PERSEVERANCE.

Observer, Volume v, Issue 115, 25 November 1882, Page 163

PERSEVERANCE.

How often we hear people say, " Persevere, and you will succeed." This is true, if we persevere we shall, we must succeed in anything we undertake. By perseroerance we do not mean periodical fits of industry, but patient toil spreading over the whole year. Keep your aim in view, and bend every nerve, and every thought to accomplish your end. Do not be discouraged at difficulties, there are always lions in the way, but; they must be conquered. If you fail once, perhaps twice, try again ; others have reached the same goal, and if you choose to do so, you may also reach it. One mother will say, " Poor Charlie is killing himself over those horrid books, and the examinations are so hard now-a-days. Nonsense, Charlie is laughing at your fears, his conscience tells him he is not working ; he is only dawdling, making a pretence of working. His chances are not higher than, twenty per cent. Another boy works every day, yet he has time to help others. He works honestly, and has no pretence about him. This is the sort of boy that is wanted to raise men to their natural position ; his chances of success are ninety-nine per cent. If anything is worth having, it is worth working for. What are we sent here for but to conquer difficulties, and to work ? Don't listen to softheaded aristocrats when they talk about the lower classes trying to equal them in education and manners. Persevere, do all the good you can and let your motto be Excelsior. Remember, the future generation of Auckland will look to us for an example ; if we are half -workers, what will they be ? G-ive them a good example in perseverance — all other virtues will follow — -and by-and-bye Auckland's commercial prosperity and educational excellence will become a certainty.