Show Be Original Do not bo afraid of being original even eccentric Be an Independent self relinnt new man not Just ono more Individual In the world Do nOl bo a copy of your grandfather of your father or of your neighbor That Is as toollsh as for a violet to try to be like a rose or for a daisy to apo a sunflower Nature has given each a peculiar equipment for Its purpose pur-pose Every man Is born to do r certain cer-tain work In an original way If ho tries to copy some other man or to I do somo other mans work ho will DOan DO-an abortion a misfit a failure Do not Imitate oven your heroes Scores of young clergymen attempted to make their reputations by Imitating Imitat-ing Beecher They copied his voice and conversation and Imitated his gestures and his habits but they fell ns far short of tho great mans power as the chromo falls short of the masterpiece mas-terpiece Where are thoso hundreds of Imitators now Not one of them has ever made any stir In tho world Success |