{"id":79,"date":"2003-06-19T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2003-06-19T15:00:20","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T21:00:20","slug":"begin-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2003\/06\/begin-it-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Begin it now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While (whilst?) I was visiting Syl in Dublin, I admired a quote she had on her mantle, which she was kind enough to type up and send to me:<br \/>\n<PRE><br \/>\nUntil one is committed there is the chance to draw back;<br \/>\nalways ineffectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one<br \/>\nelementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless<br \/>\nideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely<br \/>\ncommits oneself, then providence moves too.<\/p>\n<p>All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise<br \/>\nhave occurred.  A whole stream of events favour all manner<br \/>\nof unforeseen incidents and meetings and material<br \/>\nassistance which no man could have dreamt would come his<br \/>\nway. What ever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.<\/p>\n<p>Boldness has genius, magic and power in it.<\/p>\n<p>Begin it now.<br \/>\n<\/PRE><br \/>\nIt was attributed to Goethe, but it apparently comes from W. A. Murray&#8217;s <I>The Scottish Himalya Expedition<\/I>, who was inspired by a couplet from a &#8216;very free&#8217;<br \/>\ntranslation of Goethe&#8217;s <I>Faust<\/I> by John Anster.  The full story can be found on the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.goethesociety.org\/pages\/quotescom.html\">Goethe<br \/>\nSociety of America<\/A>&#8216;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While (whilst?) I was visiting Syl in Dublin, I admired a quote she had on her mantle, which she was kind enough to type up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-1h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}