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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: How to Succeed - -Author: Rosetta Dunigan - -Release Date: August 30, 2019 [EBook #60200] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW TO SUCCEED *** - - - - -Produced by hekula03, David Wilson and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by the Library of Congress) - - - - - - - - - -HOW TO SUCCEED - -BY Miss Rosetta Dunigan - -1919 - -[Decoration] - -Price 25c. - -Neilson Printing Co., 405 Beale Ave., Memphis, Tenn. - - - - -[Illustration: ROSETTA DUNIGAN] - - - - -PREFACE - - -Those acts which go to form a person’s influence are little things, -but they are potential for good or bad in the lives of others. Though -they are as fleeting as the breath which gave them, their influence is -as enduring as they reach. But may we strive to scatter loving, -cheering, encouraging words, to soothe the weary, and awaken the -nobler feelings of those with whom we daily come in contact. - -The cause of great joys, like those of sorrow, are few and far -between, but every day brings us much good if we will but gather it. -All successful men are remarkable, not only for general vigor, but for -their attention. It is often that in view of these facts men will -often neglect. He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will -never do anything. In the complicated and marvelous machinery of -circumstances it is absolutely impossible to decide what would have -happened to some event if the smallest deviation had taken place in -the march of those who preceded them. The little things in youth -accumulate into character in age and destiny in eternity. Little sins -make up the grand total of life. Each day is brightened or clouded. -Great things come but seldom, and are often unrecognized until passed. -If a man conceives the idea of becoming eminent in learning, and -cannot toil through the many drudgeries necessary to carry him on, his -learning will soon be told. Or if he undertakes to become rich, but -despises the small and gradual advances by which wealth is acquired, -his expectations will be the sum of his riches. The successful -business man at home, surrounded by articles of luxury, is a spectacle -calculated to spur on the toiler. - -But the merchant at his office has had to work, yes to toil over -columns of figures to post his ledger; and while you were carelessly -spending a dollar, he has ransacked his books to discover what has -become of a stray shilling. Words may seem to us but little things, -but they possess a power beyond calculation. They swiftly fly from us -to others, and we scarcely give them a passing thought. - - - - -Failure a Stepping Stone to Success. - - -It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much -oftener succeed through failure. There were hours of despondency when -Shakespeare thought himself no poet and Raphael no painter, when the -greatest wits doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts. - -Many have to make up their need to encounter failure again and again -before they finally succeed, but if they have pluck the failure will -only serve to arouse their energies, and stimulate them to renewed -efforts. No one can tell how many of the world’s most brilliant -geniuses have succeed because of their first failures. Precept, study, -advice and example could never have taught them so well as failure has -done and this latter is often of more importance than the former. - -We have read of our late B. T. Washington, we can realize the fact -that from boyhood even till his death, he sought an opportunity, -though the opportunity sometime seemed to be very small. Dr. B. T. -felt the need of an education yes, he felt there was something he -could do someday for the betterment of his race, so he accepted the -small opportunities and after became a man of fame, integrity, and -honor, he did not have the opportunity that most of the boys and girls -have today, but because of his determination he was able to live and -die a man of fame and honor. - -Young Ladies and Gentlemen; a great deal has been done to help improve -to the race, but do you know there is still more to be done, and there -is something that we can do. There is more expected of us today than -it was expected of men years ago; so we must begin work more earlier -in life. Young Ladies and Gentlemen; let us put our whole heart mind -and brains to work to help improve our race; though we may fail but -from this failure we can organize future success. - -We may wish ourselves great but unless we do something we shall -forever be a wisher. - -We must realize that our ways in this world is like a wall under a row -of trees, checked with light and shade, and because we cannot all walk -along in the sunshine, we therefore, fix upon the darker passages and -so lose all the comfort of the cheering ones. There is no royal road -to success, the road that leads to success lies through fields of -hard, earnest and patient labor, it calls on the young man and woman -put forth all energy, and bids him build well his foundation, go to -success since it will not come to you, and remember even as steel is -tempered by heat, and through much hammering and changing original -form, is at last wrought into useful articles, so in the history of -many men do we find that they were attempered in the furnace of trials -and afflictions. - -Let us then strive against despondency, even when the way before us is -both dark and dreary it still is worse than useless to give away to -despondency. Energy and proper afflictions may recover what you have -lost; take heart; pluck up courage; give not over to despondency; by -confronting the evils of life they will lose their force. - -We are able to know today that intelligence has awakened and spreaded -out her hands, and from time immemorial intellectual endowment have -been crowned with bays of honor, men have worshiped at the sign of -intellect with almost an eastern idolatry, the world at large has -crowned education with its richest honors, its pathway has been strewn -with flowers, its brow has won the loftiest plume, and now we own -schools, we must prepare ourselves to meet the demand of the world, -rouse ourselves, and do not allow our best years to slip past because -we have not succeeded as we thought we would. Why; because the man who -never failed is a myth. If we fail now and then do not be discouraged. -It is indeed a happy providence that given to mankind the bright -shining sun of hope to dispel the gloom of despondency. We have all -seen the sunburst from behind the clouds and light up a storm swept -landscape. - -The trouble is, that many of us when we are under any affliction, are -troubled with certain malicious melancholy, never take notice of the -most benighting ones. - -We must bear in mind that it is only the past and experience of every -successful man. The most successful men oftener have the most -failures. These failures which to the feeble are mere stumbling -blocks, to the strong serve to remove the scales from their eyes so -that they now see clearer, and go on their way with a firmer tread and -more determined mien, and compel life to yield to them its most -enduring trophies. - -The world is not coming to an end, nor society going to destruction, -because our petty plans have miscarried. The present failure should -only teach us to be more wary in the future and this will gather a -rich harvest as the final outcome of our efforts. The most successful -men oftener has the most failures. So if success were to crown our -efforts now, where would be the great success of our future. - - - - -HOW TO SUCCEED—BOTH ARE NEEDED. - - -Conditions are by no means what they should be unless there is -opportunity for the full development of manners and politeness. - -There is a great difference between manners and politeness. Manners is -one thing and politeness is another. A person possessed of these -qualities, though he had never seen a court, is truly agreeable; and -if without them would continue a clown, though he had been all his -life a gentleman usher. A traveler of taste at once perceives that the -educated men are polite all the world over, but that ignorant men are -polite only at home. Good manners are well-nigh an essential part of -life’s education, and their importance cannot be too largely magnified -when we consider that they are the outward expression of an inward -virtue. Social courtesies should emanate from the heart, for remember -always that the worth of manners consists in being the sincere -expression of feelings. Like the dial of a watch, they should indicate -that the works within are good and true. True civility needs no false -lights to show its points. It is the embodiment of truth, the mere -opening out of the inner self. - -The truest politeness comes of sincerity. It must be the outcome of -the heart or it will make no lasting impression, for no amount of -polish will dispense with truthfulness. To acquire that ease and grace -of manners which distinguishes and is possessed by every well-bred -person one must think of others rather than of one’s self, and study -to please them even at one’s own convenience. The golden rule of life -is also the law of politeness, and such politeness implies -self-sacrifice, many struggles and conflicts. It is an art and tact -rather than an instinct and inspiration. - -Many a man who now stands ranked as a gentleman because his smile is -ready and his bow exquisite, is in reality unworthy of an honor, since -he cares more for the least incident pertaining to his own comfort -than he does for the greatest occasion of discomfort to others. A man -of politeness and manners does not hint by words that he deems himself -better, wiser or richer than any one about him. He is “never stuck -up,” nor looks down upon others because they have no titles, honors or -social position equal to his own. He never boasts of his achievements -by affecting to underrate what he has done. He prefers to act rather -than to talk, to be busy rather than to seem, above all things is -distinguished by his deep insight and sympathy, his quick perception -of an attention to those little and apparently insignificant things -that may cause pleasure or pain to others. In giving his opinions he -does not dogmatize. He listens patiently and respectfully to all other -men, and, if compelled to dissent from their opinions, acknowledges -his fallibility and asserts his own views in such a manner as to -command the respect of all who hear him. Frankness and cordiality mark -all his intercourse with his fellows and, however high his station, -the humblest man feels instantly at ease in his presence. The success -or failure of one’s plans have often turned upon the address and -manner of the man. If we wish to be successful men and women, we must -first be in possession of both politeness and manners. - - - - -POVERTY MAY BE A BITTER DRAUGHT, YET IT OFTEN IS A TONIC. - - -The majority of the men of note in this country are not the sons of -those fathers who could give them all they want, and much more than -they should have, but are those who were brought up in cottages and -cabins cutting their way through difficulties on every side to their -present commanding position. - -It is not prosperity so much as advertising, not wealth so much as -poverty, that stimulates the perseverance of strong and healthy -natures, rouses their energies and develops their character. Indeed, -misfortune and poverty have frequently converted an indolent votary of -society into a useful member of the community and made him a moving -power in the great workshop of the world, teaching men and developing -the powers which Nature has bestowed on them. - -It can’t be too often repeated that it is not the blessings of life, -its sunshine and calms, that make men, but its rugged experiences, its -storms and trials. Thousands of men are bemoaning present indigence -who might have won riches and honor had they only been compelled by -early poverty to develop their manhood. Poverty does more, perhaps, -than anything else to develop the energetic, self-reliant trait of -character, without which the highest ability makes but sorry work of -life’s battles. - -Of all poverty that of the mind is the most deplorable, and is at the -same time without excuse. Every one who wills it can lay in a rich -store of mental wealth. The poor man’s purse may be empty, but he has -as much gold in the sunset, and as much silver in the moon, as -anybody. Wealth of heart is not dependent upon wealth of purse. - -Thus the evils of poverty are much exaggerated, and the evils, if -evils they be, are often all for our own ultimate good. Poverty is -the great test of civility and touch-stone of friendship. It is one of -the mysteries of our life that genius, the noblest gift of God to man, -is nourished by poverty. - - - - -THE VICE OF SELFISHNESS DISPLAYS ITSELF IN MANY WAYS. - - -The selfish person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, -and not he for the world, to take in everything and part with nothing. -Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the history of -souls, when wrought in earliest youth, they lie in the memory of age. - -Selfishness contracts and narrows our benevolence and causes us, like -serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our -stings to all the world besides. As frost to the bud and blight to the -blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship, for confidence -cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate. - -Selfishness is the bone of all life and dwarfs all the better nature -of man. It takes from him that feeling of kindly sympathy for others’ -good, which is one of the most pleasing traits of manhood, and in -itself sets up self as the one whose good is to be chiefly sought. -These withering effects are to be seen not only in the high road and -public places of life, but in the nooks and bylanes as well. Not alone -among conquerors and kings, but among the humble and obscure in the -unsanctified lust of wealth. - -As heat changes the hitherto brittle metal into the elastic yielding, -yet deadly Damascus blade, so when the demon of avarice finds lodgment -in the heart of men, it changes all his better nature. - -It may find him delighted to good and relieving the wants of others; -it leaves him one whose whole energy and power are turned to -advancement of self alone. - - - - -THE GREATEST MISFORTUNE OF ALL IS NOT TO BE ABLE TO BEAR MISFORTUNE. - - -Heaven in its mercy has placed the fountain of wisdom in the hidden -and concealed depths of the soul, that the children of misfortune -might seek and find in its healthful waters the antidote and cordial -of their cares. Knowledge and sorrow are blended together, just as -ignorance and folly. - -Man is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect -blade do not dream of the process by which it was completed. Man is a -sword; daily life is the workshop and God is the artificer, and the -trials and sorrows of life the very things that fashion the man. When -borne down by trials they are sent only for instructions. - -In youth we look forward, the future appears calm as we approach -manhood and womanhood life changes its appearance and becomes -tempestuous and rough, as the ocean changes before the storm. In the -changes of life real joy and grief are never far apart. - -Trials come in a thousand different forms and many avenues are open to -their approach. They come with the warm throbbing of our youthful -lives, keep pace with the measured tread of manhood’s noon, and depart -not from the descending footsteps of decrepitude age. We may not hope -to be entirely free from either disciplinary trials or the fiery darts -of the enemy until we are through with life’s burdens. Men may be so -old that ambition has no chain, but they are never too old to -experience trials. Misfortune gathers around great men as storms do -around great mountains, but, like them, they break the storms and -purify the air. Those who have had misfortune are like those who know -many languages. They have learned to understand and be understood by -all. Time is the rider that breaks youth. To the young how bright the -world looks—how full of novelty and enjoyment. But as years pass on -they are found to abound in sorrowful scenes as well as those pleasant -scenes of toil, suffering, difficulty and perhaps misfortune and -failure. Happy are they who can pass through misfortune with a firm -mind and a pure heart, encountering trials with cheerfulness and -standing erect beneath even the heaviest burdens. - -Misfortune is a crown of thorns, but it becomes a wreath of light on -the brow which it has lacerated. Oh, it is a cross on which the spirit -groans. Let us learn to be able to bear our misfortune, because every -Calvary has an Olivet. To every place of crucifixion there is likewise -a place of ascension. So to be successful in this life we must be able -to bear misfortunes. - - - - -ADVERSITY THE TOUCH STONE OF CHARACTER. - - -At a superficial view it appears that adversity happens to all alike, -without regard to rank or condition. People are continually rising and -falling in all degrees of association. We often see men of high -expectations cut down and left to struggle with despair and ruin. Much -of the most useful work done by men and women has been amidst -afflictions—sometimes as a relief from it, sometimes as a sense of -duty overwhelming their personal sorrows. - -There beats not a heart but that has felt the force of adversity. -There is not an eye but has witnessed many scenes of sorrow. How can -we exercise the grace of contentment if all things succeed well, or -that of forgiveness if we have no enemies! Sad accidents and a state -of adversity are the school of virtue. It reduces our spirits to -soberness and our counsels to moderation. God, who governs the world -in mercy and wisdom, never would have suffered the virtuous ones to -endure so many afflictions did He not intend that they should be the -seminary of comfort, the nursery of virtue, the exercise of wisdom and -the trial of patience, venturing for a crown and the gate of glory. -Adversity sent by Providence must be submitted to in a humble spirit, -or they will not conduce to lasting good. As the musician straineth at -his strings, and yet breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweet -melody and better concord. Adversity is the medicine of the mind. If -it is not pleasing it is wholesome. No soul is so obscure that God -does not take thought for its schooling. The sun is the central light -of the solar system; but it has a mission to the ripening corn and the -purpling cluster on the vine, as well as the ponderous planet. The -sunshine that comes fluttering through the morning mists with healing -on its wings, and charging all the birds to singing, should have also -a message from God to sad hearts. No soul is so grief-laden that it -may not be lifted to sources of heavenly comfort by recognizing the -divine love in the recurrence of earthly blessings. In a great -adversity there is no light either in the mind or in the sun, for when -the inward light is fed with fragrant oil there can be no darkness, -though clouds should cover the sun. But when, like a sacred lamp in -the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, -though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens. - - - - -TRUE DIGNITY OF MIND. - - -True dignity of mind is always modest in expression. The grace of an -action is gone as soon as we are convinced that it was done only that -persons might applaud the act. But he who is truly great, and does -good because it is his duty, is not at all anxious that others should -witness his acts. His aim is to do good because it is right. - -It is impossible to conceive of a truly great character and not think -of one with the spirit of kindness. True dignity of spirit will not -dwell with the haughty in manner. True dignity delights to take up its -abode with the generous and those who seek to relieve the misery of -others as they would their own. As long as human nature is a mass of -contradictions this is not to be wondered at. But the influence of -such men is ever working, and will sooner or later show itself. Men -such as these are the true life-blood of the community to which they -belong. True dignity of character is within the reach of all. It is -the result of patient endeavors after a life of goodness and, when -acquired, cannot be swept unless by the consent of its possessor. -Wealth may be lost by no fault of its possessor, but greatness of soul -is an abiding quality. - -One may fail in his other aims; the many accidents of life may bring -to naught his most patient endeavors after worldly fame or success; -but he who strives for dignity of character will not fail of reward if -he but diligently seek the same by earnest resolve and patient labor. - -Is there not in this a lesson of patience for many who are almost -weary of striving for better things? If success does not crown their -ambitious efforts, will they not be sustained by the smile of an -approving conscience? Strong in this, they can wait with patience -till, in the fullness of time, their reward cometh. - - - - -TO BE FAMOUS WE MUST BE AMBITIOUS. - - -Young ladies and gentlemen, an appeal to you. - -The desire to be thought well of, to desire to be great in goodness, -is in itself a noble quality of the mind, and is often termed -ambition. If it is our ambition to gain distinction, we will rob the -weak and flatter the strong, and become the fawning slave of those who -are able to foist us above our betters and deck us with the titles and -honors of the great without any regard to our own merit of -respectability. But if we are ambitious to do good, without any regard -for the fame we may win or the praise we may command, our course will -be honorable and our acts and deeds most worthy and good. When we have -done with the world the prints of our worthy ambition we will still -remain in the minds of those who come after us to enjoy and reap the -benefits, for which they will revive our memory and retain our names -in the lists of those whose labors have aided in enlightening the -world and exalting the general interest of mankind. - -Much of the advancement of the world can be traced of the efforts of -those who were moved by ambition to become famous. Ambition is like -fire. It is an excellent servant, but a poor master. As long as it is -held strictly to integrity and honor, and to conform to the -requirements of justice, there is but little danger of a man’s having -too much of it. - -Ambition is an excessive quality and, as such, is apt to lead us to -the most extraordinary results. But if our ambition leads us to excel -or seek to excel in that which is good, the currents it may induce us -to support will be of great good. But if it is stimulated by pride, -envy or vanity, we will confine our support principally to the counter -currents of life, and thus leave behind us misery and destruction. - -The happiness promised by ambition dissolves in sorrow just as we are -about to grasp it. It makes the same mistake concerning wealth. She -begins by accumulating power as a means of happiness, but she finishes -by continuing to accumulate it as an end. - - - - -DARK AND FULL OF DISAPPOINTMENTS MAY BE OUR LOT. - - -It is generally known that he who expects much will be often -disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectations. But -one of the saddest thoughts that come to us in life is the thought -that in this bright, beautiful and joy-giving world of ours there are -many shadowed lives. There is but one way in which we can succeed, -when we admit that happiness is but a state of the mind, and that -success is the faithful performance of known duties, then shall we -acquire both. Though we may wander the wide world over and gather -wealth and fame, they will be found impotent to confer happiness, and -life to us will seem full of disappointments; but it is because we -failed to seek for life in that spirit of quiet content which conducts -it. It never happened to any man since the making of this world nor -ever will, to have all things according to his desires. If you risk -nothing, of course you lose nothing. Let him who is enlisted for the -war expect to meet the foe. It is with life’s troubles as with the -risks of the battlefield—there is always less danger to the party who -stands firm than to the one who gives way. To give way to -disappointments is to invite defeat. To bravely cast about for means -to resist them is to put them to flight, and out of temporary -misfortune by the foundation of a more glorious success, by sending -disappointments to the winds; taking life as it is and with a strong -will, make life as near what it should be as possible. - -The most pure lives sometimes are those who are met with the most -disappointments. With some it is the wreck of a great ambition. Yes, -he has built his ship and launched it on the sea of life loaded with -the richest jewels of his strength and manhood. And behold, it comes -back to him beaten and battered by the fury gale. We may add some rays -of sunshine to our path if we earnestly try to dispel the clouds of -discontent that may arise in our bosom, and by doing so enjoy fully -the bountiful blessings that God our creator has given to his humblest -creatures. - - - - -MEMORY IS THE CABINET OF THE IMAGINATION. - - -Memory is the cord binding all the natural gifts and excellences -together, and though it is not wisdom in itself, still it is the -primary fundamental power without which there could be no other -intellectual operations. The memory of good actions is the starlight -of the soul. Yes, it tempers prosperity by recalling past distress, by -bringing up the thoughts of past joys. It controls youth and delights -old age. Without memory life would be a blank. The mind must be made -to think as to remember and to remember principles and outlines. We -think of faces, and they return to us as plainly as when their -presence gladdened our eyes. When sorrow and trial, care and -temptation surrounded us how often do we gain courage and renewed -strength by thinking of the past. The course of none has been along so -beaten a road that they remember not fondly some resting places in -their journey—some turns in their path in which lovely prospects -broke in upon them. How much is spoken which deserves no remembrance, -and which does not serve as a simple link in one’s existence not -calling forth one result for others’ need or thrilling one chord with -nobler impulses. The gift of memory is diversified to different -people, some having a taste of history, some for literature and others -delight in politics, and so on through all the different phases of -existence. Memory has been compared to a storehouse. How much -important then that we renew the mind to healthful actions instead of -feeding it on poisons until it will produce nothing but poisonous -thoughts. - - - - -Transcriber’s Note - - -Inconsistent hyphenation (touch-stone/touch stone) has been left as -printed in the original. A few obvious typographical errors have -been corrected. - -The sentence printed in the original as - - Happy are they who can pass through h a firm mind and a - pure heart, encountering trials with cheerfulness and standing erect - beneath even the heaviest burdens. - -has been reconstructed as - - Happy are they who can pass through misfortune with a firm mind and a - pure heart, encountering trials with cheerfulness and standing erect - beneath even the heaviest burdens. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of How to Succeed, by Rosetta Dunigan - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW TO SUCCEED *** - -***** This file should be named 60200-0.txt or 60200-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/2/0/60200/ - -Produced by hekula03, David Wilson and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by the Library of Congress) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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