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<h2> DO NOT SCATTER YOUR POWERS </h2>
<p>Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you
succeed, or until your experience shows that you should abandon it. A
constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so
that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on
one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value,
which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different
subjects at once. Many a fortune has slipped through a man's fingers
because he was engaged in too many occupations at a time. There is good
sense in the old caution against having too many irons in the fire at
once.</p>
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