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One thing alone does not arouse the contempt of these curiously warped people.
The money that is well earned is never despised by anybody.
It is always the indication and the reward of true success.
We are no longer in the days when it was the accepted thing to find genius
languishing on a bed in the hospital.
Talent, in our times, if it is not always rewarded in proportion to its merits,
is nevertheless seldom despised.
Inventors get a certain amount of money, greater or less, as the case may be, in
exchange for their creations.
Artists can sell their work if they have the gift of pleasing the public.
Musicians play their airs in return for much good currency.
In fact, all those whose talent is recognized can live very comfortably by their
gifts or their industry.
There are, it will be said, many persons, who, in spite of the fact that they
possess superior qualities, still remain in obscurity, while those who are by no
means their equals strut about in the pride and glory of their good fortune.
But why do they remain in obscurity?
Because they are modest, some one will answer.
In that case we shall find it quite impossible to weep over their unsuccess.
Modesty should be no part of the equipment of the man who desires to succeed.
When one is thoroughly persuaded with the worth of one's own work one doesn't
waste one's time in lamenting.
Those who do this are the timid, who are quite as incapable of making any
serious resolutions as they are of accomplishing any act of decision.
They lack faith in themselves . . . they are doubtful of their own ability. . .
. Very well! Then why should we believe in them?
If they are so dubious as to their own merits, which they certainly ought to
know pretty thoroughly, why should they complain when they see us following
suit?
If there is one disease more contagious than another it is certainly mistrust of
oneself.
It necessarily involves the entertaining of doubts, since these form themselves
so readily, on the subject of the capacity of other people.
From this cause one is only half inclined to believe the man who speaks with
assurance of his knowledge or of his skill, when one remembers how much every
human being is disposed to judge himself with a partial eye.
How can one have any confidence in the man who, at the outset, acts or speaks in
such a fashion as not to conceal from our view the very low esteem that his
talents have inspired in his own breast?
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