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Yahoo! An unemployed friend just got a job offer after months of looking! Congratulations, Susan!
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thanks for posting some good news.
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Just happened upon your site. I appreciate the thoughtfulness and the introspection (despite your self-flagulation for your self-perceived self-indulgence). I was reminded of a quote from an old law school friend (I think he was a judge or something?)":
"No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen – to dig by the divining rod for springs which he may never reach. In saying this, I point to that which will make your study heroic. For I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone – when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds a dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will – then only will you have achieved. Then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought – the subtle rapture of post-poned power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1886
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I should either be quiet or say "thank you", so I will thank you from the bottom of my heart.
UL
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I had the same sober and contemplative reaction to this quote when I first came across it. For the record, however, I posted it not to "put you in your place," but rather as an encouragement (which I imagine you already know)...
Keep writing.
signed:
~ A different sort of unemployed attorney
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