Put forth wings -- run -- walk...
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"Put forth wings -- run -- walk. Is the order correct? Hope swerves from the edge of so descending a promise, which seems only to repeat the falling course of nature -- that droop, we all know, from short ambitions, through temporary impulsiveness, to the old commonplace and routine. Soaring, running walking -- and is not the next stage, a cynic might ask, standing still? On the contrary, it is a natural and true climax, rising from the easier to the more difficult, from the ideal to the real, from dream to duty, from what can only be the rare occasions of life to what must be life's usual and abiding experience." -- George Adam Smith A young man made a pilgrimage on foot across the country in the service of a cause. When he reached the west coast he was asked what was his greatest problem during the long walk. Was it the mountains? Was it storms? Was it the heat of the sun? "None of these," he replied. "It was the sand that kept getting in my shoes." -- Kolsti
