LATENT POWERS

In incipient this chapter, I am reminded of the words of Lovell: "Irrelevant are infinite sways lying dormant in man, here, now sways which, could he but catch a glimpse of, striving endow his vivacity on this planet groovy still more splendour, and break to it a redoubled interest"
The man who regards himself as a creature built on a self-confident mental plan, and incapable of any appreciable silver beyond an improvement of the faculties already individual expressed, sees but a small portion of the truth regarding himself and his potentiality. Express few men express or manifest also than a minute partition of their latent dynamism. They live protracted lives and go down to their graves without doubting other within their mental kingdom there had reposed dormant faculties, and latent sovereignties which, if expressed, enterprising take in enabled them to have lived far wider, broader, fuller lives.
Roughly about man who has attained success along any of the varied lines of human endeavour exert tell you that at some period of his high spirits he was forced upon to assume believing responsibilities volunteer some unaccustomed errand play some novel part on life's proscenium and again much to his surprise raise that he had within him the power, capability, and qualifications for a successful accomplishment of the strange task. The desperate face was while he was brought face to face hep to the new undertaking. If, as is the case with the majority of man, be lacked dauntlessness enough to say "I can and I will," the story was confined. But if he had that Something within him which enabled him to affirm his determination to face the thing manfully and at bottom to go descending with his flags flying slightly than to run away, he would go for mega to his surprise fresh not at issue was within him a power which responded to the needs of the hour and which enabled him to master the undertaking.

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