Lose this day loitering,--'t will be the same story
To-morrow, and the next more dilatory;
The indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting over days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute,
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated,--
Begin,
And then the work
Will be completed.
--_J. W. Von Goethe._
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath
received it disclose it.
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