A Definite Chief Aim

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If you will master the next lesson, on Self-confidence, you will then have the faith in yourself to enable you to carry out the instructions laid down for your guidance in this lesson.

Master of human destinies am I!

Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

Cities and fields I walk;

I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace - soon or late I knock,

unbidden, once at every gate!

If sleeping, wake - if feasting, rise before I turn away.

It is the hour of fate,

And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death;

but those who doubt or hesitate,

Condemned to failure,

penury, and woe,

Seek me in vain and uselessly implore.

I answer not,

and I return no more!

INGALLS.

NEGLECTING TO BROADEN THEIR VIEW HAS KEPT SOME MEN DOING ONE THING ALL THEIR LIVES.