om generation to generation! Men wrong for using thetalents that their Master has intrusted to them--for toiling whileothers play!
Of course they are seeking their reward. Man is not given thatgodlike unselfishness that thinks only of others' Dortmund Børn Fodboldtrøjer good. But inworking for themselves they are working for us all. We are so boundtogether that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow hestrikes in Moncler Takit Miehet his own behalf helps to mold the universe. The stream instruggling onward turns the mill-wheel; the coral insect, fashioningits tiny cell, joins continents to one another; and the ambitious man,building a pedestal for himself, leaves a monument to posterity.
Alexander and Caesar fought for their own ends, but in doing so theyput Meksiko Pelipaidat a belt of civilization half round the earth. Stephenson, to win afortune, invented the steam-engine; and Shakespeare wrote his plays inorder to keep a comfortable home for Mrs. Shakespeare and the littleShakespeares.
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. Theyform a neat, useful background for great portraits to be paintedagainst, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent,audience for the Tanska active spirits of the age to play before. I have nota word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.
But do not, for goodness' sake, let them go strutting about, as theyare so fond of doing, crying out that they are the true models for thewhole species. Why, they are the deadheads, the drones in the greathive, the street crowds that lounge about, gaping at those who Jalkapalloseurat 2017/18 areworking.
And Chelsea Dame Fodboldtrøjer let them not imagine, either--as they are also fond of doing--thatthey are very wise and philosophical and that it is a very artfulthing to be contented. It may be true that "a contented mind is happyanywhere," but so is a Jerusalem pony, and the consequence is thatboth are put anywhere and are treated anyhow. "Oh, you need notbother about Birmingham City him," is what is said; "he is very contented as he is,and it would be a pity to disturb him." And so your contented partyis passed over and the discontented man gets his place.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumblewith the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal.
Because if you don't you won't get any. In this world it is necessaryto adopt the principle pursued by the plaintiff in an action fordamages, and to demand ten times more than you are ready to accept.
If you can Liverpool Dame feel satisfied with a hundred, begin by insisting Cote d'lvoire Pelipaidat on athousand; if you start by suggesting a hundred you will only get ten.
It was by not following this simple plan that poor Jean JacquesRousseau came to such grief. He fixed the summit of his earthly blissat living in an orchard with an amiable woman and a cow, and Frankrike Børn Fodboldtrøjer he neverattained Dzieci Moncler Kurtki even that. He did get as far as the orchard, but the womanwas not amiable, and she brought her mother with her, Naiset Northface 3 In 1 Takki and there was nocow. Now, if he had made up his mind for a large country estate, ahouseful of angels, and a cattle-show, he might have lived to possesshis kitchen garlinks:
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