1 Character 
; Lessons to 
: Train Youth 
By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
{Copyright, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
opment league.] 
XIX.—Ambition. 
BRAHAM LIN- 
A COLN was 
born into the 
poorest of sur- 
roundings. His par- 
ents lived in such 
a condition of pov- 
erty that they could 
not even teach him 
to read. But he 
was not contented 
with his lot. He 
had a desire to be 
somebody and to 
do something 
in the world, so he 
determined to learn 
to read and taught himself with a 
‘ppelling book, and the Bible was his 
nly reading book. He had a desire 
to learn that nothing could subdue. 
‘What is this called? 
Contentment that is satisfied with 
mediocrity and insignificant results 
JAMES T. WHITE. 
- g@eases to be a virtue and becomes a 
“fault. “Good enough” never makes 
real progress and often degenerates 
miner) 
ar er ages 
{nto shiftlessness. One should aim at 
‘perfection, One needs a little discon- 
tent to spur him on. The habit of 
mind that seeks to excel is called am- 
bition. It is right to be contented with 
what we have, but not with what we 
are. 
It is a worthy ambition to work hard 
for a comfortable home. Even am- 
bition to be rich is worthy, but it must 
be remembered that riches may be 
purchased at too dear a price. 
Everybody should have the ambi- 
tion to do well whatever he does, at 
play as well as at work, but above all 
it should be his ambition to do the best 
things. Every one should cultivate an 
ambition to excel—a passion for per- 
fection. 
A boy used to crush flowers to get 
their color and painted the white side 
of his father’s cottage with all sorts 
of pictures. He became the great art- 
4st Titian. 
An old painter watched a little fel- 
low who amused himself making draw- 
ings of his pot and brushes, easel and 
stool, and said, “That boy will excel 
me some day.” And he did, for it was 
Michelangelo. 
A German boy was reading a delight- 
fully thrilling novel. Right in the 
midst of it he stopped and said to him- 
self: “Now, this will never do. I have 
work to do in real life.” And he flung 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
tne DOOK Into tne river. i1Lunat voy was 
Fichte, the great German philosopher. 
No one can afford to do less than his 
best. “Aspiration is inspiration.” Am- 
bition to excel, however, defeats its 
own purpose if it leads to the employ- 
ment of unworthy means. Ambition 
is neither a virtue nor a vice, although 
it may easily become one _ It derives 
whatever moral quality it possesses 
from its object and from the means 
employed in its attainment. 
The world admires the ambition to 
“get on” in the world and to help oth- 
ers to “get on” init. The highest am- 
bition is to achieve something for the 
benefit of one’s fellow man. 
Ambition excites enthusiasm, which 
is the compelling power that over- 
comes all obstacles. Enthusiasm en- 
ables one to do the work that his 
heart desires. It brooks no _ inter- 
ference with the accomplishment of its 
object. What matter that young Benja- 
men West had neither pigment nor 
brush! He made color from indigo 
and brushes from the cat’s hair. 
Sumner says, “Have ambition to be 
remembered, not as a great lawyer, 
doctor, merchant or scholar, but as a 
great man—every inch a king.” The 
people with high ideals are the ad- 
vance guard of humanity. They cut the 
smooth road over which march fu- 
ture generations. Whipping and scold- 
ing only made Ole Bull more devoted 
to his violin. 
Benjamin West was asked how he 
attained such excellence. He replied, 
“By observing one simple rule—to 
make each picture the best.” 
Practice.—Upon the next piece of 
work or duty you are called upon to 
perform determine to do it perfectly; 
do it better than any one else could. 
Literature. 
I cannot in this valley stay. 
The great horizons stretch away. 
The airy cliffs that wall me round 
Are ladders unto higher ground. 
To rest, to work, for each a time. 
I toil, but I must also climb. 
—Lucy Larcom. 
We build the ladder by which we rise 
From lowly earth to the vaulted skies 
\And mount to’the summit round by round. 
—J. G. Holland. 
Ah, the key of our life, that passes all 
wards, opens all locks, 
Is not I will, but I must, I must, I must, 
and I do it. 
—A. H. Clough. 
Be thou contented with thy lot in earthly 
things, 
But be forever seeking after angels’ wings. 
—James T. White. 
There is nothing noble in being su- 
perior to some other man. The true 
nobility is in being superior to your 
previous self.—Hindu Saying. 
An aspiration is a Joy forever, a pos- 
session as solid as a landed estate.— 
Robert Louis Stevenson. 
The chief want in life is somebody 
who shall make us do the best we can. 
—Emerson. 
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