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er-like work and unceasing application, as the great fundamental requirement of happi- »—
ness and success. The idler has always been, and will ever remain, the great 1 I I
thank malcontent in the world’s civilization, and it is only the busy and industrious I ‘
which man who has the remotest chance at real happiness. To have preached this   ·
f love gospel, and to have practiced it, at least, in some degree, I regard as the greatest  
wymju contribution that I have been able to make to the world`s progress and advance-   i
ment in the humble sphere, in which I have worked and lived. In fact, I have {
s your come to realize that in this toilsome world of real things, we haven’t much time  
fetime, for pictures or for signs or symbols of any kind. The result is, that but few I
id wav such, will stand the test of time. V\’hat we are seeking, therefore, is the I
tv. i substance—the real thing——not the shadow—no matter how beautifully the latter I
V may be portrayed. It is obvious, therefore, that it is only a few generations of   `
young men and women who will remember me at all, and that those that do, A
mer hl will not do so, by reason of this portrait, or for any likeness, other than the one ,
ome to which they carry in their hearts—the mental picture which, all unconsciously, . I
some- they have painted for themselves. —
young] "And so, I trust, too, that I shall always have the good sense to realize I
Qraham that, for most people, at least, this portrait will be merely a portrait of a .
~d with rather sedate—looking, middle—aged man, with nothing of the romantic about it-  
, kindly with nothing to distinguish it from many other of like kind and character. It is
proven well that this is so. The great Dean Swift is accredited with having said in
" apprc- substance: ‘Do your stunt before the spot light graciously, wittily, and as best .
end, of you may—but for God`s sake, pass on.’ And so, it is just as well that most of us
aughter pass on, to give place to on-coming generations of young men and women, all
ait, and eagerly crowding forward-—the hope of youth in their hearts and faces-eagerly I
had to awaiting their turn to their places in the sun.
en good "I should be strangely devoid of those finer qualities of human sentiment
. in my and affection, however, were I not touched and gratified by this outward and
or their visible expression of your affection for me. Indeed, if we are sufficiently honest ,
uy Tim, with ourselves, we like to think that those things which have been associated ,
with us and which, in some manner, and after some fashion, have formed a part  
·e thatl of our lives, will in some way become dear to other people, and perhaps, even
v of mt, hold some measure of interest, to the world at large. Since the remotest ·
ad as Ii~ antiquity, even good men, and gentle and kindly men, have struggled for the
ml vvhgtr Crown or the laurel wreath, and for fame and honor and remembrance, in  
{ physie many instances, they found these things--like the golden apples of Hesperides—to  
aver air} turn to ashes in their tired hands. I
llommi, Looks Ixro FUrL‘R1·:.  
mgm (Ii “The best therefore that I might hoie for—and even this is onlv an idle  
work. ’ ’ ( °   . . ' I
fancy of the hour—begotten of the OCC(lSlOl't—1S, that in the after years, some ,
young boy may stand before the canvass, seeking vainly to fathom the hidden  
Ou Or ,, mysteries of life—to penetrate the haze that separates l1im from his yesterdays.  
V to lwi; I "F0r such a one, if such a one there be—I would be glad it it might hold for
  of hm; 111111 it challenge and an inspiration——a challenge to accept life as he Finds it, with-  
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