The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-01-01
POINTS ABOUT SUCCESS FROM THE
UTTeRANCES OF GREAT MEN.
Hero VIII Be Found Much That VIII Tend
to Help Every Aspiring Young Man In
Successfully Fighting the Battle Of Lie.


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 pat their notions into practice, may
possibly be helpful If s'ead Alright,
much that follows will q IVY that one
essential feature Of success IS hard work.
Genius may be necessary for tho highest
success, but given ordinary intelligence
10 one need fail who is willing to exert
himself continuously. But tEero 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 cxerting
lis mental powers in striving to become
something better than q clerk will re-
main in that station. The Eandicrafts-
man who does not work with his brain
will always be handicraftsman. But
in striving for saccess it must not be
forgotten that there are other and better
successes than those of a financial ma
ture. It is better to achieve character
than wealth, but character may not be
wcn without intellectual activity any
more than money.
Do Not Neglect Your Opportunities.
Quite as important to success in life
as continued activity is the se;zing Of
your opportunities when they come to
you. Iany eminent men have expressed
this idea in many ways. Here are few
such expressions which have been gath
cred by Orison SWEET Marden and priut
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 a new and exceptional age.
America is another name for opportu-
nifty. Our whole history appears like a
last cffcrt Of divine Providence in behalf
Of the human race.-Emerscn.
Vigilance in watching opportunity {;
tact ard daring in seizing upon opportu-
nifty; forco and persistence in crowding
opportunity to its utmost Of possible
achievement; these are the martial vir
tues which must command succcss.-
Austin Phelps.
II will find way or make one. Z"
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 earnest? Seize this very minute.
What you can 90, or dream you can, begin it.
You Must Ee Resoiute.
1.-THE truest wisdom is resolute de-
termination, said Napoleon once, and
his career was an exempli1ication Of his
words.
Nh. Marden gives the following en-
tries cn the fly leaf Of the Greek lexicon
owned by Edward Irving as another ex-
cmplifcation of the same idea:
six o'clock a. MI, Edward Irving,
promise, by !he grace Of God, to have
mastered all the words in alpha and
beta before a. m.
IlSIb " C1OCh l>tNt'iN IL
wing, by the grace of God, have done it. y
Russell Sage, who has certainly won
success of q financial sort, Crce told the
writer that he had saved himself from
failure almost solely By the strength CT
his will. I asked him what he did when
he met with an apparently insurmount-
able obstacle.
Il never met with such thing" said
the 1inancier and railroad man. "When-
ever anything has been i'll my way, I
have just removed it. The young man
who has will enough can always remove
tie obstacles that confront him.
- 'Tis not what man does which
exalts him" said Browning, "Eut 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
20 years.
This is virtually the keynote to the