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Show WORKER MUST LOVE VOCATION. First Requisite for the Attainment of Success in Any Line. A prime qualification for success in any art, trade or profession is the love of it, though love alone will by no means bring success in it. The love must be reciprocal; that is, the vocation voca-tion must desire its follower, for reasons rea-sons which must remain as much a mystery to him as to any of his witnesses. wit-nesses. "She was love-worthy," says Heine, in treating of a more passional case, "and he loved her; but he was not love-worthy, and she loved him not." The fond youth, university-bred or self-made, may have ever so great a desire for journalism, but journalism journal-ism will have no desire for him, unless un-less he has the peculiar charm for it which commands affection in all cases. He can only prove the fact by trying and by longing to try with a longing that excludes the hope of every. other reward beside the favor of the art he wishes to espouse. Riches, fame, power may be in the event, but they are not to be in the quest. The wish to succeed in it for its own sake must be his first motive, and the sense of success in it must be left to add themselves, them-selves, without his striving for them. So far as he strives for them, they will alloy and dilute his journalistic success. suc-cess. W . D. Howells, in Harper's Magazine. |