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Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.
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Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.
Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.
The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.