Adverse circumstances

Adverse circumstances created by physical handicaps or diseases made several persons work hard. Demosthenes was stammered, but by constant practice he was able to become to greatest orator in ancient Greece. Fitted with two artificial legs Douglas Bader not only learned to walk again, but taught himself to swim, dance and play tennis. Helen Keller became famous, though she become blind and deaf at the age of two. “It is highly probable” says Dale Carnegie, “that Milton wrote better poetry because he was blind and Beethoven composed better music because he was deaf.