Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1917 — Hold to Your Dreams. [ARTICLE]

Hold to Your Dreams.

Isn’t It possible that the only thing which makes it possible for us to perform the dally drudgeries of life is the hope for better things which blooms in our hearts? Hope is romance? Ambition is romance! All the fine, true inspirations of life are romantic. Romance leads to achievement, unless it blossoms in the mind of a lazy, shiftless creature who is incapable of action. The man who leads a forlorn hope is romantic. The hero who gives his life fighting a dread disease to which he succumbs, but against which he has Insured hu- ’ manity, is romantic. Romance is the thing which makes it worth while for men to sacrifice material comforts and die on strange fields of honor. In a materialistic world where we have to deal with the facts of earning our livings and fighting for place and position, the thing which lifts us above blind instinct is romance. Cherish your dreams, for they give you a glimpse of beauty and make you willing to struggle over cruel mountains and harsh plains to the pot of gold at the rainbow’s end. Dreams give respite from dreary reality and urge on to all that is big and fine. — Exchange.