The record-union., 1895-04-16
APHoR1sMs FOR YOUNG MEN.
Words of Advice, With Marcus Azure
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Illus as a Text.
1 Wander at random no longer Alas! You
have no time LEFT. Hasten towards
the goal. Do not fatter and deceive yourself
J Come to your own aid while you may, if you
| have Kindness tor yourselt-Meditations of
the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
That is the text, and what follows is
written by young person acting under
4 the doctrinal but not the rbal inspira-
I ton of a person, young but not quite SO
| young; ditfuse, but not quite so dittuse;
dou bier, but not quite SO doubtful:
DO not forget that you have at least two
of the three blessings which Herr Scho-
penhauer called truly great = youth,
/ health and freedom.
Do not fancy that talent counts Tor so
very much in the world. Persistence
without intellect is better than intellect
without persistence.
Do not spend your time in sitting about,
talking of ways and means of getting
lame or money.
Cultivate the habit of thinking and
| keeping your thoughts to yourself. If
! they are of the proper kind for books
write them down and sell them. If they
are for the making of money, coin them
| into action.
Do not be afraid that somebody will
! think poorly of your manners if you up
! set things in your haste.
DO not let women beguile you. Don't
| DSASAiS W AdSulOudDlO CluDS. DOu'L con-
sort with men who have lots of leisure
time. Keep away from men who spend
a great deal of money.
I Don't indulge in day-dreaming.
Keep hard at 1t every waking hour, and
when the time comes for sleep go to bed
ana stay there until 1t is time to get at it
again.
Remember that working out fixed
/ purpose IN life is just as amusing as
drinking champagne and fox-hunting.
! Get fixed purpose and never deviate
from 1t. Fix your eyes on a certain point
and keep pushing for that point.
There is nothing so foolish as work
withouCa fixed purpose
! Don't fancy that youth is the only time
In which there IS any amusement to be
! got out of life. In reality it is the time
! when the most evanescent pleasures only
are to be had, and that at scandalous
/ prices.
When you see a cIeverer or moro suc-
cesstut man than you are, remem Der that
! IN all time and all eternity and all space
/ there never was and never will be an
other human being exactly like you.
! \ ou are UNIQUE.
Never forget that the whole universe
! for you reyolYeS about you as a center,
1t changes its center of gravity as you
/ move about.
! Don't forget that the present is nothing;
! that 1t has ceased to exist as soon as it is
born; that the future is everything.
II you are married, don't fancy that it
is your expensive family that is keeping
you down.
If you are single, always think that if
you had family it would keep you down.
DON'T waste your time in reasoning
! about death and eternity. a good deal of
that sort of thing has been done already,
and not one of the ten thousand better
minds than yours has been able to report
! progress.
Don't have your eyes so firmly fixed
on the goal that you forget to do things
near at hand that will push you toward it.
Do not get the blues. They are a sure
! sign that you are idling.
No busy man has time to think about
his misfortunes.
Remember what Cavour used to say
when the game went against him: "Pa-
tience-and shuttle the cardsr'
/ DO not take yourself too seriously. Re-
member that the universe revolves about
himself Tor every man and not for you
alone.
| Do not talk or think about what YOU
have done. That is a sure sign of decay.
! The man who does it is food for worms
already, although others may not dis
cover it for some years.
Do not be enthusiastic about anything
except what you are doing yourself. This
does not mean that you are to be narrow
or ungenerous. But enthusiasm is an
explosive. 1t should be saved for seri-
GUS purpose.
Don't be afraid because your pockets
are nearly empty. Only handful of the
hundreds OF millions on this earth are
forehanded more than one meal.
DO not fancy that your money and your
social position are aids in doing things
| that are worth while. In youth they are
as dangerous as too much jelly cake.
DO not desplse, either in manner or in
fact, any human being. Learn all you can
from every one, even the meanest. and
remember that your own weak points are
just as weak as anybody's else.
And above all be good humored and
! keep your temper. Anger is weakness,
! the weakness OF fatuous folly. And don't
/ initiate the weaknesses of great men un-
| der the mistaken impression that they are
| the causes of greatness. a great man
| with great whiskers is a great man in
/ spite of great whiskers
And If you don't believe that all these
things are true, why. keep to your own
ideas. a mistaken original idea is less
dangerous than borrowed idea believed
on the say-so of some one else.-New
Gork World.