[Cryptostudio-bugs] With His Mother. Visited by Professors McGarvey and Graham.
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From: Mussa <squ...@th...> - 2010-01-11 09:57:05
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The companionship of the cultivated. Is it argued that the poor have not time for self-culture? This is one of the greatest mistakes of life. It is not _time_ that we want; it is _inclination_. Generally, those who have most time profit by it least. An earnest purpose will either find time or make time. Nor is it necessary that much time should be taken. The spare moments, the mere fragments of time, often worse than wasted, will, if carefully improved, make both mind and heart a store-house of the most precious treasure. It is said that Spurgeon read the whole of Macaulay's History of England between the courses at dinner. I would not advise that these golden opportunities for social culture be devoted to reading; but the circumstance shows how much may be accomplished by gathering up the crumbs which fall from the table of time. When Martin Luther was asked how, amid all his other labors, he found time to translate th |