THE PERILS OF SUCCESS
“It is self-satisfaction .that everywhere stops progress; the two cannot exist to-gether,” says Dean Inge, in the Guardian. “A man comes into the world with great gifts; at first he makes a good use of them. This is the time when lie does his best work, as a rule just before the world discovers him. After he has succeeded, we too often trace a lamentable falling off. There is no further real advance in the man himself. Fresh honours may be heaped upon him, but each is less deserved than the last. He is now satisfied with himself and forthwith the vision once so keen becomes faint, the ready hand loses its cunning, the sure feet stumble; well if the conscience too does not become blunted, and if the man does not become a humbug and a hypocrite. Even in the affairs of this world, the man who counts himself to have apprehended has shot his bolt; there will be moie of interest to say about him.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2962, 14 November 1925, Page 3
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171THE PERILS OF SUCCESS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2962, 14 November 1925, Page 3
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