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Editorial
May 20, 1871
The Bolivar Bulletin
Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee
What is this article about?
Editorial offering advice on achieving success in life by focusing efforts on one's current occupation, avoiding fickleness, and pursuing steady, purposeful progress, while criticizing aimless and indirect labor.
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Success in Life.
The great secret in life consists in bending all your efforts to whatever you happen to engage in. Don't you let your fickleness lead you to slight your present occupation, and to think lightly of it, hoping something will turn up by and by. The way to get along in the world is to make every step one that is ahead, and each to follow its predecessor. For full fifty per cent of the effort of the world is absolutely wasted in indirect, diffuse, indefinite labor. Young men start out in life without purpose or point, casting a thought neither on their fitness nor unfitness for a particular calling; now doing this thing, then that: and after that. nothing; one day going on, another on the right (which is wrong) or left, the next backward, and then not going on at all, which is perhaps as bad as the whole combined. The right line in life is the one which leads straight ahead. This almost always secures success, If you are creeping, do it energetically until you can get on your feet to walk; but never do both at once. And when once on your feet, never get on your hands and knees again; but strain all your efforts to your new life.
The great secret in life consists in bending all your efforts to whatever you happen to engage in. Don't you let your fickleness lead you to slight your present occupation, and to think lightly of it, hoping something will turn up by and by. The way to get along in the world is to make every step one that is ahead, and each to follow its predecessor. For full fifty per cent of the effort of the world is absolutely wasted in indirect, diffuse, indefinite labor. Young men start out in life without purpose or point, casting a thought neither on their fitness nor unfitness for a particular calling; now doing this thing, then that: and after that. nothing; one day going on, another on the right (which is wrong) or left, the next backward, and then not going on at all, which is perhaps as bad as the whole combined. The right line in life is the one which leads straight ahead. This almost always secures success, If you are creeping, do it energetically until you can get on your feet to walk; but never do both at once. And when once on your feet, never get on your hands and knees again; but strain all your efforts to your new life.
What sub-type of article is it?
Moral Or Religious
Social Reform
What keywords are associated?
Success In Life
Focused Effort
Purpose
Fickleness
Steady Progress
Young Men
Indirect Labor
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Achieving Success Through Focused Effort And Purpose
Stance / Tone
Exhortative Advice
Key Arguments
Bend All Efforts To Current Occupation
Avoid Fickleness And Slighting Present Work
Make Steady, Progressive Steps In Life
Much Worldly Effort Is Wasted In Indirect Labor
Young Men Often Lack Purpose And Direction
Straight Path In Life Leads To Success
Progress Energetically Without Regressing