Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success by Frank C. (Frank Channing) Haddock
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extends congratulations.
How May Contentment Dull My Zeal If one small fact my mind could know Of matter or of spirit,-- Within, without, above, below, And never neighbor near it,-- This tiny thing a Universe would be, Clear as Arabian caves to Sesame. Then should I scan the littlest laws Their mightier kin unfolding, Detect the essence of all Cause And see the Cosmos molding; Then should I run, a new-born god, the race Begun with thought, complete in planet-space. How might one stay the perfect quest In surfeit of succeeding? This were a weak and venal rest-- Vast yonder-wealth unheeding. This were to make of Knowing that high goal Which truth declares is Culturing a Soul. How may contentment dull my zeal, |
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