The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-02-16

Advice to Young Men.

The first selection, or part which | intend
to commence with, IS taal which is APP to
tprm Tie traits Of Your character III aI,cr life,
sad that is reading and thinking. Ii you
read even an ordinary newspaper, ii II Is
worth having at all, II viii contain some
thing worth lculembeEmy--a tactl III history,
--an OCCURRENCE .. tax Present day.
EcIenolnc QISGuVCGTr-a STRAY maxim, IA ~.
ularhaUlc p"lrAomeuol, or d lecorI OF pass.
my events, 0c.gc. th@ valuable. and treas
UrG them up Ivr LutAr, Use; Yea 20 not know
VI what value tley may ~ u YOU some
time. Read anything, aA4 everything winch
VIII compensate rh,a mlnd for LIS trouble
Shun the mere,rlciyus to!lcs Of romance.
You will find i'll he adventures AMI III; coy
cries 0! Nayi-atUrs lnl trsye.e.s, more Of TO-
nance and Lllh than ever eluUeIlSheI the
absurd roH1inc,5 Ol M4ryatt, oue, Cooper,
Dumas, OF ANY others Ol modern date. AIM
High. Ii a man Ii determined 70 reach the
Wy u the Lauder, he VIII uVuDtle, IS iMd kim
kUf much nearer 10 i, Unan II he wee tU sly
Il cannUt 90 tha;,' AMI lcss AT ur near It's
bottom. DO uot be ashamed To let Others
Know YOU axe looking forward to grca!
things. 10 not stand sui and say You nave
Nc Jacnt, 10 capital, Or no mIcn1s. Firm
ness ii purpose and integrity OF character,
&n4 perseverance Of zeal will often be IL,
VARIED. Mike the first step! Ii you are
ever to be anything YOU mus make IL be
ginning, and you must make II yourself
LARK out the line You prefer; and take emf
ncrcc The level with which YOU lay YOU
leiI; and thu, prepared With prudence o.
one arm and PERSEVERANCE on the other, yOc
need not fear any obstacles. Always cult
vate lhrYeneas Vi soul. Sclishness is 10,
common III our world. BE generous to al
around YOU, The example wal have II retle!
power, and III some IuIure time 1t may tel
POWERFULLY upon your HE: Let your goo;
deeds tell Oh d coming generation. Look a
l. Martin Luther, the agent in sending
thundcrboit into the Naucan, which would
SILVER the foundation Of the Papal Throne
and renQ the night OF ~despotism and gloom
1t is purpose which gives force to ever,
character. "Where there is a will there i
Il way" saws he old proycrb, and its trut.
is attested by all historians. 10 will strong
ly--to determine on doing a thing Is haI
way to deing it; it is the best part OF til
battle. Wul is character--iL IS the ma
himself. 1t is astonishing what an indlvid
ual, borne onward by d determined an
r~esolu!e will, CAN accomplish. Look at
Napoleon Bonaparte, tht word impossible h
would not use; he thought it only ought
be placed IN the dictionary ot FOOLS
Il =; ,,ot i,tnIl.,t ,bnt ,,,nb.u. :, ,,u, ...an
q so much as earnest purpose, OF such nature
were a Luther, d knox, L Cromwell, Napc
icon and John Wesley. Look at NapoIeo
how he pressed all men alike, soldiers an
philosophers, into hisseryice. He bore dow
before him the armies Vi all Europe. III
world lay at his feet. Once it was said
him tEst the Alps stood in the way Of h
troops; "there shall be no Alps eaid h.
and Forthwith the military road was mao
and Sccess TO Italy Easy ia al! coming tin
I might here add innumcrable instances
such minds, but these will suffice for I'll
present.
/ might tell you Of a Hastings, when
boy, vowed that a certain portion Of Ian
should be his; how he struggled thro' lii
ana IN MS grey halTs had Ills 70" Iuill4e'
How q Stevenson was laughed at when
advocated the form of Rail Roads, called
lunatic by his best friends, still no perseye
ed and finally succeeded, Take a Wasl
ington. struggling through a war of scvC
years and see the ipdomitsble charact'
there displayed. There a Raikes, the iour
der Of Sunday Schools, a Franklin, snd n,
merous others, follow them through THE
sourse of life you will See displaye1 an e
ergy Of purpose, which ought 20 encoura!
" all 70 action. Courage, ACTIVITY al
earnest perseverance are indeed the secret
all success.
One good endeavcr, seriously persisted
will not fail; it must and will succeed at IA
The more one does, the more he is capat
Of doing, the dilisent man cuts out time al
opportunity, for whatever work he sets !
mind on doingS it is the idle man who 'cal
find time The day, "said an Old philos
pher," is UNNECESSARILY long to him W
know how to valQs AMI Us. IT,
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