Concentration II: Day 39 readings from "Character And Conduct" - February 8

Readings for February 8 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.

"Concentration"

Original text:

https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n57/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_39

Authors featured today:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
Charles Benjamin Newcomb https://www.thenewcombs.org/2010/12/charles-benjamin-newcomb-1845-1922.html
Frederick William Robertson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Robertson
Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson

Image:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at age 79, Oil painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goethe_(Stieler_1828).jpg