The Brownsville Daily Herald

Your Past and Your Future.

There is nothing more depressing than dwelling upon lost opportunities or a misspent life. Whatever your past has been, forget it. Do not drag it across the New York line. If it throws a shadow upon the present, or causes melancholy or despondency, it is you, there is not a single reason why you should retain it in your memory and there are a thousand reasons why you should bury it so deeply that it can never be resurrected.

The future is your uncut block of marble. Beware how you smite it. Don't touch it without a programme. Don't strike a blow with your chisel without a model, lest you ruin and mar forever the angel which lives within the block: but the marble of the past, which you have carved into hideous images, which have warped and twisted the ideals of your youth, and caused you infinite pain, need not ruin or mar the uncut block before you. This is one of the merciful provisions that every day present to every human being: no matter how unfortunate his past, every human being has a new uncut block of pure Parian marble before him, a new chance to retrieve the past, to improve upon it if he will.

Nothing is more foolish, more positively wicked than to drag the skeletons of the past, hideous images, the foolish deeds, the unfortunate experiences of the past into today's work to mar and spoil it. There are plenty of people who have been failures up to the present moment who could do wonders in the future if they could only forget the past if they only had the ability to cut it off, to close the door on it forever and start anew.-Success.