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Excerpt from Valedictory Address Delivered Before the Graduating Class of the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery: Session 1861-62
The question, which every young man should propose to himself, when about to enter upon life, is - what can I do? In this world of activity and energy, this world of many wants and many woes, the thought of yielding in any degree to sluggishness, or a desire for repose, dare not be entertained by him; but if he has not a settled determination to do all that he can, coupled with willingness to act it out, he will ever appear a drone in society. Its stirring activity should ever put him upon the alert, lest he may not be able to keep step with its progress; while his own wants, and the wants of the world around him, if he will be an attentive listener, will ever urge him to earnest, untiring exertion, and furnish. Him with constant incentives to the fulfillment of the noblest of all purposes, devotion to the cause of humanity and the elevation of man. In this lies the secret of all true greatness, and he who rightly considers his relations to the present and the future, his obligations to himself and to those with whom he is associated, will never need to be reminded that his great work in this world, to which all others should be subsidiary, is to be useful in any and every way to man.
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