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...round it like the breath of the wind; now, for the seventh time, I was approaching it. I could no longer control my machine. Straight towards the post it rushed. I could not leap from it; I could not stop its awful impetus. A doomed man, I was hurled onward to my fate. I closed my eyes, and thought of Appleton Chapel. Crash!! and in an instant I struck in the middle of my back, straight across the mighty, quivering shaft, and such was my momentum that my lank form immediately adapted itself to the force of circumstances, and pliantly...
...best. Now the problem is to eradicate, from what is within, the worst. The results tend in the same direction; the processes are distinct. Any little peculiarities must be carefully guarded against. The more amiable they are, the more dangerous they are. Your motto must be 'upward and onward," even at the cost of every feeling of real kindness, courtesy, and friendship. These are only peculiarities and eccentricities. They must be brushed aside from your path with stern determination. Those who say you have no soul are envious. Do not mind them. Remember that "The lot of the unenvied...
...waters onward speed...
...Stealing onward by degrees...
...Rolleth onward...