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How Poor Young Men May Succeed

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
July
Year
1860
Copyright
Public Domain
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Young man, are you poor, and with out maiins of splurghg in lite, as you launch upon its billows ? Is your father poor and unable to give you an outfit? Be not disheartened on account of these things. Tako carnest hold of life, and uever regard yourself in any other üght than that ol'being destined to a high and noble purpose. Study closely the bent of your own rnind for labor or a profosaion. Whatever you resolve upon, do it early ; follow it steadily and untiringly ; never look back to what you have encountered, but alfaya forward to what is in your grasp The world owes every man a comfortable living, and a respectable position in so ciety ; means are abundant to every man's suceess; and men have only to adapt will and action to them. To repine over a want cf money and property to start out in the world with, and over the want of the props of influential relatives, is unmar.ly. Let a young man etrive to créate a íortune rather than seek to inberit one. It is an ignoble spirit that leads a young man to borrow instead of bequeathing meana. Go forth into the world, young man, conscious of your God within you, and his providence over you, and fight your own way to distinction, to honor and to comtort. Pity in your utmost soul the young man who without any change is unable to support himself, and ia whining around and begging the inftuence 01 othera, to get hirn into employment! Feel, under all circumstances, that it is more noble, more honorable to eat the crust you have earned, than to flouriah with coppers inherited. You may lift your head proudly to face and confront the noblest among us, when you are conscious of beingthe architect of your own fortune. Young man, aro you poor ? Be honest, be virtuous, be industrious ; hold up your head, say by your actions and looks, what the poel has said in words - " I gcorn the man who boasts hia birl.b, Aad b:iasts his tilles aad his Unds ! Who takes his nanio and htrltsge, From out a father'rt dyin hands:"