Cultivate the Small Fields
GREAT results do not always follow from great opportunities, nor are great opportunities the only road to great results. On the contrary, a small field thoroughly worked over will almost always show a better harvest than a larger field which has only been cultivated in spots and at odd times, as whim or inclination led. "In the corners are the treasures," says the wisdom of the Arabs, and experience proves the truth of the adage. It is not in the great places of common haunt that one must look for undiscovered treasures, but in the dark and sordid caves of the earth, and among the rubbish heaps which men neglect and despise. Cultivate the small fields; be not above sweeping out the corners, if duty requires; in that narrow round of duty you will be more likely to win great results, than if you turned your back upon duty, and sought your work in fields which promise a richer harvest, but whose reaping requires a stronger arm and a steadier will than yours.