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in the minds of the people as one of the greatest orators America 

 has ever produced. "No man can end with being superior who will 

 not begin with being inferior." 



We must learn to labor and to wait; let us do our duty and not 

 worry about results, because worry kills more men than work; and 

 again, if a man wants a higher salary, let him do his work in such a 

 manner that his employer sees that he is worth more and thinks that 

 he cannot get along without him, and the salary will come without 

 his asking for it. We must have the same determination to succeed 

 that Thos. Carlyle showed when he had his first history of the 

 French Revolution, which took him several years to complete, burnt 

 by a maid-of-all-work in the house of a friend to whom he lent the 

 book; instead of giving up in despair, he set right to work to get out 

 another volume which, without a doubt, was far superior to the 

 first volume and served to give him his reputation as a historian. 

 Audubon had his work on American Birds eaten by two Norwegian 

 rats, but replaced it in three years. When a lady once asked Turner 

 what his secret was, he replied, "I have no secret, madam, but hard 

 work." This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't suc- 

 ceed because they don't learn it. More pay and less work is what 

 most men are after. All occupations have some unpleasant work 

 about them that has to be done, but, as Douglas Jerrold says, "the 

 most humble work or trade has some pleasant side about it, for if 

 I were a grave digger or hangman, there are some people that I 

 could work for with the greatest of pleasure." 



After saying so much of how to attain success, we might consider 

 for a few moments what success and failure is. Matthews says, 

 "True happiness consists in the acquisition and not in the possession; 

 man was made for activity, and by pursuing what hope wants we get 

 this needed activity." Success in life should be considered as a 

 means and not as an end and we should never lose sight of the 

 fact that contentment is more than kingdom. Was the only divine 

 life ever lived on this earth a success humanly speaking? Are you 

 entitled to pronounce your fellowman who has humbly tried to copy 

 it a cipher, because he has not, like you, courted applause and made 

 some little nook or corner of the earth ring with his name? There 

 is no possible valuation of human character which would make the 

 slightest showing in the stock-list and hence success, truly under- 

 stood, must be sought, not in what we have, but in what we are. It 

 has been said that we do not choose our own parts in life and have 

 nothing to do with those parts. Our simple duty is confined to play- 

 ing them well; and when we shall have done all the things which are 

 commanded of us, we are to say "we are unprofitable servants, we 

 have done that which was our dutv to do." 



