Samuel Johnson: To faint or loiter, when only the last efforts are required, is to steer the…
To faint or loiter, when only the last efforts are required, is to steer the ship through tempests, and abandon it to the winds in sight of land; it is to break the ground and scatter the seed, and at last to neglect the harvest.
In today’s wordsTo give up or slack off when only the final efforts are needed is like steering a ship through the storms and then abandoning it within sight of land, or like breaking the ground and sowing the seed and then neglecting the harvest.
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