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SOME CAUTIONS AND CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS
73 like failure. But if you hold to your faith you will find that the failure is only
74 apparent.
75 Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will
76 receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure
77 was really a great success.
78 A student of this science had set his mind on making a certain business
79 combination which seemed to him at the time to be very desirable, and he
80 worked for some weeks to bring it about. When the crucial time came, the
81 thing failed in a perfectly inexplicable way; it was as if some unseen
82 influence had been working secretly against him. He was not disappointed;
83 on the contrary, he thanked God that his desire had been overruled, and
84 went steadily on with a grateful mind. In a few weeks an opportunity so
85 much better came his way that he would not have made the first deal on any
86 account; and he saw that a Mind which knew more than he knew had
87 prevented him from losing the greater good by entangling himself with the
88 lesser.
89 That is the way every seeming failure will work out for you, if you keep your
90 faith, hold to your purpose, have gratitude, and do, every day, all that can
91 be done that day, doing each separate act in a successful manner. When you
92 make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough; keep on, and a
93 larger thing then you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember
94 this. You will not fail because you lack the necessary talent to do what you
95 wish to do. If you go on as I have directed, you will develop all the talent
96 that is necessary to the doing of your work.
97 It is not within the scope of this book to deal with the science of cultivating
98 talent; but it is as certain and simple as the process of getting rich.
99 However, do not hesitate or waver for fear that when you come to any
100 certain place you will fail for lack of ability; keep right on, and when you
101 come to that place, the ability will be furnished to you. The same source of
102 Ability which enabled the untaught Lincoln to do the greatest work in
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