The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-05-15
Ruler of
Destiny
Man Makes
Luck Good
or Bad
BY DIR. MADISON C. PETERS.
Noted New Yosk Divine.

The believed they called Destiny
the governing power Py said "Some people refer their
and ability but is all fate Cicero spoke Of luk
connection with the Roman empire and generals as settled thn
Caesar when crossing told the plot "You Caesar
and his good depended upon his k Napoleon
always talking about his STAR Cromwell had similar notions about
destiny"
@chance?" do combine
sometimes favorable opportunities gang
As Shakespeare has There tide in the affairs of which,
taken its food leads fortune But who controlled this de
Chance and like all other opportunities in m but the
who makes the most of the greater benefit and circumstances
stead of being hndran constitute the quarry out of which to get
the paving stones for the road to
The idly stands with akmbo set
until tells him but rather is he who rolls his
sleeves strikes when the is hot and keeps hot BY striking lis
not dear Bruu but ourselves that underng
That fortune tickle jade that cit by hit than good wit
is the bugbear of the idle and langud
Away with the crude notion that fortune blind goddess and with
her blind hand blind her gifts Robert Burns had the
gnce and enlightenment twentieth century when he wrOte
'To catch Dame Fortunes golden smile,
s~z - Assiduous wait upon her."
Success by doing right thing right time the right
Raleigh flung jacket mud puddle and
queens favor In out Of ten the successful he
'Who breaks his births nvidious bar,
And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows Of circumstance,
And grappes with his evil star"
socad "lucy fellows usually keen sighted who
world scrutnng and who to clear ideas OF
ought skill their practical plans
sour remedies in ourselves do lie
Which ascribe o heaven; the fated sky
Gives free scope; and only backward pulls
Our slow designs when ourselves dull"
Buxton said The longer live the certain am
great difference between between the great and the nsnh'
can't energy invncbe determination honest fxed
victory This quality viii do anything in the world
talents circumstances will make twoed creature
without IT."
old Latin proverb Opportunity has hair in 'front.' but is
bald behind Seize him by the foreock"
Is luck that gives the lawyer his clients the physician his patients
preacher his hearers the merchant his business the mechanic his la
bor his harvest? Read the story of Whos Who in America
great born the bakwoods and graduated
University Hard Knocks Men like Edison atond for their
schooling and ambition and by making the most of their
spare moments
Stephen Gd the second richest his day in America who
poor immigrant boy said II began life with and
best capital his industry John Jacob Astor began
life pedd of York John D. Rockefeller worked
porter machine shop and Andrew Carnegie began life
senger boy
luck by letting their energies out through bad habits
projects Nothing will turn for which have
blossoms the tree of pluck Whatever be
tive powers will be attained without the most
well directed life lasting labor for sempromnt The prize
belongs undyg and with through thick and
thin, keeps a-yng