"THE MAN WHO IS UNBEATABLE

why some people seem to have no opportunities
at all, while others have dozens of them. A
blind man, poor chap, can walk in a garden of
flowers, but he sees nothing. To him the
garden 1s all black.
In the same way, a man who has a passive
brain can walk past a hundred glorious oppor-
tunities and see nothing. The difference 1s in
the people themselves, not in the conditions
that surround them. The same danger of
instant death in battle makes one man a coward
and another man a V.C.

You may take some men and put them in a
valley of diamonds, and they will trample their
way out of the valley, hunting for a pub. They
will go through the whole valley and never get
one diamond. Another man will fall off the
roof into an apple tree, and come down safely
with his pockets full.

Opportunities are not rare. They are every-
where. What is rare is the quick brain and
strong will to make use of them. There is not
one worker in Great Britain who has no
opportunity of promotion or of securing the
special attention of his firm.
There is not one little shop that has not an
opportunity of becoming three times as big
by giving a better service to the public. There

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