Napoleon Hill
The writer of this passage, which appears in the Bible, understood a
great law which but few of today understand. Believe in people if you
would have them believe in you. Kill off SUSPICION. If you do not it
will kill you off.
If you would have power, cultivate FAITH in mankind!
EGOTISM thrives where SUSPICION exists. Interest yourself in
others and you will be too busy to indulge in self-love.
Observe those around you who begin every sentence with the personal pronoun, "I," and you will notice that they are suspicious of other people. The man who can forget himself while engaging in useful service to other people is never cursed with SUSPICION. Study those about you who are both SUSPICIOUS and EGOTISTICAL and see how many of this type you can name who are successful in whatever work they may be engaged in. And, while making this study of OTHERS, study, also, yourself!
Be sure that you are not bound down by EGOTISM and SUSPICION. Bringing up the rear of this deadly group of riders you see two horsemen: One is JEALOUSY and the name of the other has been purposely omitted. Each reader of this article may take inventory of himself and give the seventh rider a name that fits whatever he finds in his own mind.
Some will name this rider DISHONESTY. Others will name it PROCRASTINATION. A few will have the courage to name it UNCONTROLLED SEX DESIRE. As for you, name it whatever you please, but be sure to give it a name. Perhaps your own imagination will supply an appropriate name as a fellow-traveler for JEALOUSY.
You will be better prepared to give the unnamed rider a name if you know that JEALOUSY is a form of insanity!
Facts are sometimes
cruel things to face. It is a fact that JEALOUSY is a form of insanity,
known to the medical fraternity as "dementia praecox."
"O jealousy,
Thou ugliest fiend of hell! Thy deadly venom Preys on my
vitals, turns the healthful hue
Of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness,
And drinks my spirit up!"
You will notice that JEALOUSY rides just back of SUSPICION.
Some who read this will say that JEALOUSY and SUSPICION should have ridden side by side, as one often leads to the other in man's mind. JEALOUSY is the most common form of insanity.