Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-12-28
NEW YEAR NOTICES,

ton or not to try to make 1896 the
most successful year of their lives. To
those few Of the notices and savings
Cf successful men, together with here
and there an anecdote, showing how
they pat their notions into practice, may
possibly bo 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 ore need fail who is willing to exert
himself continuously. But there must
be mental toll as well as physical The
day laboror who is satisfied to exert his
muscles only will never rise above day
wages. The clerk who is satisfied to dc
his work perfunctorily without exertinQ
his mental powers i'll striving to become
something better than clerk will re.
main III that station. The handicrafts-
man who does not work with his brain
will always be a handicraftsman. But
Ill 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 Net Neglect Your Opportunities.
Quito as important to success in life
as continued activity is the seizing OF
your opportunities when they come tc
you. Many eminent men have expressed
this idea i'll many ways Here are few
such expressions which have been gath.
cred by Orison SWEET Marden and print.
ed i'll 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 i'll 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 i'll watching opportunity,
tact and daring in seizing upon opportu,
nifty; force and persistence in crowding
opportunity to its utmost of possible
achievement; these are the martial yir.
tues which must command success
Austin Phelps
"iii iliu a way VI Oilt.
There never was a day that did not
bring its own opportunity for doing
good that never could have been done
before and never can be again. H.
Burleigh.
Are yea in earnest? Seize this very minute
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
You Must Be Resolute.
1.-The trT2st wisdom is resolute de-
termination, said Napoleon once, and
his career was an exemplifcaton of his
words.
Mr.. EIarden gives the following en-
tries on the fly leaf of the Greek lexicon
owned by Edward Irving as another ex-
empliticatiOn of the same idea:
Six O'clCCk Il. MI, Edward Irving,
promise, By the grace of God, to have
mastered all the words in alpha and
beta before 8 a. m
Eight O'Clock a. MI, Edward Ir,
wing, by the grace CT God, have done it. u
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.
Il never met with such a thing" said
the tinancier 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..
" 'T5s not what "a man does which
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he would do.
You EIust BE Persistent.
The great violinist, Geradini, being
asked how long it took him to learn to
play, replied, "Twelve hours ii day for
20 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 l have begun is always on
my mind, and l am never easy until it
is finished. "
Darwin, the great scientist, whose
theory of evolution has wrought great
or change in the views of thinking men
than any other theory that has been
broachod i'll modern times, owed much
to persistence. He was almost always
i'll. ''For 40 years, said his son, che
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 IA man with the strongest consti-
tuition would have shrunk from the enor-
nous toll performed by Darwin, but he
stuck to it with patience that was
marvellous.
Charles II. Cramp, the shipbuilder, i'll
talking of success and how it could be
obtained, declared its greatest secret to
be ''practice practice, practiccP' IF
you want to Win," said he recently,
''you must never let up If You do, you
will surely fall behind. 1 have always
found on returning to my business after
an absence, no matter how brief, that l
had something to learn over again, that
i had to work harder than ever to catch
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