Re: Life's little lessons

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

mikey wrote:
> I'd always sorta rationalized not really making much of a success of my
> little company after all these years with this kind of reasoning.
> But, I must say, it does look pretty good in print.
>
> It's going in to a frame on my wall, Jackcsg. Thanks.
>

This is the one I have framed in my office. I copied it from a book
that was written in the late 1800's. They quoted it as author unknown.

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Master of human destinies am I.

Fame, love, and fortune on my
footsteps wait.

Cities and field I walk, I
penetrate deserts and seas
remote, and passing by hovel
and mart and palace, soon or
late.I knock, unbidden, once
at every gate.

If sleeping, wake; if feasting,
rise before I turn away.
It is the hour of fate.And
they who follow me reach
every state.

Mortals desire, and conquer
every foe save death; but
those who doubt or hesitate
condemed to failure, penury
and woe, seek me in vain and
uselessly implore.

I answer not, and return
no more.


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