"He will do little.

Is there one who will conquer?
That kind of a man never fails." "Circumstances," says Milton, "have rarely favored famous men.

They have fought their way to triumph through all sorts of opposing obstacles." "We have a half belief," said Emerson, "that the person is possible who can counterpoise all other persons.

We believe that there may be a man _who is a match for events_,--one who never found his match,--against whom other men being dashed are broken,--one who can give you any odds and beat you." The simple truth is that a will strong enough to keep a man continually striving for things not wholly beyond his powers will carry him in time very far toward his chosen goal.
At nineteen Bayard Taylor walked to Philadelphia, thirty miles, to find a publisher for fifteen of his poems.

He wanted to see them printed in a book; but no publisher would undertake it.