As Ye Hoe so Shall Ye Reap 



the average, and your promotion will 

 not stop until you strike a level where 

 you can no longer excel, and there you 

 find your probable limit. Nobody 

 knows just where that is to be found 

 until he has tried, and tried hard. We 

 all have our limitations even the ten- 

 millionth man but it is up to each to 

 test things out for himself. 



The idea that ^getting along in the 

 world is altogether a matter of "pull" 

 is of course a convenient excuse for 

 one's own failure to progress. One man 

 may hoe just as hard as his neighbor, 

 and not get on nearly so fast nor har- 

 vest anything like so good a crop; and 

 he may be just as honest, just as faith- 

 ful and in some cases apparently more 

 deserving than his mate. And he and 

 his friends are apt to talk of the "luck" 

 of the other fellow, and talk of favorit- 

 ism. Well, it is, in one sense; but if so 

 it is probably nothing more than the 

 favor extended to the one by the gods 

 and denied by them, for some inex- 

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