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They prefer to wallow in the comfortable and warm bog of materialistic inertia rather than to take to the rough and stony road of creative spiritual achievement which winds painfully uphill. They have failed partly because they fear to attempt.

In idle wishes fools supinely stay,
Be there a WILL, and wisdom finds a way.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Truth > # 149