increase capable
contribute pass
by the more
impoverish distinction hammer
fortune paradox as
place It is one of the 1 of civilization that the more opportunities are utilized, 2 new ones are thereby created. New openings are
as easy to find 3 ever to those who do
their best, although it is not so easy as formerly to obtain great 4 in the old lines, be cause the standard has
advanced so much, and competition has so greatly 5
. "The world is no longer day" said Emerson, "but rather iron in
the hands of its workers, and men have got to 6
out a place for themselves by steady and rugged blows."
Thousands of men have made fortunes out of trifles which others 7 . As the bee gets honey from the same flower
from which the spider gets poison, so some men will get a
8 out of the commonest and meanest things, as scraps of
leather, cotton waste, slag, iron filings, from which others get only poverty
and failure. There is scarcely a thing which 9
to the welfare and comfort of humanity, scarcely an article of
household furniture, a kitchen utensil, an article of clothing or of food, that
is not 10 of an improvement in which
there may be a fortune.