Self-Help; With Illustrations of Character And Conduct
The book Self-Help; With Illustrations of Character And Conduct was written by author Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 Here you can read free online of Self-Help; With Illustrations of Character And Conduct book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Self-Help; With Illustrations of Character And Conduct a good or bad book?
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But he will never c?o, if he only wishes. The desire must ripen into purpose and effort ; and one energetic attempt is worth a thousand aspirations. Purposes, like eggs, un- less they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness. It is these thorny " ifs," — the mutterings of impotence and despair, — which so often hedge round the field of possibility, and prevent anything being done or even attempted. "A difficulty," said Lord Lyndhurst, "is a thing to be overcome ; " grapple with it at on...ce ; facility will come with practice, and strength and fortitude with repeated effort. Thus the mind and character may be trained to an almost perfect discipline, enabling it to move with a grace, spirit, and liberty, almost incompre- hensible to those who have not passed through a sim- ilar experience. Everything that we learn is the mastery of a diffi- culty ; and the mastery of one helps us to the mastery of others. Things which may at first sight appear com- paratively valueless in education, — such as the study of the dead languages, and the relations of lines and sur- faces which we call mathematics, — are really of the greatest practical value, not so much because of the in- formation which they yield, as because of the develop- ment which they compel.
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