The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-06-20
Go Forward.

no Tue man Will ever take Step IN tnat |
direction. Keep your position. Fight for |
i'll Go forward, If only single step in a
year; even so little will be something |
gained. Fix your aim ahead and high.
Never allow any fainting or falling back |
never think such thing possible. From
tomorrow always be able to look back to
where you stood yesterday, not to have it |
look back upon you.
Continually going forward is success, so
long as it is in the right direction. 1t is
the using of time, and not permitting it to |
use you, that marks the true business man.
Drive business, but be not driven Be the
master, and not the slave Examine well |
opportunities, then seize upon them and go |
ahead.
Keep moving. It il not the hare that
loiters, but the tortoise that keeps progress
ing, who wins the race. Playing, toying
along the route will never answer. There
must be constant endeavor, q continual ad-
vance; if but foot today, tomorrow will
add another to the score, and q mile
many oI,them-soon will be covered. Keep
moving. The sloth never reaches the end
of the journey.
60 forward. There is inspiration in
doing 50. The more you conquer, the
more easy it will be for you to do so. The
prize may seem distant, but energy, perse-
verance and brave heart will gain it. A
single step backward makes two to bere-
covered; increases labor and paralyzes en-
deayor. Every one has (or should have)
suf1ciency to do without performing labor
twice. to say nothing OF the cost ofso doing,
and the useless wearing and strain upon
life. Remember that false and ill-directed
effort is almost as bad as the want of it.
Go forward. There is everything, both
in this world and the next, to tempt you
to do so. Reputation, independence and
wealth lure you onward-never the reverse.
1t is grand thing to stand head high
among your fellows; to compel fate to do
your bidding and not be shackled by its
stern DEGREES, to wrestle with threatening
failure, and come offconqueror in the strug-
gle. 1t is grand, a glorious recompense
to stand upon the topmost height and look
down into the valley from which you have
risen; to have men to look up to you; and
mot to the past, but to the future, looks
true nobility, and finds its blazon in pros
perity."
Go forward. Find something noble and
exalted to do, and be blessed in the doing.
Let each act be an improvement upon every
one that has gone before. Let to-day be q
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turning back when your hands have been
placed upon the plow. If Alpine heights
are before you, climb them with unflinch-
ing feet and unwearied arm. Remember
that though mountains may rear their in
hospitable crests, Rome is beyond for you
even as for him of old. No matter how
mighty the tree, sharp ak and repeated
blows will bring its towering strength 10
the ground. The block from which you
would carve the statue, around which a
world may bow with the homage that gen.
ius ever commands, may lie deep in the
quarry, but strong muscles win dig it out,
and the triumph be more grand for the
sweating toll. Nothing produces nothing
enterprises of great pith and moment
are not the work of an instant. The pig
ments and brushes and canvas are given
but the picture comes not without thought
and effort and inspiration, never by stand
ing still.
Go forward for the right, the true and
the holy. There is always something
ahead. The battles of the past have beer
fought, and those of the future alone have
any claims upon sword and spear. 1t il
in the days to come that the banner, gem
med with the stars of hope, and glitterinl
with the halo promise to mankind, to you
|, is given to the wind. Look not back upoI
dust and ashes and mouldering bones, bu
forward, ever forward, to something o.
. life and blood and health and nobly beat
ing heart.
Go forward. The days that remain fo
accomplishment are few, and much is ye
to be done. There is no time for waiting
Keep upon the alert to gain another vic
tory that win rebound to your credit; tina
, will render brighter and purer your man
hood; that will enable you to lay up some
thing against the hour of want. Keel
alive to the actions and the requirements
to the possibilities as well as the necessi
ties, of the age. By grasping firmly, max,
. the intangible living reality; give to tn
deeting palpable presence, and compe
; the obstinate to become the faithful.
serving.
Go forward. There is everything to wo
and nothing TO discourage. At ever,
. glance the needs of earth are given to you
view. Temptation is upon every hand
and brothers are falling thickly by tn
wayside; woman is stretching out to yo'
her helpless arms for pity and succor; tn
wrong is trampling down the right il
many places, and truth is driven to tn
, mains to be done, and the ranks requir
L filling up. Advance the standards OF MOI
{ ality, and justice, and temperance, and fol
ward the struggled
Go forwsrd Let nothing tempt you +
turn your face backward and sigh for tn
days gone before, for rest and ease; th
1 end is before, not behind; the golden II
q ward in the future, not the past. Ths
which is gone can never be recovered, bu
b that which is yet to come can be grapple
q with hooks of steel, and made subservier
a to the highest and best uses and glory G
!, mankind. To even think of turning bacl
!, of standing still, is puerile, is unworthy c
! the incentives to pressing on, of the Cox
= given powers.
Be not fossils or sticks; be not benin
the age. Be mani Nay, more. TAX
high place among men. Be in the yer
front rank. There is where you righl
d belong. Yield place to none without th
d strongest Of contests; not until every ston
a has been turned to secure success; M
while strength Of arm and fertility of brai
$ remain. Go forward, ever forward, in a
5. things pertaining to humanity. Nevt
l. conceive of the possibility of having don
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can be accomplished. Experience an
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