Law of Success (21st Century Edition)

184 THE PRINCIPLES OF SELF-MASTERY

What more could be said on this subject?
You have been shown what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and why
you should do it. If you will master the next lesson, on Self-Confidence,
you will then have the faith in yourself to enable you to carry out the
instructions laid down for your guidance in this lesson.

Master oj human destinies am If

Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate

Deserts and seas remote, and passing by

Hovel and mart and palace-soon or late

I knock, unbidden, once at every gate!

If sleeping, wake-if feasting, rise bifore

I turn away. It is the hour oj fate,

And they who follow me reach every state

Mortals desire, and conquer every foe

Save death; but those who doubt or heSitate,

Condemned to failure, penury, and woe,

Seek me in vain and uselessly implore.

I answer not, and I return no more!

-JOHN J. INGALLS