The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-06-14
LAWS FOR A SUCCESSFUL LIFE.

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lust word to you, young friend
We all envy successful people. but-till
it is too late we do learn that there are
laws which control successful life
laws which we all have to obey if we
would prevent disastrous failure.
Let us consider a few OF those com
mands to which God and nature have
attached the promise of crown.
First Of all, be resolute. Where
there is will, there is way. Deter
mination makes men giants for good or
monsters for evil. Make up your mind
what to do, and be sure it is worth do
ing; and then do it. Do not be dis
mayed at obstacles, They are stumbl-
ing stones to the weak and the va
cllating, but stepping stones to the
courageous and resolute.
Be per,evering. Choosing a law
ful, laudable object in life, stick to it.
Be industrious. You can never
drift into success, but you can climb to
lofty height.
Be thorough. What is worth doing
is worth doing well. The peril of all is
learning TO do too easily what we at
tempt. We get careless-Superficial.
We make show OF progress without
and real acquisition-it is thin gold
plating over common metal: we are
tempted to say, over deal OF brass.
Be- systematic. THIS is the only way
to be thorough. Life must be laid out
on a definite plain. Method is like a
mechanical appliance it makes up for
lack of power by teaching US to use
what power we have. Detects of
Imagination. of memory and ever of
reasonable power, may be supplied by
systematic habits. A certain French
minister of great business abilities has
been contrasted with shiftless Eng
lish stateman thus: One never puts
off till the morrow what he could do
to day; the one never did today what
he could put off till tomorrow.
Be economical. Economy means
wise administration, avoiding waste and
using well what we have. Economy of
money is at the bottom of personal
peace and household plenty. Very few
there are who, If they choose, could
not be rich by and by. The FIVE cents
a day spent for cigars would, in course
of lifetime, if 1t were saved, come, by
compound interest, to snug little for
tune and bless old age with competency.
l heard sagacious employer say OF a
gifted salesman: l would make that
man partner, but he spends all his
earnings on dress. Economy may be
applied to anything which is ours in
trust for good uses. We should be
saving of time-one of the most v4lu-
able of all Gods gifts. As money is
wasted in pennies, so time is wasted in
minutes.
Be self sacrificing. Do not hesitate
to pay the price of success even if it
costs much self denial, There is no
prize without It's price. Palissy, the
potter, was so enthusiastic in lis study
to perfect his porcelain ware that he
forget food and drink and sleep. He
spent all his money and then burned
his garden pailing, household tables
and furniture to keep up the furnance
fires which were to melt the enamel.
He was so absorbed in his work that,
like Poussa, the Chimes potter, he
| would have thrown himself in the fur
mace rather than fail in his life work.
In all life's noblest achievements it is
still true that we save kte only by losing
it. The highest virtue is self-sacrifice,
and the grandest results are reached
only at the cost of selfdenial but when
the crown shines on the brow, the way
to the cross will be forgotten. A true
success will compensate for all the
trials through which it has been at
tanned