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never be [underline] what I know you desire to be, & have [underline] what you desire to have, without years of systematical & laborious application to some useful & honorable pursuit, whether it be trade, or farming, or politics, or the Fine Arts, or the Learned Professions, or what not. Where, in all the Country, is the distinguished man, whom you would select, [start underline] as a pattern [end underline], a merchant, mechanic, Statesman, or professional man of any description, who has arisen to eminence by an indolent [underline] life, or by a fashionable waste of his time; who has not studied & toiled, day after day, & year after year, in [start underline] one direction [end underline] pressing forward toward the high object of an honorable ambition, with unfaltering [double underline] energy, till he has reached the goal, & the prize he's won? Where is the man? Do you know him? Have you ever seen him? Now, Zadoc, I have no doubt your labor in the Store is pretty hard for you, I expected it would [underline] be, the more, because you have never before been used to any constant [underline] hard service, & I expected you would be disappointed & very homesick, at first, in Boston. I should not have been at all surprised if you had quit in a week. You have stood it bravely, and, now, unless [begin underline] it affects your healthy [end underline] (that must be cared for at all events) and, as I have before said, if J. N. Denison & Co think your services worth enough to pay your board, I advise you to stay this full. You may show this letter to John Addison who will probably know whether the Firm will pay what I think they ought to, as per my note left with