The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-03


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one .. tha atranst paradozes -
hnrnRn nature 8 tint men and women
siruEgiiNe. apparentIy with al their
might. 20 succeed are yet constant ~
doing things. saying things and thInls-
ing things which drive the very success
they are after away from them. They
are all the time counteractinE their
enorts by some foolishuess or weak
ness or Indiscretion. They are saying
things which preiudice people against.
them and doing things which destroy
conddence. Although they apparently
Try very hard TO build a foundation,
they are MI the time undermining
themselves.
AIen work like Trojans to get a COW
eted position and then. by getting
puned up with eonceit or by some fool
IEh or weak act. knock the scaffolding,
which they have been years IN build
ing, out from under them, and dorm
they 20. Their lives are series OF
successive climbs and tumbies, so thai
they never get anywhere. never accom-
plish anything worth while. Always
tripping themselves up. neutraiizing
their gork-tliis Is their greatest Stun
bling block. m
3 4 know a powerful editorial Wfitsr
who Yields a strong. vigorous pen, but
who at sixty years Of age e Just where
he was at twenty. he has had scores
OF good positions. but he could not
keep them because OF his indfscretiouH.
because Of a hot temper and sensitive
nature which was always being
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harder worker than he Is. Every time
he gets knocked down he begins at thu
bottom and starts planning and re-
climbing. only to fall back again Ike
the tabled frog trying to get out OF the
well.
Now, II this man had taken an inven-
tory OF himself In his youth and
strengthened two or three little weak
points, he would have been a giant In
the field OF letters
There are thousands OF men who are
working as clerks or in very ordinary
saIaried positions who might have BEEN
employers or proprietors themselves
but for some unfortunate weakness,
some little deficiency In their natures
or some culiarity-souething which
might have been remedfed by a little
discipline and SELF study in youth 1t is
not an UNUSUAL 70 seq u man IL
some subordinate situation who but
for one OF these little lacks would have
been n boider man than his employer.
And SO he has to submit to the humill-
alton of pIodding through life in a me-
diocre position when he feels conscious |
that he has superior ability to those |
who are over him. |sz--U<s- - .--r,sss,,
It IS tragic to see thousands OF peo- i
pie constantly pushing away from
through lie the very sue
cess they are trying to achieve. push |
Ing 1t away because they do not con-
troI hot temper. because OF some lit
lie indiscretion or other weakness or
ack in their nature.
Others are always driving success
away from them by their doubts. their
fears. their lack of courage, their lack
of confidence; driving it away by
thought habits which repel success con-
Ittions. They never make themselves
magnets to attract success. but keep
20 many enemfes OF achievement in
heir mind that there Is no home for
harmony there, no place for a strong
purpose They hold the failure thought,
he doubt thought, the poverty thought.
instead of cllnging to the success
bought, the thought OF abundance, I'M
Il they attract achievement and plenty.
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