Not a little time spent at correspondence college in learning to adopt disguise
to conceal your defeat is time wasted,and the work that will be done afterwards
is far less valuable than the work done by bright men who have a continual
inflation of their desire for knowledge as a stimulant to their energy.
Resignation is needed to face the truth about yourselves.
This kind,though it may involve pain in the first moments,affords ultimately
a protection ,against the disappointment and disillusionment to which
self-deceivers are liable.Nothing is more fatiguing nor,in the long run,
more disagreeable than the daily effort to believe things which daily becomes
more and more incredible.
To be done with this effort is an indispensable condition of comfort and peace
of mind.The man who has suffered such fundamental defeat that he has given up
all hope of serious achievement in his life may well gain happiness of submission
to the will of God ,the resignation of despair.