You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. From a little spark may burst a flame. Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. The secret of getting things done is to act. Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always. Small projects need much more help than great ones. |