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THE GIANT-MAKER
By HERBERT KAUFMAN
Confidence is a giant-maker. Every man is as weak as his will. Failure begins with the loss of Faith.
Difficulties are instantly as great as the belief in them. Imagination builds barriers higher than the Hima
layas. .
A doubter is self-thrashed. Impossibilities are personal opinions. The mind that dwells upon the adverse
chance is soon blinded to anything else. ,
Feasibility is nine-tenths enthusiasm. .
Go to Colorado and learn what persistent effort will do. Stand at the foot of the Grand Canon and remember
how an unswerving stream stuck to an appointed job until it melted that appalling gash through the living rodc;
Nothing can impede force and no force is comparable to thought.
Brave brains are bales of gun-cotton. A big enough idea will topple mountains. .
That mind of yours will furnish howitzer fancies at the call of necessity.
Deeds are the spawn of needs. -What we do not yet possess, we have not urgently required. When "must" speaks "
Nature obeys. '. v
The materials are at your elbow for an inter-ocean railroad or an inter-planet airship system.
Both enterprises will be founded when somebody becomes sufficiently interested to find them.
Gutta-percha answered the summons when Field's imagination called for an Atlantic cable.
Tungsten disclosed its qualities when the world cried for a better incandescent light.
Radium could not hide from the Curie microscope.
The Hertzian waves waited impatiently through the ages for the wireless flash.
Vision is sight off on adventure intuition is judgment without evidence a hunch, the silent advice of one
sense among many which our limited intelligence hasn't been able to locate.
When you feel sure that you're on the right track, follow through. It's the half-way folks who fail.
There's a whetstone on the other side of every disappointment hone your will on it.
Pluck is a self-sharpener. Courage fortifies with exercise.
You can do it. The contrary odds promise all the more for you. If an undertaking is simple, the reward
is cheap. '
We're all alike at the outset, but most of us depreciate into inefficiency because we won't endure the pain that
follows upon the first use of the finer faculties. '
Canadian trappers carry forty-pound loads strapped about their temples; Italian peasant women walk to mar
ket with baskets of fruit balanced on their heads.
Keeping at it builds up strength wherever demanded. ,
You don't know your capacity you won't measure it you quit too quickly. You balk at the price of success
and fortune won't deal with you.
If you would look closer and cease confusing Opportunity with impossibility, she might smile on you.
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Business is a ready giver
When it gets results DELIVER!
Every Third Man Is Responsible for His Own Death
THE species is not approaching decadence at the rate which some alarmists prefer to think. As recently as three years
ago, the feeble-minded persons in the country barely exceeded 1 50,000. There were possibly 200,000 lunatics
and some 50,000 blind folk. Considering a population of a hundred million, heavily proportioned with immi
grants and recalling the follies and indulgences of forebears, nature seems to be a very accurate institution after all she
makes about one error in a hundred attempts.
While we're discussing mortality, did you know that deaths by accident, even in these days of rapid transit, flutter,
flurry and excitement, are still under the 75,000 mark? And to the everlasting glory of surgery, amputation is so ably
managed in this century that the doctor's saw makes a better showing than fish bones in the throat.
One out of every three of us dies from diseases to be escaped by self-control and moderate precaution.
Old age seems to be more a matter of personal desire than we're prone to think. The Adam family is still sound
and sturdy. Life simply asks a reasonable show.
There have been a few men who amassed Wealth by questionable means, but whatever success they met with Was
not due to their underhanded methods so much as unappreciated qualities of strategy and administration, with which they
could have achieved more than accrued through doubtful practices. .
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