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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling
are necessary in any kind of superior achievement:
The arts cannot exist without them.
The sports page records people's
accomplishments, the front page usually
records nothing, but man's failures.
It is very easy to overestimate the
importance of our own achievements
in comparison with what we owe others.
So much to do, so little
done, such things to be.
An achievement is a bondage. It
obliges one to a higher achievement.
Empty pockets never held anyone back.
Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you
ultimately probe for the lowest common
denominator of human achievement.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with
a heart for any fate; still achieving,
still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
There is no simplistic approach to
worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
High achievement always takes place
in the framework of high expectation.