CHAPTER V.
WHAT SHALL I DO?
No man ever made an ill-figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
-- SWIFT.
Blessed is he who has found his work,--let him ask no other blessing.
-- CARLYLE.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent.

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
-- SYDNEY SMITH.
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
-- BEECHER.
I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go round; But only to discover and to do, With cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.
-- JEAN INGELOW.
"Do that which is assigned you," says Emerson, "and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses or Dante, but different from all these." "I felt that I was in the world to do something, and thought I must," said Whittier, thus giving the secret of his great power.

It is the man who must enter law, literature, medicine, the ministry, or any other of the overstocked professions, who will succeed.

His certain call--that is, his love for it, and his fidelity to it--are the imperious factors of his career.