I
remember a man of success who meant to break up housekeeping and go to
Europe on a matter of business. This was the first of January. The fact
that the weather suddenly turned cold to the extent of thirty degrees
below zero did not seem to attract his attention. He was absent-minded
on that question! When it came to going out to hire an expressman to
haul his effects to a storehouse he found no one would venture out with
his horse until the thermometer should rise, and his astonishment knew
no bounds! He had been
SO IN THE HABIT OF RIDING OVER OBSTACLES
that his distress was very noticeable when he was compelled to wait in
idleness for three days. Never allow obstacles to stop you. When the
waters meet an obstacle they run around it. So do the ants. Read the
lives of successful men. Watch successful men. "We are less convinced by
what we hear than what we see," said Herodotus thousands of years ago.
Said Seneca, nineteen hundred years ago: "Men trust rather to their eyes
than to their ears; the effect of precepts, is, therefore, slow and
tedious, while that of example is summary and effectual.
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