To go out and fight for it
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your sleep for it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things cheap for it
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you will sweat for it,
Fret for it, Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of GOD or man for it
If you will simply go after than thing that you want
With all your capacity
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity
If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged you besiege and beset it,
You will get it!
-Borton Braley
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