Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.