This divides and mitigates the impatient jealousy against others.

He works for a cause, and knows early that he cannot monopolize its whole glory; he shares what he is aware it is impossible to engross.

Besides, action leaves him no time for brooding over disappointment.

The author has consumed his youth in a work,--it fails in glory.

Can he write another work?
Bid him call back another youth! But in action, the labour of the mind is from day to day.
A week replaces what a week has lost, and all the aspirant's fame is of the present.