You cannot fail in life if you
will stake an effort on each succeeding attempt twice as great as the
effort which lost you your last desire.
MAN
A combination and a form, indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal
To give the world assurance of a man.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him, that nature might stand up
And say to all the world "This was a man!"--Shakspeare.
"What a piece of worke is a man? How Noble in Reason? how
infinite in faculty? in forme and mouing how expresse and admirable? in
Action how like an Angel? in apprehension how like a God? the beauty of
the world, the Paragon of Animals?" This is the exalted panegyric of the
greatest mind so far vouchsafed to our race--this, then, was
Shakspeare's ideal of a true man. Says Emerson: "O rich and various man!
thou palace of sight and sound, carrying in thy senses the morning and
the night, and the unfathomable galaxy; in thy brain the geometry of the
city of God; in thy heart the power of love and the realms of right and
wrong." "Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless
force," says Chapin; "the world was spread out around him to be seized
and conquered.
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