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Happy people are
more than willing to arrest the march of time and demand nothing of the future,
of which they feel no sort of fear.
Here then we have acquired one piece of information.
Next, what does one always ask of fate?
Happiness, of course.
Under what forms?
There are two of these which include all the rest.
First: Good fortune, which embraces glory and fame as well as wealth.
Second: Sentiment, under various personifications.
With a little observation and some experience, one can very soon learn whether
the person consulting one belongs in the category of the ambitious or the
sentimental.
The age of the person; if a woman, her wearing or not wearing a ring; the nature
of the questions asked; the personal appearance of the questioner--all these
are valuable indications.
The mere sight of dirty shoes, if the weather has been bad, will indicate
straitened circumstances or avarice.
A coat that is polished by use at the elbows and has shiny cuffs will indicate
the worker in an office--or the better appearance of the cuffs will show with
equal clearness that a pair of supplementary cuffs have been used to preserve
those of the coat.
It is unnecessary to go any further into these subtleties of observation that
certain writers of detective stories have popularized. We are simply anxious to
prove that foresight can be exercised quite easily, if it is helped out by the
practice of a minute observation of details.
One talks of miracles when these predictions, founded upon the most careful
deductions, come to pass, as they nearly always do. One may be sure that the men
who make them are more than particular not to undeceive their simple-minded
dupes by explaining to them their methods of procedure.
But if, in place of making this skill in observation the servant of a triumphant
charlatanism, one were to develop it to the advantage of the realities of
existence, one could, in the majority of instances, obtain a real success in
life by means of the deductive power which has enabled one to foresee what would
happen.
In order to exercise this faculty of prevision, it will be a very easy matter to
form, after the most patient observation, certain judgments of which we can
easily watch the outcome.
It is, of course, undeniable that the most accurate predictions may be brought
to naught by one of those accidents which occur spontaneously through the
cropping up of some quite unforeseen difficulty.
It is under such circumstances that perseverance comes into play by aiding us to
overcome the difficulties occasioned by such occurrences, and by giving us the
endurance and the patience that are required in order to be able to combat them
effectually.
Perseverance is composed both of a series of definite actions and also of
long-deferred expectations, and those last are often much more difficult to
endure than actual reverses of fortune.
The man who sets himself to acquire perseverance must arm himself against the
impatience that is always born of forced inactivity in the face of opposing
circumstances.
There are, however, cases in which the best tactics consist in stirring up a
mute energy, ready to proclaim itself the moment the need arrives for it, but
strong enough to be able to conceal itself completely, rather than to indulge in
unreasonable resistance.
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