Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Orison Swett Marden
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    orderly and systematic. He cultivated the same sort of soil, but with a difference. Every- thing about his place had a snug, neat appear- ance. Buildings were painted and in good repair; yards were clean; wagons, carts, and farm machinery were in good order. Work was always done in season, and in the right way. It was just the difference in the methods of these farmers that made one “lucky” and well- to-do, the other “unlucky” and head over heels in debt, with a mortgage on his farm. They are good types of the people who keep fit and those who do not. A great many people go through life just like the sloppy, slovenly farmer. They never have things up to the mark. There is always something the matter with their life machin- ery; it is out of order, and they go on from year to year sowing faulty seed and reaping scant harvests. Distinctive achievement of any kind is costly. It is not half as easy as sliding along the line of least resistance and having a good time, not bothering one’s head about system; but there is a wide difference in the results.
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