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Let the man of learning, the man of lettered leisure, beware of that queer and cheap temptation
to pose to himself and to others as a cynic, as the man who has outgrown emotions and beliefs,
the man to whom good and evil are as one. The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine
themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There
is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or
feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in
achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A
cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never
tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all
these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They
mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the
affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in
their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who
sneers alike at both criticism and performance.It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or
where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and
shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the
great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor
defeat
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