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It may be that I should have written it : " How forty men have succeeded." I cannot, nor can any man, give positive rules whereby, if you follow them, an assured success can be guaranteed. Suc- cess depends upon the man and not upon the rule; we find no great mills propelled by the water of Niagara 'River that is diverted and run through sewers ; but run it through great tunnels and water-wheels, and you will get the power for giving life to the machinery of a city. Give to an imbecile a hundre...d dollars for purposes of investment, and we look for no 58 HOW TO SUCCEED. great returns in profit. An ignoramus can take a fine steam-lathe and with it he will work out absurdities and failures. Intelligence and consecration must be behind principles, how- ever good ; rules, however many. Principles are the backbone of character; but a backbone must have some sort of a foundation, and ribs themselves are no good if they have to be tied on. So we continue to make our researches into these eminently successful lives, feeling all the time, and all the same, that what we find and what we deduce cannot and will not be regarded in the light of a cure-all or a save- all ; but if I notice forty arrows all flying toward one point, it is safe for me to assume that at that point there is some kind of a tar- get ; if forty birds are winging their way to one field, I am sure that there is something there for them to eat ; and if the trend of certain forty lives hits point-blank upon success, then pardon me if I say that a man is a fool to persist in taking any other course.
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