It is a great thing to understand yourself as you are, and then to go
ahead and make yourself what you desire to be.
When a carpenter starts to build a house, he knows just what tools and
what materials to work with are his. If there is a broken implement, he
replaces it with another, and if he is short of material he supplies it.
But young men set forth to make futures and fortunes, with no knowledge
of their own equipment.
They do not know their own strongest or weakest traits, and are
unprepared for the temptations and obstacles that await them.
I would advise you to call in the aid of all the occult sciences, to
help you in forming an estimate of your own higher and lower tendencies,
and in deciding for what line of occupation you were best fitted. Then,
after you have compared the statistics so gathered with your own idea of
yourself, you should proceed to make your character what you wish it to
be.
This work will be ten thousand times more profitable to you than a mere
routine of college studies, gained by running in debt.
To know yourself is far better knowledge than to know Virgil.
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