The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-12-27
NEW YEAR NOTICES.
POINTS ABOUT SUCCESS FROM THE
UTTERANCES OF GREAT MEN.
Here VIII Be Found Much That Will Tend
to Help Every Aspiring Young Man In
Successfully Fighting Ne Battle of Life.

ghaN WE tWNE read this have de-
A'VP III termined whether
m W by formal resolu-
ton or not to try to make 1896 the
most successful year of their lives. To
these a 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 necessary for 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 we'll 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-
lucu WIZ uOOS AOU WOlh WIFI UIdlu
will always be handicraftsman. But
| in striving for success it must not be
| forgotten that there are other and bette.
successes than those of a financial ma
ture. 1t is better to achieve character
than wealth, but character may not be
won without intellectual activity any
| more than money.
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.-Gar-
field.
We live in 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.
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.-W. Fl.
Burleigh.
Are you in earnestP 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 exemplifcation 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
emplification of the same idea:
| "Six O'Clock a. nj, Edward Irving,
promise, by the grace of God, to have
mastered all the words in alpha and
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"Eight O'Clock a. nj, 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. I asked him what he did when
he met with an apparently insurmount-
able obstacle.
ST never met with such thing" said
the financier and railroad man. "When-
ever anything has been in my way,
have just removed it. The young man
who has will enough can always remove
the obstacles that confront him..
'Tis not what 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
30 years.
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 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
i'll "For 40 years, said his son, she
never knew one day of health" Yet
during those four decades he used to
force himself unremittingly to pursue
the work which he had set out to do.
Many a man with the strongest consti-
tuition would have shrunk from the enor-
nous toll performed by Darwin, but he
stuck to it with a patience that was
marvellous.
Charles Fl. Cramp, the shipbuilder, in
talking of success and how it could be
obtained, declared its greatest secret to
be practice, practice, practical" IF
you want to win,' said he recently,
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