Talks to Young Men (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Good authority for the fact that thistles do not evolve figs. Every live kernel, whether botani cal or human, is stamped with its destiny. An acorn can never grow into anything but an oak. I shall have considerable to say before I am through about a young man's power to shape his own future. It is all the more necessary to begin, therefore, by understanding that that is true only within limits. It has ceased to be a current theory that every mother's boy is liable to become President of the United States. All men are not run in the same mold, and a man is handicapped by his mold. It is not likely that Colonel Smith could have become Napoleon, even if he had lived south Of the Channel in the days of the French Revolution. There is a qual ity in some men that is in them before they begin to do anything, and that cannot be earned by perspiration. Putting a buttercup to school will not graduate it a butterfly, even if it is a very good school. Its only wholesome ambition will be to be as good as it can as a buttercup. Born differences are incorrigible and are a good deal in the nature Of fate.

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