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【T1】Many of us who think we are poor are rich in opportunities, if we could only see them, in possibilities all about us, in fac
【T1】Many of us who think we are poor are rich in opportunities, if we could only see them, in possibilities all about us, in fac
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【T1】
Many of us who think we are poor are rich in opportunities, if we could only see them, in possibilities all about us
, in faculties worth more than diamond bracelets. In our large Eastern cites it has been found that at least ninety-four out of every hundred found their first fortune at home, or near at hand, and in meeting common everyday wants.【T2】
It is a sorry day for a young man who cannot see any opportunities where he is, but thinks he can do better somewhere else.
Some Brazilian shepherds organized a party to go to California to dig gold, and took along a handful of translucent pebbles to play checkers with on the voyage. After arriving in San Francisco, and after they had thrown most of the pebbles away, they discovered that they were diamonds.【T3】
They hastened back to Brazil, only to find that the mines from which the pebbles had been gathered had been taken up by other prospectors and sold to the government.
The richest gold and silver mine in Nevada was sold by the owner for $42, to get money to pay his passage to other mines, where he thought he could get rich.【T4】
Professor Agassiz once told the Harvard students of a farmer who owned a farm of hundreds of acres of unprofitable woods and rocks, and concluded to sell out and get into a more profitable business.
He decided to go into the coal-oil business; he studied coal measures and coal-oil deposits, and experimented for a long time. He sold his farm for $200, and engaged in his new business two hundred miles away.【T5】
Only a short time after, the man who bought his farm discovered upon it a great flood of coal-oil, which the farmer had previously ignorantly tried to drain off.
(From Opportunities Where You Are)
【T1】
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我们当中有很多人认为自己机会很少,但其实机会很多。关键在于我们能够在身边诸多潜在的机会发现它们。
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