SUCCESS
To the sturdiest oi' us at times comes the mood that Chance is king. Things are governed hv luck; why worry? With the people who achieve, this is hut a nioccir and when it passes they are tip and doing once more. Only the fatalist raises the mood to a philosophy. Is Chance really king? Does the luck come to one and ignore the other? Your despondent one will give any amount of instances to prove that tlie persistent trier fails, while the lucky one who makes his effort only occasionally succeeds. It is hard to disprove: hard to sa v that there is no such thing as luck. Yet there is nothing more certain than that success is wen more frequently by patient effort than by luck. The persistent one may make his effort at the wrong time—and this not once, hut n score of times. The twenty-first effort may bring him within sight of goal. And the lucky one? Sometimes he is not so lucky n= lie looks. He lias a gracious manner. He may have developed a flair for knowing when 1 > make his effort. F.xperience is a many-sided school, and tlm mail who is alert to all those sides has simply learnt liis lesson better than the dour one who fails. —-L.C. in Auckland Star.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1928, Page 4
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