Evening star., 1909-07-10
OUR GAINS AND THE
PAINS TO UNDERGO
BY d. Madison G. Peters.

~ MERSON says: The gods sell any
n thing to anybody At a fair price
- Ellison was asked: Don't YOU
believe that genius is inspiration" Not
he replied; genius is perspiration."
Alexander Hamilton defined genius as
the fruit of labor and thought" Button
tells us genius is only "protracted pa
tience" Lord Lytton says: 1T is fine
observation strengthened by fixity Of pur-
pose"
Hard labor is the one method of at
tanning excellence. What an untirinG
worker was Lord Brougham. His love
of work became a habit, and such was
his love of excellence that IL was said
of him that If his station In life had
been that of a shoeblack he would never
have rested until he had become the best
shoeblack i'm England.
James Watt when a boy found science
in his toys. John Hunter. the remark
able anatomist. whose improvements In
his chosen line of work laid the founda-
tions for all the progress made since his
day said My mind is like beehive;
but full as ii is of buzz and apparent
confusion, it is yet full of order. regu-
larity and food. collected with incessant
industry from the choicest stores of ma
lure"
Jenner, whose vaccination was de-
nounced by the medical profession as
.bestial'' and proclaimed ''diabolicaf
from the pulpit, convinced IT was prac-
tical. never stopped till the merit of his
discovery was recognized and his cause
at last publicly honored.
Michelangelo frequently rose in the mid
die of the night and worked by the light
of a. candle fixed on the summit Of
pasteboard cap.
Milton, in one of his few passages in
which he gives a peep into his pri-
ra.e life, says: My morning haunts are
where they should be, at home; not sleep
ing or concocting the surteits of an ir-
reguiar feast. but up and stirring
Gain is according to pain-lhey are
twin brothers; they resemble each other
SO closely their most intimate friends
cannot tell them apart. The one plants
the tree; the otner cares tor it until he
fruit IS matured.
Life is not a spirit. but a long.
steady climb" James Wnltcomb Riley
says he tried for twenty years 10 get
into one ma gazine--baCk came his man
uscripts. He kept on. lie got IN.
Better to pick. pick, pick one bush
than be chasing after twenty better
bushes.
There is place for you, young man.
and there is u work tor you 10 DO.
Rouse yourself up and go alter 1t Put
your hands cneerfully and proudly 10
honest labor.
A Spanish maxim runs: He vino
loseth wealth loseth much; lie VINO los
eth friend losc,h more, but he who
loseth his energies loseth all"
Charles Dickens said: The one serr-
iceabie, safe. certain, remuneratire. at
tana BILE quality in every study and pur-
suit is attention"
Be a whole man at every ming. Sid
ney Smith said. Daniel Webster struck
me much like u steam engine in trou-
sers."
Butler, who exhibits in his ''Hudibras"
an amount of wit, comic illustration
curious and out-of-the-way learning that
is absolutely por entous, kept n COM
monplace book in which. according to
DR.. johnson, he had deposited for many
years. not such events and precepts as
are gathered by reading. but such re-
marks simlitudes, allusions or infer
ences as occasion prompted or inclina-
ton produced. such adds Johnson,
lis the labor of those who write for inn
mortality"
Have an aim and work till you ac-
complish 1T. Philip of Macedon lost his
eve from a bowshot. When the soldiers
picked up the shaft they perceived upon
il these words: ITO Philips eye" The
archer had an aim that accomplished
something.
1t is The boys who will work who are
needed. The lowlands are crowded.
but there is room for the industrious ou
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