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LADS AND AMBITION.I ’ ' . ; ' * . * * v * ’ • 'tj There is hardly a* man, however ; moderate his abilities and energies,| who might not look forward to a | fair share, of human happiness if he j were early taught to conform carefully his conception of life to his j powers, and to seek nothing beyond what, those powers entitle him to look for. And the same is true of women.--Weariness of life in theayoung arises—in so far as.it arises I from causes that are not purely j j moral—chiefly from a great dispro- j ! portion between the kind of career I the young have been taught to ac-j eept, and the kind of career for which they And themselves lit. j There is too. much of the idea that!* 1 r ■ {-i it is goo$l for all lads to be spurred j ! into a sort of ambition, for which j they are by no means suited. A j j life of carefully-limited desire—a life more or less approximating in its reticence and moderateness of aim to that which the old must usu- i• f-ally live, if they are to live happily at j all—need be by no means un unhappy life for a very large number of the young people of our generation, if only they were not so early , taught to look upon ,such a life with | contempt, as if it were no life at all. | In reality it might be a much more j dignified and noble life than the life of fretful competition, and of unsuccessful or half-successful ambition.% ... r ■. *
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Accomac Peninsula Enterprise
Accomac, Virginia, US
Thu, Jun 30, 1881
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