Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1861-02-07
Success.

tor IRON small DcSnulilB nc hau fIseu W lhc
highest place in the depar to which he had
been attached, and had made the fortunes OF his
whole family-brothers, sons and nephews, as
well as his own--once said to me 80 The lon
ger live the more convinced am that over
scnsitiycnee1 is great mistake in apublc man. "
He might have said in all men who try 20 sue
coed in life. Now, ! wish it to be understood
that what II expras, here by the word /" over
sinstiyene.s docs not signify oyer-scrupnlons-
ness BE ~ scrupuous as rou will. DO moth
ing that can give you single pang Of conscience
Keen your hands clean. Ii you cannot do this,
sink INTO tho abysmal depths Of failure, unsoed
and unspotted, with shin clear and white as n
lite child's, and be clean But do not be over
sensitive on the score Of pride, or vanity, or
dominant egot!Sm. Every successful man, you
may te sure, has had much to mortify him in /
the course OF his career He has borne many
rebuff, he has sustained many failures. What
{ men not understand YOU are not inclined to
encourage you, and exersise the privilege Of age
or superior position; bear with it ell, Juyenis,
your tine will come; you may take your change
out Of the world when you are little older
Bah how docs it hurt? . Hard words break
no bones, saith the proyerb. And they break
no spirit that is not the feeblest The world may
laugh at your failures--what then? Qryagain
and perhaps they will not laugh Try once
again, aud perhaps it will be your turn to laugh.
/" He who wins may laugh, saith another pro-
verb, If you have the ight stuff in you, you
will not be put down.
There are various roads to success, but ! am
somewhat inclined to think that the surest is
grayely and gritty, with some awkward pitfalls
and binding quicksets in tue way. Was that
famous nursery rhyme of the Man OF Thessaly,
think you, written but for the entertainment OF
babes aud sucklings? or wasitnot rather meant
as a lesson to children ola larger growth to the,
adeescents of our nurseries Of learning, starting
On the great journey Of life. Every one knows
tke story-how the hero Of it
Jumped into quickest hedge
And scratched out both bis eyes.
Dou5eless the way with most Of US, looking not
before we leap; going ahead too rapidly at the
outsct--- not calculating QUO Juvenile strength,
and jumping into the midst of what We think we
can clear at a bound. DO We not all think our
selves = wonderous wise, and thinking so, en-
counter binding Disaster But are we, there
FORE to 20 darklIng all the lest of our lives? 1t
was not to teach us this that the great epic OF
the Man Of Thessaly was written lie had the
true heroic stuff in him, and he did not sit
down and bewaI his loss, bel less and hopeless.
And when he saw his eyes we're out,
He had reason to complain
But he jumped into the quickest helse,
And scratched them in again
Anu 9nch is the right way to fight the battle of
life, Is grapplc with the failures and disasters
which aeset your career Go at it again You
may haze reason to complain that your good in
tentionG meet with no better results that the
singleness of your aims, the purity Of your as.
piraton, a1d the high courage Of your first grand
plunge into life lead to nothing but torn face
smeared with blood and night Of painful be
vii lering blirdnes. But it is better to strive
maufully than to complain weakly; brace your
self up for another plunge; gather strength
from defeat into the quickest hedge again
galanty and you will recover all that you
have lost. scratch y9nr eyes in again, and never
loae your cleQrneSs e vision for the rest Of your
life.
In estimating sources of Success, account
must, doubtless be taken Of constitution Some
of US have constitutional defects, by which 9TH
ers are not incapacitated or impeded Sustain
ed energy is possessed only by those who have
powerful digestive organs. Men of a bilious,
'angune, irritable nature are capable of great
spasm OF energy, that carry them along so far
at time that they can allow for intervals of
prostration, But there is nothing like steady
flow of health-an equable robustness CT man
hood, it is a blessing which few men possess, and
for which the possessor has reason devoutly to
be thankful. Most of US are sensible Of inter
yals of feebleness and WEAKNESS, when we are
icapable OF any great exertion; when we feel
painfully that we are not doing the which we
had set ourselves to do, that we are falling be-
hind in the race, and suffering day after day to
slip by without our making any impression on
the sand. For some time doubted much as to
the best mode dealing with Nature in such
case-whether it were better to mako the dom
inant will assert ITSELF and to 60 on in spite of
the unwillngness of the natural man in spite
Of weakness, and lassctude and continual en-
treaties from the fral flesh or to let Nature
have her way at once and succumb contentedly
to her demands. On the one hand there is the