To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to work our mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure.
This quote is the core of the overall Journal paragraph. It is that we must "aspire to do better" - while we show our friends our silver material possessions or base thoughts, which they flatter us about, we can show them the gold of our inner selves "known only to ourselves".
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This quote is the core of the overall Journal paragraph. It is that we must "aspire to do better" - while we show our friends our silver material possessions or base thoughts, which they flatter us about, we can show them the gold of our inner selves "known only to ourselves".
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