But to men groping in new circumstances, it would be finer if the words of experience could direct us how to act in what concerns us most intimately and immediately; which is full of difficulties to be encountered; and upon the mode in which they are met and conquered--not merely pushed aside for the time--depends our future. 
It would be finer if the words of experience could direct us how to act in the difficulties that must be encountered. The way in which they are met and conquered - not merely pushed aside for the time - decides our future. 