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mission 25 Cents. »Homely PhilosophyTHE WINNER.Paradoxical as it may appear the winner is not always the best man. Often, among those who failed is one outstripping in many respects the laureled winner. What was wrong? Discouraged probably, his foot slipped perhaps and he felt the race lost; hut wae. it? Something stopped him. he: gave up, and then said to his pride, 1 “I don’t care!” But does he?Often a promising youth Is taken from school because of illness or poverty at home, and then when he may return, he will not—-why? A foolish pridp, immediate and shortsighted as the philosophy of youth generaJly employs; and so, boys less nobly endowed with brain and brawn are crowned as winners on graduating day; they face life with one handicap the less. While the boy who has lost! usually drifts down stream balming his pride with I dont care.”Occasionally, the truly heroic character Is not with Who seems to batten on defeat he is the \bloody but unbowed” spirit—to him the cap is ever raised! But generally, too generally, defeat crushes, hides the sun and chokes ambition, unless one make an immediate and right about turn before hie has drifted on to the breakers.(Remember, tiro winner is not always the best man. Did you start out to win? What stopped you? What restrains you? Pride? You know you have it 1n you to win! Prove it!—GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON.
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Richmond Planet
Richmond, Virginia, US
Sat, Apr 26, 1924
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