An address delivered to the students at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on Monday, October 3rd, 1864 / by George W. Callender.

  • Callender, George Washington, 1792-1864.
Date:
1864
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Credit: An address delivered to the students at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on Monday, October 3rd, 1864 / by George W. Callender. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    possible, and even then all yonr perseverance will be required to enable you to master it; and if you wander, or if you fail to keep pace with the esta¬ blished order, you will soon find yourselves hope¬ lessly in the rear. As perseverance, however, is a term of general significance, and implies the pursuit of an object irrespective of the good or evil which may ultimately result from it, industry, honest industry, should rather be your watchword. Set down in the very beginning your resolve to be faithful to it, for without it there is no hope of success or of future distinction. If you ask me how to acquire industry, I tell you that it results from the self-control and self-discipline of which I have spoken. Some bend more easily to the measures which in youth evolve it, and we hear of studious, diligent children, but all such are none the less trained to industry, for by nature we do not incline to it, but by every ingenuity avoid and escape from it. Besides example and precept, the influences which beyond all others prompt us to be industrious are the sense of duty and the prospect of reward. What the world calls love of w^ork is that which labours for its reward in the satisfaction of possessing the riches of intellect, without view to ulterior results; still, all such honest work will bring its recompense: it is, indeed, in chief measure, the prospect of reward, it matters not wdiat, that occasions and proves true the saying that talent springs from the ranks of the poor. None the less