| Making the Most of Life |
Chapter 17 |
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Naturally we are indolent, and fond of ease and self indulgence. We need to be carried out of the beyond ourselves. There is no motive strong enough to do this but love to God and to our fellow men. Supreme love to God makes us desire to do with alacrity everything he commands. Love to our fellow men draws us to all service of sympathy and beneficence for them, regardless of cost. Constrained by such motives, we shall never become laggards in duty.
Swiftness or slowness in duty is very much a mater of habit. As one is trained in early life, one is quite sure to continue in mature years. A loitering child will become a loitering man or woman. The habit grows, as all habits do.
“Lose this day loitering, ‘twill be the same story
Tomorrow, and the next more dilatory;
The indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost, lamenting o’er lost days.
“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute.
What you can do, and think you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grow heated;
Begin it, and the work will be completed.”
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