THE DIFFERENCE
Calmness is a great advantage.—Herbert.
When the other fellow gets rich it’s luck,
Just blundering luck that brings him gains,
But when we win it’s a case of pluck
With intelligent effort and lots of brains.
Man becomes greater in proportion as he learns to know himself and his faculty. Let him once become conscious of what he is, and he will soon learn to be what he should.—Schelling.
The country boy is sure that if he could get into the large city where there are more and greater chances for doing things he would make a great success. The city boy is quite as certain that if he could get out into a country town where the competition is not so fierce and where there is more room to grow he would do something worth while. In discussing this subject, Edward Bok says: “It is the man, not the place that counts. The magnet of worth is the drawing power in business. It is what you are, not where you are. If a young man has the right stuff in him, he need not fear where he lives or does his business. Many a large man has expanded in a small place. The idea that a small place retards a man’s progress is pure nonsense. If the community does not offer facilities for a growing business, they can be brought to it. Proper force can do anything. All that is needed is right direction. The vast majority of people are like sheep, they follow a leader.”
Men must know that in this theater of man’s it remaineth only to God and angels to be lookers-on.—Bacon.
It is no man’s business whether he is a genius or not; work he must, whatever he is, but quietly and steadily.—Ruskin.
For the solace and enlightenment of those who think they are the victims of an unkind fortune and that conditions are better elsewhere I herewith offer Deacon Watts’s remarks concerning