There are jumping men who always hit the top bar with their
heels and never quite clear it. There are women whose stitches
always come out, and the buttons they sew on fly off on the
mildest provocation. And there are other women who will use
the same needle and thread, and you may tug away at their work
on your coat or your waistcoat, and you can’t start a button
in a generation! There are poets who never get beyond the
first verse; orators who forget the next sentence, and sit
down; gold-diggers who buy a pickax and stop there. There are
painters whose studios are full of unpainted pictures. And
if sluggards ever took good advice, what long processions we
should constantly meet, slowly traveling on their way to the
ant.--JAMES T. FIELDS.
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=Thought Before Thing=--See UTILITY AS THEISTIC EVIDENCE.
=Thought, Progress of=--See PROGRESS UNFINISHED.
=Thoughts, Beautiful=--See LITERATURE AS AN INSPIRATION.
=Thoughts from the Garden=--See UPWARD LOOK.
=Thrashing, the Effect of a Sound=--See SHAKING-UP.
=Threat Ignored=--See LOYALTY.
=Thrift=--See WORTH, ESTIMATING.
=Tides, Spiritual=--See FLOOD TIDE, SPIRITUAL.
=Ties=--See CHRISTIAN UNITY.