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Show The Highest Success. No man ever succeeded in life who made a god of success. It is a great thing to "win out," to "get there," to achieve, but it isn't the greatest thing. The highest measure of a man is not success, but faithfulness. The highest aim in life is not to come out a winner, win-ner, but to be faithful to the end. It Is not so much what a man does as how he behaves in trying to do it. If he is faithful to himself, his God. his country, his fellow men; if he would rather be right than be president; if he is faithful to his highest impulses; If he utterly refuses to sacrifice a principle, prin-ciple, or a friend, or even an enemy, that he may gain his end, it is not a great matter whether he achieves or not. He has succeeded in being a man If he has not succeeded in his undertakings. under-takings. A man may succeed, and be a great failure. A man may fail and be a great success. Moses failed to reach the promised land, but nobody cals Moses a failure. Nero succeeded in having his own way, but nobody calls Nero a success. Men have tried' to be President, and have succeeded, and Rone down to their graves not as America's greatest successes. |