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The danger of missing connections, which they have not worked out
carefully, will keep them in a constant state of anxiety that will deprive them
of all freedom to enjoy themselves. Failure to provide themselves with
necessaries will cause them continual trouble, and the slenderness of their
resources, which may threaten to give out before the end of the journey, may
render it necessary for them to cut short their trip long before they intended.
Others again, unable to resist the attraction of places they have seen from a
distance, will allow themselves to be drawn from their prearranged line of
travel to observe these localities at close range.
In this way they will lose a great deal of valuable time and will run the risk
of being led entirely astray.
The worst of it is that these apparently attractive places do not always fulfill
one's expectations and so one loses time on one's trip without receiving any
compensating advantage.
It is under such circumstances that people who lack perseverance, in place of
forcing themselves to return to their original plan of travel without again
attempting to wander from it, begin to wander about aimlessly, imagining, at
each new horizon that confronts them, that they have made a marvelous find
because of the enchanting colors in which distance clothes it to their eyes.
Others, endowed with a less vivid imagination, will travel forward quite
regardless of these tempting mirages, but will give up in despair when they
encounter the slightest obstacle.
The least fatigue tires them out completely, and they are at once ready to
return home and to give up the project whose execution seems to them to be a
matter involving altogether too great a complexity of effort.
It may be said with perfect truth of such people that, when they reach home,
they will find similar causes for discouragement in the accomplishment of little
every-day acts, the doing of which they will put off as long as they possibly
can.
The man who is always able to make excuses for himself will by so doing deprive
himself of the power that hope will give him in his next endeavor to succeed.
The will to persevere must be the center around which revolve all the qualities
that are needed for the conquest of this virtue.
It most certainly is a virtue. The word is by no means too strong a one, since,
well under- stood, perseverance is made up of the combination of a thousand
qualities that we have been taught to admire.
Let us hasten to add that these qualities, in the struggle for life, are, as
occasion demands, both weapons of offense and arms for defense.
They serve us to combat all the faults that are the enemies of sincerity and of
success.
They attack these faults, batter down breaches in their defenses, and keep on
the fight against them until they are destroyed root and branch.
They also constitute the shield that protects us from the mortal wounds that are
aimed at our fairest hopes by the faults which hinder us from the practice of
perseverance.
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