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Today's reading was edited

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and adapted from Success

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Word by Edward W.

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been published in Eighteen

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Ninety Five. The.

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First know most essential and

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the greatest element of success

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when starting out on a

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career is a correct knowledge

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of yourself. You should before

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you attempt anything under state.

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yourself. You should

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study yourself. You should

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be sure that no matter

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whom else you may misunderstand you

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have a correct knowledge of your own nature,

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your own character, and

2:14

your own capabilities. It

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is because so few people have this

2:19

knowledge of self that

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so many become disastrous failures

2:24

or fail in achieving what they set

2:26

out for themselves at the beginning. Every

2:30

woman and man in this world

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is created differently. No

2:34

two are alike. Therefore

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the nature, the thoughts,

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the character, and

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the capacity of one person is

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utterly unlike that of another. What

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one person can understand, another

2:49

cannot. The success

2:52

of one individual indicates nothing

2:54

to a second person. What

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one is capable of doing is

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beyond the power of another. Hence

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it is important that first of

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all you should look into

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yourself, find out what has

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been given you, and come

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to a clear understanding of what you

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can do and what you

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cannot do. It is

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one of the most pitiable sites imaginable

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to see as one

3:22

does so constantly. Young

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people floundering and fluttering from one

3:27

phase of life to another, unable

3:30

to fasten upon anyone simply

3:33

because the knowledge of themselves

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is absent. The result

3:38

is that we see so many

3:40

rounded people trying to fit

3:42

themselves in the square holes. But

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some will say, how in

3:48

the world do you get an understanding

3:50

of yourself? How do you go

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about it? No definite

3:54

answer can be given to that question.

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Any more than can a certain rule be

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led. laid down. An

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understanding of oneself is reached

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by different methods by different

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people, generally each

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method being personal to oneself.

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But this much can be said, every

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thought, every taste, every

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action, reveals ourselves

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to ourselves, and

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it is in the expression of these that

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we best learn our nature and

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our characters. We

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see ourselves with unmistakable

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accuracy for example, in

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what we most enjoy reading, in

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the people whose company we enjoy,

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and in the things that interest us.

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Where our tastes and interests lead

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us, we are generally

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truest to ourselves. Some

4:49

writer once said that most people

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find themselves out best while

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they are at a movie or watching

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TV, on the

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basis that a person shows their real

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side in the pleasures

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that they seek and enjoy. This

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is true in a large measure. The

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character of our pleasures will have

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both an indirect and a direct

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bearing upon the more practical side

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of our nature. If

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you visit an art gallery for example,

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and find that the pleasure you derive

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from the paintings takes the

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form of simple recreation, that

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you are delighted and interested in the

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canvases only so long as you are

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before them, and feel

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simply refreshed after you leave the

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gallery, it is plain

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that your nature is not suited to

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art as vocation, for

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art is just a recreation to you, a

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mental diversion from some other

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study which fascinates you more.

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If on the other hand, your instincts

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lead you to an art gallery, and

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you study rather than simply enjoy

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the painting. feelings you see, are

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curious as to the methods of the

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artist, and go away

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with your mind charged with the intention

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of gaining further knowledge from books or

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other authorities, it

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is natural to assume that your

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instinct is within you, and you

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should give it the fullest chance of

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development. In other

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words, you should in every way

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feel, realize, and know that

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a love of art possesses you before

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you adopt it as a profession, and

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thus in this way, you have

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an opportunity to study yourself

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through your pleasures. If

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as a further example, you

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find yourself seeking the company of

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adults older than yourself, women

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and men steeped in the affairs of the

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world, are happiest when

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you can be in their company and

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hear them talk of business, choose

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the reading of the lives of

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the successful as your literature, and

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lean toward the practical side of

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life, finding more real

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enjoyment in the bustle of the market

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than in the quiet of a lane or park,

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the indications are that your nature

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points you to a business career

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rather than an artistic calling.

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If you feel this way, it

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is well for you to give your developing

7:23

taste full play, and follow

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where your instincts lead you. After

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a while, what was at first

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a mere instinct or

7:33

an unformed taste will

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develop and point you to something

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definite in the business world, and

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if you be true to yourself, you

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will sooner or later find yourself

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in that particular position which

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you are best fitted to occupy and

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fill. Your

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capacities will reveal themselves to

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you, and they will teach

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you your limitations. Gaining

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knowledge of your limitations. limitations need

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not thwart your ambitions, but

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I believe that ambition should always

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walk just a little behind good

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judgment, and not in advance

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of it. Ambition

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is a splendid quality if

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properly guided and kept within

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check. It is

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a fatal possession when allowed to

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full development or sway. Like

8:24

fire or water, it is

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a wonderful servant, but it

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makes a poor master. I

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do not counsel, nor do I believe in,

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a blind following of oneself, particular

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during the formative years of

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life. But I do

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believe most earnestly that every

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person is given a certain thing to do

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in the world, and that by

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a proper study of themselves, they

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and they alone can arrive

8:52

at the clearest and surest

8:54

knowledge of that particular object.

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While I am a firm believer in

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the molding of character through the influence

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of another, my conviction

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is equally strong that every person

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is the architect of their own

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fortune, and that your truest

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course in life is to follow

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not the guidance of another, but

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your own instincts. In

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other words, I think you should,

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as early in life as possible, get

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into touch with the idea of

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your own responsibility, and

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be taught the greatest lesson that, no

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matter what others say, you

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and you alone must carve out your

9:35

own career. The most

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successful careers, the most

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honorable lives in the history of the

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world, are those which have

9:44

been shaped by a person's own hands.

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There is an element of danger in this,

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of course, but the element

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is small in comparison with the

9:54

greater danger, which lies

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in the formation of a character that

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goes against one's own. instincts.

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The aspirations of the young are not

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to be checked by the experience of

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the old. No

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matter how rich or full another

10:10

person's experience may have been, it

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counts only in a sense of

10:15

general application to another career that

10:17

stands upon its threshold. Years

10:21

should teach wisdom, but

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if we all waited for the years to

10:25

bring us wisdom, this world

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would be a sorry place to live in.

10:30

Youthful imaginings may lead to

10:32

mistakes. Youthful enthusiasm

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may encounter disappointment,

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but only experience, real

10:40

and actual experience, can

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demonstrate these things to a

10:45

young person, and the

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experience is good for them if

10:49

it teaches them a better and

10:51

truer knowledge of themselves and their

10:53

abilities. After

10:55

all, the greatest figures in the world's

10:58

history show that they were made through

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experience and what experience

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taught them. Now

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this is not to say that the young

11:07

have no use for the old. They

11:09

have, but the rule should be the

11:12

young for action and the

11:15

old for counsel. For

11:17

experience looks backward, enthusiasm

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looks forward, and

11:22

as between the two, enthusiasm

11:24

is worth more than experience

11:28

since it is the former which is

11:30

brave and strong and attempts

11:32

the impossible. If

11:34

we attempted only the possible in

11:36

this world, we should soon

11:39

stop where we are. It

11:42

is for the young woman and

11:44

man, with their enthusiasm, to

11:46

battle with the impossible and

11:48

carry the world a step farther on

11:50

in discovery if not

11:53

in actual accomplishment. I

11:56

say all this because I want every young person

11:58

to feel that, to large

12:00

extent they stand alone

12:02

for themselves in the world. Counsel

12:05

you may seek and you

12:08

should seek but the action

12:10

is yours and yours alone

12:13

and to make that action sure and wise

12:16

it is necessary that you

12:18

should understand your tools. You

12:21

must know with what you have to work

12:24

and once sure of your tools you

12:26

must learn the thing you have set for

12:28

yourself to do. Having a

12:30

distinct purpose in view and being

12:33

fully conscious that you are right and capable

12:37

not allowing yourself to be swerved

12:39

from your reign. After

12:41

acquiring true knowledge of yourself there

12:44

is nothing so valuable to you

12:46

as an absolute distinctness of purpose

12:49

and then pursuing that purpose

12:51

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