Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-07-20

III IHe l. dCl1C, anu only leave Will uAin 2
jack-kniie, and he will get home as soon
as, if not sooner than, the ship that left
BIN there. " Put him in anywhere, and he
anywhere, and he will get in, if
he wishes to-" This is the 6firi.
that guarantees success in every calling and
profession. Il is true that many persons
have to begin the voyage of lite against
both wind ana tide; and it seems at times
as if they were doomed to "wage with
fortune an eternal war" Bat who eyer
heard of mans failing to succeed at last
in any business which he had stuck to
faithfully for ten yeGJs together? Look
at Bulwer His whole life has been Sc
ries of temporary failures, crowned with
Ultimate triumphs His first novel was a
failure; his first drama was failure; his
frs poems were failures, ard so were his
first speeches. But he fought his way to
eminence; fought it through defeat and
ridicule, till now he has his own enchanted
circle, where "nOne burst walk bat he,
and stands on one of the SUBMITS Of the
three peaked hill, the compeer of Dickens
and Thackerss. Look at DisFael'. Coughed
and hissed down on his first essay in Par
lament, he told the House that the time
would come when they would hear him,
and he persevered until they under whose
laughter he Hrithed were made to writhe
in their turn under his terrible sarcasm.
Look at Brougham. Ranging during
sixty years over the fields, rot only OF law
and politics, but of science and literature,
he triumphed in all and such was his love
of excellence, 50 indefatigable his perse-
verance, that it has been said that, if he
had begun life az sboe-black, he would
never have rested content till he had be-
come the best shoe-black in England.
Iu further illustration of the same point
might site the case of Robert Hall, who
broke down in his first extempore address,
and covered his face with his hands, cry
ing, Oil have lost all my IDEAS" and
who experienced second and yet more
mortifying failure, yet lived to be one of
the greatest pulpit orators of England !
and still further the experience OF Curran,
who tells US that, when he first rose in
debating clun, in Dublin, the features of
the audience swarm before his eyes, and
the candles seem to glare most unmerci-
fully upon him, almost depriving him of
utterance, but who ere long charmed the
most fastidious ear of the House of Com
mons, and made corrupt bench tremble
Again, might point to Talma, the great
est of French actors-Sheridan, the orator
Golden, the champion of the Corn Law
reform-and Aston, the painter-al of
whom failed in their first efforts. Not
long after the latter had taken rank with
the great master of his art, picture by a
young man was brought to him for his
opinion. ITO deal plainly with you"
said Aston, after examining it carefully,
I" it is a wretched affair. There is no
ground for hope-not even for hope. Let
him give up the idea. He never can
make painter" 1T was painted by
yourself" "No-impossiblel'' 1t was.
Look-there is your name; and here, see,
here is the date-only seven years ago,
you perceive" Keats first poem was a
failure; but, though damned by the critics,
he was not disheartened, for he felt that
the genious of poetry must work out
its own salvation, and that by leap
ing headlong into the sea, as
he did in Endymion, he had
become better acquainted with the sound
ipgs, the rocks and the quicksaDds, than if
he had stayed upon the green shore, and
piped silly pipe, and took tes and com
Portable advice. "I was never afraid of
failure" said ne, {" for 1 would sooner fail
than not be among the greatest"
1t is this pluck-this bulldog tenacity
of purpose and stubbornness Of persever-
ance-which win the battles of life,
whether fought in the field, in the mart, or
in the forum. 1t is the halfa neck nearer
that shows the blood, and wins the race
the one march more that wins the cam
paign; the five minutes more unyieldiDg
courage that wins the fight. IL is not
help, but obstacles-not facility, but diff
culty-that makes men. Indeed, the
freig7stage of great mind can be estimated
only by the amount of displacement ii
creates Washington lost more battle S
than he won; but he organized victory out
of defeat, and triumphed in the end. Bee
thoven said of Rossini that he had the
stuff in him to have made good musician
if he had only been well fogged when a
boy; but he was spoiled by the ease with
which he composed. Thousands of men
are bemoaning their poverty or obscurity
who might have won riches or honor had
they only been compelled by early hard
ships to cry, with Burns:
'Come, firm Resolve, take thou the van,
Thou stalk of earle-hemp in mani"
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