The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-12-27
NEW YEAR NOTICES.
POINTS ABOUT SUCCESS FROM THE
UTTERANcsS OF GREAT MEN.
Here WIN BE Found Much That Will Tend
to Help Every Aspiring Young Man In
Successfully Fighting the Battle of Life.

Successfully Fighting the Battle of Life.
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INV NA ylll UNDOUBTEDLY a
ESl1STfNp IW%H|g great many who
S&sNVIE lIlWEl read this have de-
RWT HI Il termined whether
~aT " by formal resolu-
tion or not to try to make 1896 the
most successful year of their lives. To
these few Of the notices and sayings
Of successful men, together with here
and there an anecdote, showing how
they put their notions into practice, may
possibly be helpful If read Alright,
much that follows will show that one
essential feature of success is hard work.
Genius may be necessaryfor the highest
success, but given ordinary intelligence
no one need fail who is willing to exert
himself continuously. But there must
be mental toll as well as physical. The
day laborer who is satisfied to exert his
muscles only will never rise above day
wages. The clerk who is satisfied to do
his work perfunctorily without exerting
his mental powers in striving to become
something better than clerk will re-
main in that station. The handicrafts-
man who does not work with his brain
will always be a handicraftsman. But
in striving for success it must not be
forgotten that there are other and better
successes than those of financial ma
ture. 1t is better to achieve character
than wealth, but character may not be
won without intellectual activity any
more than money.
Do Not Neglect Your Opportunities.
Quite as important to success in life
as continued activity is the seizing of
your opportunities when they come to
you. Many eminent men have expressed
this idea in many ways Here are few
such expressions which have been gath
cred by Orison SWEET Marden and print
ed in the first chapter Of his book,
Pushing to the 'FRONT.'"
Things don't turn up in this world
until somebody turns them up. Car
field.
We live in q new and exceptional age.
America is another name for opportu-
nifty. Our whole history appears like
last effort Of divine Providence in behalf
of the human race.-Emerson.
Vigilance in watching opportunity
tact and daring in Selling upon opportu-
nifty; force and persistence in crowding
opportunity to its utmost of possible
achievement; these are the martial vir-
tues which must command success.
Austin Phelps.
81 will find way or make one.
There never was day that did not
bring its own opportunity for doing
good that never could have been done
before and never can be again. II.
Burleigh.
Are you in earnest2 Seize this very minute.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
You Must BE Resolute.
"The truest wisdom is resolute de-
termination, said Napoleon once, and
his career was an exemplification Of his
words.
Mr.. Marden gives the following en-
tries ON the fly leaf Of the Greek lexicon
owned by Edward Irving as another ex-
emplifcation of the same idea:
''Six o'clock o. MI, Edward Irving,
promise, by the grace of God, to have
mastered all the words in alpha and
beta before s o. m.
eight O'Clock a. MI, Edward r.
wing, by the grace of God, have done it. !"
Russell Sage, who has certainly won
success of financial sort, once told the
writer that he had saved himself from
failure almost solely by the strength of
his will. / asked him what he did when
he met with an apparently insurmount-
able obstacle.
81 never met with such thing" said
the financier and railroad man. when
ever anything has been in my way, I
have just removed it. The young man
who has will enough can always remove
the obstacles that confront him."
IT'S not what a man does which
exalts him." said Browning, "but what
he would do"
You Must BE Persistent.
The great violinist, Geradini, being
asked how long it took him to learn to
play, replied, "Twelve hours day for
90 years. Z"
This is virtually the keynote to the
success of many eminent men in all
lines. Edison, the electrical inventor,
expressed this idea with regard to him
self when he said:
Anything I have begun is always on
my mind, and I am never easy until it
is finished"
Darwin, the great scientist, whose
theory of evolution has wrought great
er change in the views of thinking men
than any other theory that has been
preached in modern times, owed much
to persistence. He was almost always
ILL., "For 40 years., said his son, "he
never knew one day of health" Yet