"There be three things which are too wonderful for me; yea, four
which I know not.
"The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon
a rock; THE WAY OF A SHIP IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA, and the way
of a man with a maid."
At sunset a long train of cars waited on a bridge as a sailing
ship passed through the draw.
The ship sailed up the river toward the cold Winter sun; another
ship sailed past it going in the OPPOSITE direction.
Only ONE wind was blowing. Yet, of those two ships blown by
the same wind, moved by the same power, one sailed EAST and
one WEST.
It may be of use to you in your career to think for a few minutes
about these two ships and the lesson which they teach--especially
to young men. ----
The man who has sailed, in his life's journey, toward failure and
disaster looks always with envy, sometimes with hatred, and very
often with an intense sensation of injustice, at the man who
passes him going in exactly the opposite direction.
Yet the FORCES that move men bound toward success are exactly
the same as those that move other men to failure, humiliation and
defeat.
It is all a question of the way in which you use the forces
within you--just as on shipboard it is all a question of the use
of the common wind which blows.