Honestly achieved results surpass all others.

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

I looked into his sandy brown eyes, at one with the hair. At the business- like outward presentation of the man who daily printed sneers, innuendo, distrust and spite and spoke without showing a trace of them. 'Off the record,' I said,'bash his face in'.

He gave me a last dark look, not admitting defeat,not giving an inch .I watched him with unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes and they were simply open but seeing nothing.

I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so long that straightening them out was like six bouts with an octopus.

Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long ever-recurring battle.

ones. I could see that I would be inevitably eased out, and not by doubt but by concern.

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

Dick Francis

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Written By Dick Francis

Written By Dick Francis

Written By Dick Francis

Written By Dick Francis

Written By Dick Francis

Written By Dick Francis

Written By Dick Francis

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