The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-10
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It is better to be narrow and 10 know a few things with certainty than be broad" and be doubtful and hestant about everything. Take for example, the fact of limitation. Everybody has his limitations. Everywhere there are limitations There are certain things some us will never be able to do, and there definite boundaries up around every force and principle known universal fact.
 But establish such fact is not the end of the matter. matter. There still remains the manner in which men react to it. Facts facts, but they may mean dfscouragement defeat; an olheT man. guidance inspiration and success
 It is curious to contemplate, that need to modify very, very few natural facts; but need adopt the facts
 Now, in the matter of personal limitations this difference in the attitudes of is very marked. One man regards his limitations a big Forbid den" sign set squareIy his path another man regards his limitations as very useful sgnpost set up at the side of the road-'This Way to Achieve 'ment."
 We must not overlook the fact that both of these men may be right and still be contradictory of each other. If is headed straight forward on the road that he should his limitations serve as guidepost But if a man is determined to angle off and keep the road that leads his destna- hibions.
 hostile hindrance.
 human will and he would bold indeed who should set limits to what man can do- If the most unlikely should set himself with all his strength and will and spirit to achieve the most likely success, he would be likely to win to amazing degree. The full exertion of the Will ries one far.
 But it goes without saying that such a man could possibly win full a of success the who naturally equipped and applied himself just diligently.
 The man who exerted all his powers in unlike ly field, that is, a field for which tended, may have the satisfaction of overcoming difficulty but it is quite apparent that had he piled the same energy to a likely field, field for which his bent and ability fitted him. his success would have been very much greater.
 You in bucking his limitations he ed so much of his power in negative effort that less of it available for positive effort e had worked within his limitations making him, instead of fighting them and losing their cooperative value he would have had the stream of natural tendency with him instead against him.
 Limitations are not to be condemned until they understood. We misunderstood them when regard them wholly negative We often think limitations as the --Ihou Shalt Nots' of life You shall be a. poet. You shall not be a statesman. You shall not be surgeon. Yeu shall a scholar. You shall not be society pet. You shall not be a merchant-That is how think of limi- tations.
 But limitations are positive. Instead of insist ing on what you cannot do, they indicate what can do When the stream of your energy runs strongly toward career, that D positive indca- ton; it is the limitation of energy which your chance of may found. into the right path, warning against the by paths which open this side and
 That which throws limits against you being a poet is very strength which efuips you o be engineer, whatever special bent may be-
 Follow the direction in which your limitations point,
 A man carries his own directions inside himself in the of his tastes and capacities.
 Every thing he cannot do is finger pointing the thing he do.
 Every failure he makes indication of the which his success may be found.
 Limitations exist; deny the testi- nony of experience point; but they as friendly hints to man. not as hindrance across his path.
 It is like this: you are driving along a highway country, and the highway Is fenced on both