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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1878

Work and Win.

WHATEVER you try to do in life, try with all your heart to do it well; whatever you devote yourself to, devote yourself to it completely. In great aims and small be thoroughly in earnest. Never think it possible that any natural or improved ability can claim immunity from the companionship of the steady, plain, hard working qualities, and hope to gain its end. There is no such thing as such fulfillment on the earth. Some happy talent and some fortunate opportunity may form the two happy sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of material to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, sincere earnestness. Never put the hand to anything on which you cannot throw your whole self; never affect depreciation of your work, whatever it is.