Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-26

can get success right where you are
now.
|: YOU saw a small fish wearing him
self out fighting against the stream TO
get drink higher up. you would ask
him. Why don't YOU drink where you
alc?"
You can drink where you arc; drink
Of success as well there. for "a start.
rs anywhere else. The start is in you.
Not in the job.
Remember that your work is your
brains gymnasium.
If you cheat your work you cheat
yourself.
II YOU were training FOR a ,oo.racc.
boxing match. or any other athletic
sort, you would TIE grateful 10 "A train
"r mat would make you work hard.
You might be tired at night. foot
sore. eager FOR bed. Bat YOU would
praise the trainer. knowing trat he
had added 10 your chance OF success.
our Work is your gymnasium and
your trainer
1t isn't that you do this hing mr.
that thing for the money YOU earn. hut
u - that YOU develop yourself
Make w your mind 10 use Won,
power and to save it
fou must save your power before
YOU can use IL,
and OF body from long sleep. regular
hours wise living, before you can use
the strength.
You must save some OF your money.
however little. before YOU can he free
from the days routine ana the hands
OF the clock.
The man who has not freed himself
from the hands OF the clock bv self
denial, saving and determination is
the most pitifu! kind OF slave. for
ne mas not the power 70 seize the op-
portunity If II offers.
Make the resolution to control your
self; concentrate your powers on good
work; develop your body with regular
hours. sensible food, temperate living:
develop your mind with good reading,
and make yourself free man by
ccononys-the rest of the resolutions
viii take care Of themselves
when man is using his will power
he is leading Il life worth while.
And the man leading life worth
while is not a fool; he does not dissi-
pate; he does not drink. He takes his
life and his career seriously.
The merest college hoy Will behave
well. keep his word lead life Of self
denial. for chance TO win college
race
Shame on the man who has not the
courage TO do for himself. for his fam
lily. for chance to win in the race
of life what a green boy does for his
college.
Above all. do not let the failures Of
read carefully the life Of any success
you find failures scattered thickly
through 1t.
And the greater the man, very often,
the greater the temporary failure:
Napoleon wanted 10 commit suicide
1, Il
tain recognition.
Gihbon the great historian. was an
undisciplined. self-indulgent over-fat.
man for yearS-practically
n failure at mature age.
Past failures ana disappontments do
not count; they mean nothing il will
power is still there
For every one Of us there is n real
success in this world, big or little, ac-
cording TO our power. but big enough
to make each one happy If he will
earnestly work for 1t.
y new year opens. certain num-
Der of men will look back to 1916 as
the fortunate year. the year in which
they started.
May you be one Of them!
old is the making and breaking OF
good resolutions. But the history OF
breaking good resolutions has been the
lions kept that have affected the world.
not the resolutions broken
On the western bank Of the Nile the
Germans--if they get therc--will see
the broken fragments OF the statue Of
Rameses weighing more than 100000
pounds: they will study the Inscription
ana study the resolutions-thc rcsolu-
tlon OF peace and friendship that the
King OF the Utilities, Khitasir, made
with his Egyptian brother Rameses
1t is resolution written by khitasir
on plate of silver saying, among
other things:
lie shall be my ally: he shall he
my friend. ] will be his ally; will
be his friend forever. The sons OF the
sons Of the great King OF the Hittites
viii hold together and be friends with
The sons of the sons of the great Prince
of Egypt"
Broken was that good resolution writ
ten on silver. Broken were the good
resolutions of the European nations;
broken are the ancient temples and
the statues.
Broken will be good resolutions fol-
lowing this war and many OF the good
resolutions following this new year.
But each year, each century. finds
some Of the good resolutions kept&
And the world as whole, and In.
dividuals. become better
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