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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353758" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Father To His Son</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A father sees his son nearing manhood.<br>What shall he tell that son?<br>'Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.'<br>And this might stand him for the storms<br>and serve him for humdrum monotony<br>and guide him among sudden betrayals<br>and tighten him for slack moments.<br>'Life is a soft loam; be gentle; go easy.'<br>And this too might serve him.<br>Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.<br>The growth of a frail flower in a path up<br>has sometimes shattered and split a rock.<br>A tough will counts. So does desire. <br>So does a rich soft wanting.<br>Without rich wanting nothing arrives. <br>Tell him too much money has killed men<br>and left them dead years before burial:<br>the quest of lucre beyond a few easy needs<br>has twisted good enough men<br>sometimes into dry thwarted worms.<br>Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted.<br>Tell him to be a fool every so often<br>and to have no shame over having been a fool<br>yet learning something out of every folly<br>hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies<br>thus arriving at intimate understanding<br>of a world numbering many fools.<br>Tell him to be alone often and get at himself<br>and above all tell himself no lies about himself<br>whatever the white lies and protective fronts<br>he may use against other people.<br>Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong<br>and the final decisions are made in silent rooms.<br>Tell him to be different from other people<br>if it comes natural and easy being different.<br>Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives.<br>Let him seek deep for where he is born natural.<br>Then he may understand Shakespeare<br>and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov,<br>Michael Faraday and free imaginations<br>Bringing changes into a world resenting change.<br>He will be lonely enough<br>to have time for the work<br>he knows as his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Carl+Sandburg">Carl Sandburg</a><div class=q>
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What shall he tell that son?
'Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.'
And this might stand him for the storms
and serve him for humdrum monotony
and guide him among sudden betrayals
and tighten him for slack mome..."></div>
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