It seems to me that there is rarely such a combination of mental and physical delight in any effort as that which comes to a public speaker when he feels that he has a great audience completely within his control.
Washington asserts that few experiences offer the unique mental and physical delight a public speaker feels when fully engaging and controlling a large audience.
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By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
It was such an unusual feeling to wake up in the morning and realize that I had no engagements; did not have to take a train at a certain hour; did not have an appointment to meet some one, or to make an address, at a certain hour.
Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.