"Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are."

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Source : "Opportunity", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 570-72,

Sam Walter Foss

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