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As his popularity increased the waning of his self-respect told him that he must go into retreat, anywhere out of the musical world else would his art suffer. It did suffer. The nervous diffidence, called stage-fright, which had never assailed his supreme self-balance, intruded its unwelcome presence.
Of course, after consecrating and doubting you have lost confidence in yourself; but this, too, should end quickly, and it will if you pursue a right course. To recover your self-reliance, self-balance, dismiss all the discouraging and doubtful thoughts about yourself. Take a real inventory of yourself. What are you, anyway? Are you honest? Does your word mean anything?
MY DEAR FATHER, I found your letter here, whence I depart to-morrow. Excuse haste. I go abroad, and shall write to you from Calais. I admire Leopold Travers very much. After all, how much of self-balance there is in a true English gentleman! Toss him up and down where you will, and he always alights on his feet, a gentleman.
I will not believe but that if I remain firm and faithful to my heart's integrity there will be some way of escape made between these two alternatives." But could Sans Souci do this? Had the frolicsome fairy sufficient integral strength and self-balance to resist the powerful influences gathering around her?
MY DEAR FATHER, I found your letter here, whence I depart to-morrow. Excuse haste. I go abroad, and shall write to you from Calais. I admire Leopold Travers very much. After all, how much of self-balance there is in a true English gentleman! Toss him up and down where you will, and he always alights on his feet, a gentleman.
The farmer who cultivates his mind as well as his land, uses his pencil as often as his plough, and mixes brains with brawn, will not fall under his own harrow or any other man's. He will never be the drudge of soil or of season, for to a large extent he can control the soil and discount the season. No other following gives such opportunity for independence and self-balance."
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