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A Word To Boys

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
October
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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A writer in an educational journal the title of which we have un fortuna' ely lost, has the following pertinent aud truthful reinarte : " Boys, listen ! The first thing you want to learn, to develop what force there is in you, is self-reliaucc ; that is, as regards your relations to man. If I were going to givo a formula for developiug the most forcible set of men. I should say : Turn them upon their own reeources, with their minds well etorcd with moral and religious truth when they are boys, and teach them to ' depend on self, and not on father.' If a boy is thrown upon his own resources at fifteen, with the world all bofore him where to choose, and he fights the battle of Ufo single-handud up to rnanhood, and don't dovelop more than an average Ehare of executive ability, there is no stuff in him worth talking about, He may learn " to plough, and sow, and reap, and inow," but this can all be doue by machines and horses, and a man wants to be better than either of these. Wipe out of your vocabulary overy such word as fait, give up wishing tor improbable results, put your hand to the plough, or whatever tooi you take to, iind then drive on and uever look back. Don't evei1 fight your person to see if it s straight ; " don't be consistent, but be Bimply true." If you go out to sea a reed shaken by the wind," it is pretty likely you vvill nevel" soe anything of

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Old News
Michigan Argus