It is not always a defect to mind one thing at a time. And an aptness so to do, to employ the whole vigor of the mind on the thing in hand, may answer excellent purposes. Only you here need to be exceeding wary, lest the thing you pursue be wrong.
First, be well assured not only that it is good but that it is the best thing for you at that time; and then, whatsoever your hand findeth to do, do it with your might.
Letter to Philothea Briggs, 1772, The Rev. John Wesley, A.M.
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