The significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would
be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of
idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to
serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in
the unused Romand mill, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately,
cannot do the work required of them.
Those who would attain the heights
reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant
use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the
entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every
department of human endeavor.
Industry keeps bright the key that opens the
treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had
devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous
geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone crusher, would never have
published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of
mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little
Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended
sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a
string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.
Labor
vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful,
unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as
eternal vigilance is the price of sand
maker liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring
success.
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