfect and yet we amend not our own
faults.--Thomas a Kempis.

The most manifold sign of wisdom is continued cheer.--Montaigne.

There is only one cure for public distress--and that is public
education, directed to make men thoughtful, merciful, and just.
--Ruskin.

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so.--Wade.

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CHAPTER III

THE JOY OF DOING

Half-way, half-hearted doings never amount to much. Battles are not
won with flags at half-mast. No, they are run up to the very tops of
their standards and are waved as far toward the heavens as is
possible.

If we lack enthusiasm we are almost as certain to fail of achieving an
end as a locomotive engine that lacks steam is of climbing the grade.
Even a listless, lackadaisical spirit may get on all right so long as
the path of life is all on a level or is down grade, but when it comes
to hill-climbing and the real experiences of life that serve to
develop character, it is likely to give up the contest and surrender
the prize it might win to other and more earnest competitors.

"If you woul