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There are others who ask of money nothing more than that it
should fill the role of purchaser of good, and seek to acquire it merely to
exchange it for wares of much finer worth, the marvels of science and of the
mind,
These, too, are also apostles of perseverance. Their will to live finds its
nourishment in the manifestation of determination, which is an affirmation of
existence.
They know very well that progress of any sort can be produced only by a
multitude of realizations that take place before the final goal is reached, and
they contemplate with composure the duration of an eternal strife for the
conquest of higher things.
To cease fighting is, practically always, to acknowledge that one is beaten.
For some ill-advised people it is to declare themselves satisfied.
But in the heart of the man who is possessed by a persevering will, the desire
of conquest is never extinguished. Inaction appears to him in the light of a
disaster and as a sign of decay.
It must be, in every case, the cessation of all effort in the direction of
progress, and the man who does not advance becomes rapidly outdistanced.
For this reason we always notice that those who are inspired by a laudable
ambition fortify themselves in their ideal, to the extent of being constantly
prepared to transmute their thoughts into acts.
Banishing all irresolution, they will be careful to avoid all sentiments likely
to be hostile to their purpose.
They will leave their opponents behind by their tenacity and will disarm them by
the continuity of their efforts.
Their quiet and methodical perseverance will result in the triumph of right, and
they will impose upon others the authority that self-mastery has conferred upon
themselves.
They will be just as well prepared to develop militant energy as mute and latent
tenacity, which last quality is much more difficult to practice than the first.
Pilled with the dominant idea, which, by the bonds of association, has covered
the entire scope of their lives, they will seek eagerly for everything that can
serve to extend it, to strengthen it, or to defend it in time of need.
They will repulse with determination all that is opposed to it or tends to
alienate them from it.
They will always collect themselves before they act, and will cultivate all the
lines of thought that tend to stimulate their energies and to give rise to the
controlling acts that make possible the achievement of the tasks that necessity
or choice has caused them to undertake.
Those in whom the social spirit dominates the intellectual will learn how to
endure repeated rebuffs without discouragement, never forgetting that from these
successive defeats must one day spring the final victory.
Appetites and individual interests have no power against the slow operation that
changes men's souls and prepares them for a state of life whose ideal
approaches as nearly as may be to the good of all.
But none the less must each and every one of them remember never to cease the
onward march toward their goal, or rather, toward a series of realizations all
subsidiary to the main object in view.
Nevertheless, the more near and the more tangible it becomes, the more will they
strive to set it higher, for the moment they find themselves upon the point of
obtaining it, their desire for progress will urge them to make it nobler and
loftier still.
The life of the people who are really to be envied, whom we may describe with
justice as the happy of this world, is above all else composed of successive
accomplishments, all tending toward the same end--not actual perfection, for
that ceases to exist the moment that we attain to it, since all cessation of
progress is opposed to the essential idea of the search for betterment--but
toward the desire for perfection, which, like perseverance, is one of the keys
by whose aid we can open the gates of fame and fortune.
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