A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE. ■lt is never too late to begin to win. Think awhile before you smile, for this is true, however much evidence to the contrary you may think you possess. -Many of the world’s greatest men made good late—very late—in ' life, and, in many eases, after the world had written failure after their name. These men showed that no man is a certain failure until he dies or quits, which amounts to the same thing, anyhow. But, why, you ask me, should this tale be told To men grown old, or who are growing old ? It is too late! Ah, nothing is too late, Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse ifrom his compeers, When each had number more than fourscore years. And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his “Characters of Aten.” No! It’s never too late to begin to win, unless your will has grown ifeeble—your heart has grown cold—your nerve has grown old. History furnishes us with remarkable successes achieved after life’s noonday had long been passed. Gladstone, speaking of himself, shows us that he is one of these. “Had 1 died at threescore years and ten,” lie said, “half my life’s work would have remained undone.” No, it’s never .too late to begin to win—but it will be too late of you don’t begin. —M. PRESTON STANLEY.