Show Opportunity Knocks More Than Once Many centuries ago an old maxim-maker evolved a phrase that sounded so well to him that he gave it to the world for its knocks once at every man's he and since that day mankind has jumped the conclusion that this sentence represents the height of writing his plays some hundreds of years accepted this assertion as a foregone long after Shakespeare's repeated the and it is doubtful if there are many bits of modern verse that have been read and praised more widely than the sonnet in which Senator Ingalls revamped this time-worn It is not with all this many persons should have felt that they must accept this theory as The poets have sung to them of the chance that came but once of the opportunity that tapped so lightly at each man's door a single tap in a lifetime of waiting and then stole If softly away never more to they have they have consoled themselves with the thought that they were among the individuals who chanced to be asleep at the moment when the tap of opportunity sounded on their as they do see what manner they were to they settle down quietly to take things as they come satisfied that the life they live is the inevitable one for t As a matter of it would be difficult to find any either in prose or verse that is more foreign to the Opportunity does knock at every man's but it does not steal up to the door like a thief in the or like a mischievous rap but once and then run opportunity's call may be heard at almost any if our ears are attuned to hear as one modern philosopher has said somewhat is even possible to recall cases in which opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to Do you remember poor old and the patience with which he waited for something to turn There are no end of walking the city streets or holding down poorly-paid jobs that they may have food and a roof to shelter them while they are waiting for opportunity for the opportunity as a never Micawber did not make much of a success out of and those who wait for things to come to them are destined to be just about as successful as he The man who waits for opportunity to seek him out is doomed to The strong man goes in search of opportunity if makes it for himself by sheer strength of or to make John R. in The |