man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, wh

irst in the science of government, but the art of finding a satisfac

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." "Nor do I," said the merchant, laughing at the earnestness of his clerk. "Only don't put me away, sir, don't put me away. Try me at something besides selling. I cannot sell; I know I cannot sell." "I know that, too," said the principal; "that is what is wrong." "

fant. Put him into his art, and how high he soars above you! How quietly he enters into a heaven of which he has

ut of its element. But as soon as the fins feel the water, they mean something. Fifty-two per cent of our college graduates studied law,

is a narrow, one-sided, stunted growth, not a manly growth. Nature abhors the slightest perversion

feels unmanned, unsexed. He cannot resp

tural exertions to win. How many truck and family-horse lawyers make themselves ridiculous by trying to speed on the law track, where courts and juries only laugh at them. The effort to redeem

down to the machine-shop on Monday morning." It was many years before Jonathan escaped from the shop to

lect medical subjects for the alluring study of philosophy or literature. But when he was eigh

e him some "uppers" to cut out by a pattern which had a three-cornered hole i

s grandfather gave the lad ten shillings for writing an elegy on his grandmother. As he handed it to him, he sa

own. His mother was shocked on returning from church one day to find that the child had taken down the sacred family

eek his fortune. All he had was courage and determination to make something

ve always had a regard for dunces,-those of my own school days were among the pleasantest of the fellows, and have turned out by no means the dullest in life; whereas, many a youth who coul

beach, was seen at the door of her house, with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Parting

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ilure was due wholly to his being out of place. His bitter disappointments at his half successes were really pitiable because to him

Why do you tell that blockhead the same thing twenty times over?" asked John Wesley's father. "Because," replied his moth

s his breath. He is industrious, but he works mechanically and without heart. It is to support himself and family, not because he cannot help i

pects himself and is happy because all his powers are at play in their natural sphere. There is no compromising of his faculties, no cramping of legal acumen upon the farm; no suppressing of forensic oratorical powers at th

e a botch at anything else. Will-power and application cannot make a farmer of a born painter any more than a lumbering draught horse can be changed into a race horse. When the powers are

ollege. Grant's mother called the future General and Pres

rd from. When elected to Parliament, his lofty spirit was chilled by the cold sarcasm and contemptuous indifference of Pitt, whom he was expected by his friends

veyor and civil engineer, before he got into

pleased the latter said, "James promised me when I left home, that he would give up poetry and stick to bo

empts to imitate another man, when there is no one like you in all creation, as the pattern was broken when you were born, is not onl

nd the echo even of a great man is a sorry contra