Part 15

FEBRUARY 23

"It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure of life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle, which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is the struggle towards an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further which develops manhood and character."

"Shun idleness, it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals."

VOLTAIRE.

"There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there perpetual despair."

CARLYLE.

"'Twere all as good to ease one breast of grief As sit and watch the sorrows of the world."

The Light of Asia, E. ARNOLD.

Fear of Failure

FEBRUARY 24

"Who would ever stir a finger, if only on condition of being guaranteed against oversights, misinformation, mistakes, ignorance, loss, and danger?"

H. MARTINEAU.

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."

Amiel's Journal.

"He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous."

Amiel's Journal.

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome."

DR. JOHNSON.

Fear of Failure

FEBRUARY 25

"Extreme caution is no less harmful than its opposite."

VAUVENARGUES.

"The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions."

GARFIELD.

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt."

SHAKESPEARE.

"IT is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils which we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen."

HERODOTUS.