F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 13

from him. Nevertheless my wild plans, visionary, he still had the hopes
of me. But if I looked for distinction in the political world, it is able
is not to forget well that it had to this become day a dangerous
it sand-blasts mobile on that a series of violent storms continually the heaved.
And these storms, from of the mysterious trial or other, it was
throwing on incessantly in the beach of the political popularity and
heroes that make of men whose virtues were not heavy enough to hold
them to the fund. "Both a humble citizen, my child" says him:  "you learn
to appraise a calm life. You is not given to noise and strong
speaking, to lying or to slandering;  what things, to this day, it is
essential to the political success. Worthy and well it prepared people I am
too afraid to be drowned in the violence of the storm
statesmen with brains few depths and empty pockets create, from them
the anxiety to take the business of the nation in theirs really holding.
Also, memoirs that if you fail in the object of Your ambition (and
You are you don't wander about enough to succeed), the remotests abandon the wish
not the hideaway You from the bad sketches of Your enemies. You can look for
of the brook of crystal;  You can let Your torn wounds flow with his/her waters;
but such it won't illuminate Your disappointment, for the they persecuted
heart is not peace-offered to the political winner. Politically
defeated;  and you are as an unhappy person in love that looks for him/it a rural
divinity and it sings his/her complaints to the winds. Your eye will become
jealous to the fortunes of others but Your sighs on the cruelty
of what you are pleased to call human imperfections won't bring
back Your really. Is quietly to house, my child and if you cannot be a
teacher, opportunity is able in the daytime a turn You on President of these
The United States. Makes Your insanity to write books you don't deceive Him
in crime;  and above all, I would command him/it, my child never to
writes the 'the Life and Character' of an in-going President, for then,