paint

Every day you may make progress.

Every step may be fruitful. Yet

there will stretch out before you

an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending,

ever-improving path. You know you

will never get to the end of the journey.

But this, so far from discouraging,

only adds to the joy and the glory of the climb.

winston churchill

oh, Winston! (the truth is incontrovertible)

Yes, folks, it's the Winston Churchill

coffee mug. (Or, in my case, tea mug.)

What a mug. What a guy. What a way

he had with words. Couldn't be better.

Here's a quote from the t-shirt

that is advertised along with it:

"The truth is incontrovertible,

malice may attack it,

ignorance may deride it,

but in the end;

there it is."

Snag?

"You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination. But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period - I am addressing myself to the School - surely from this period of ten months this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."

Winston Churchill

October 29, 1941

Harrow School

[Absolutely a good read, here. Just in case you ever hit a snag.]