Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1882 — Dickens’ System. [ARTICLE]

Dickens’ System.

The auth r of “David Copperfield” said: “Many men have worked much harder and not succeeded half so well; but 1 never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence; without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels. My meaning simply is that, whatever I have tried to do in my life, I* have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted my-

self to I have devoted myself to completely; that in great, aims and In small I have been thoroughly ill. earnest, I have heVet believed- it pbssible that any natural or improved ability can claim immunity from the companionship of the steady, plain, hard-working qualities, and hope to gain its end. (Some happy talent and some fortunate opportunity may form the two sides of the ladd r on which some men may mount; but the rounds of that ladder mtist be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent and sincere earnestness. Never to put my hand on anything on which I could not throw my whole self; and never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was, I find now to have been my golden rules.”