Success

To succeed in any undertaking there must be an intense longing to realize a definitely conceived ideal which seems to be worthy of any sacrifice. Taine says that "success in life depends on knowing how to be patient, how to endure drudgery, how to un make and re-make, how to recognize and continue without allowing the tide of anger or the flight of imagination to arrest or divert the daily effort." That a brilliant man cannot succeed by simply relying on the work of his talents is shown by the continuousness of effort displayed by famous men 011 some cf their works. Gray spent seven years in perfecting his "Elegy" which can be read in seven minutes. Prescott