The very means which best helped you yesterday, may very likely be those which most impede you to-morrow--you may want to do a different thing to-morrow, and all your accumulation of means for yesterday's work is but an obstacle to the new work.
Bagehot warns that methods that were effective in the past may hinder future endeavors, emphasizing adaptability.
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