THINK BEFOREHAND

Think beforehand .
To-day for to-morrow, and even for many days hence. The greatest foresight consists in determining
beforehand the time of trouble. For the provident there are no mischances and for the careful no narrow
escapes. We must not put off thought till we are up to the chin in mire. Mature reflection can get over
the most formidable difficulty. The pillow is a silent Sibyl, and it is better to sleep on things beforehand
than lie awake about them afterwards. Many act first and then think afterwards–that is, they think less
of consequences than of excuses: others think neither before nor after. The whole of life should be one
course of thought how not to miss the right path. Rumination and foresight enable one to determine the
line of life.

Longreads’ Best of WordPress, Vol. 4

10 Favourite stories from across WordPress.

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1. The Moral Dilemmas Of Narrative (Bill Marvel, Gangrey)

Bill Marvel on journalism and the quest for empathy in telling other people’s stories:

Compassion and sensitivity thus tell us how to approach our subjects from the outside.

Empathy, the word Lee Hancock murmured that morning, is more difficult. Because empathy requires that we approach our subjects from the inside. We try to enter into the emotions, thoughts, the very lives of those we…

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