The Washington herald., 1909-05-23

things which we use Fl everyday life. I
It had not been for ambition IN man. ~
would have been content TO I've without
progressing and not attempt to improve
on things. The results of such q conat
ton may be easily Imagined
IN conclusion, I would say that aF1oi'
ton is ab7ut as important to the universe
as any olher one thing.
ls House oHes BuHains.
The man who seeks one thing in life, anS
Dut one.
Nay hope 70 achieve il before life b
done:
But he who seeks all things wherever h.
Only reaps from the hopes which around
him ne sows.
4 harvest OF barren regrets.
Owen Meredith.
N. JANE MOOR
sso G strsst northwest
The highest ambition is: Live I'D 4
the best that IS in you: i've noble lives
as you al may. IN whatever condition yOS
may find yourselves. so that your eDitapl
may be that OF Euripides: This monu
ment does not make thee famous 0 Eo
ripides. but thou nsakest this n1onun1en
famous '-I.ongfsllow-
gsshiastoa. D. @
Ambition Is "an eager desire or stead
fast purpose 70 achieve something com
mendabie OF that which IS right in itself
Second definition Of ambition IN Stand
sort OF ambition, for II Is lever that VII
remove great obstacles and make III
seem well We=th living. D. PAY CASE.
The world Is filed up with ambitions.
The silly as well as sublime:
We al have our Own way OF thinking
How best We can put in the time.
The desire OF scne men Is meekneSs.
And others want fame and renown,
While some seem 20 like notht>E better
Than just 20 be classed as clown
Some men are quite proud TO be lawyers
To counsel, orate. and write wills.
While others aspire 20 be doctors.
And to dose out qu.nine and piIls
a few have ambition as authors.
Some artists. some sculptors. as well;
Some other folks want 70 be merchants,
With nothing TO DO but TO sell.
Some people are anxious for clerkships
And serve Uncle Sam Il they can;
So let us each DO or fGii duty.
Above al things else BE a man.
Pos-0zs Dsrartncut
Man feels himself a god fallen from
And ever looks beyond the present tim
and place:
Ambition is the path by which he hope
BACK to the suniit heights belonging t
his race.
Man sometimes dreams and reasons
thinks and works and prays,
While s0rdid brutss content themseive
with food and sleep;
But mans ambition leads him on frcH
star 20 star
He scales the mountain tops snd con
qHers the great deep.
Small minds have small desires, but grea
minds crave the stars:
Ambition leads them on to great an
greater things;
IT'S only when their efforts tend 70 he,
the soul
To higher life that men escape ambi
tion's stiHgs. H. V. BIsBEE
rs G street northwest.
Ambition Is a sincere desire to achiev
something. 70 be something In this LIE
70 make the very best OF the talents wit
which God has endowed Us. 10 live I'D Z
! the best that Is IN Us. 20 be true 10 ou
duty 10 God, 10 our feiiOE-man. and 1
ourselves. IN other words to-
So I've that when thy summons comes {
join
The innumerable caravan. which moves
To that mysterious realm. where eacl
shall take
His chamber IN the silent halls OF death
Thou go not Ike the quarry slave a
night
scOurgsd to his dungeon. but sustaine.
and soothed
By an unfaltering trust. approach tn
grave
! Like one who wraps the drapery Of hi
7 couch
About him and lies down to pieasan
dreams. Mrs z VIA
81 New Jersey svs1Es northwest
Our natures are Ike oil-compound q
with anything, yet viii We strive 70 swir
to the top.-Fletcher. VIOLA ALLEN.
/ Arlington, Va
The word ambition carries in mos
minds the sense Of q striving for som
selfish purpose. but there are aims o
ambitions which. as Kant says, Are a
/ the Same time duties. They are the per
1 fecting OF ourselves: the happiness Q
others. The ambition which makes on
stand well with his own conscience an
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