Rising in the World, Or Architects of FateCosimo, Inc., 2006 M04 1 - 552 pages Nothing is so fascinating to a youth with high purpose, life, and energy throbbing in his young blood as stories of men and women who have brought great things to pass. Those these themes are as old as the human race, yet they are ever new, and more interesting to the young than any fiction." -from the Author's PrefaceAn exceptional bestseller when it was first published in 1895 and greatly anticipated by the general public following the author's success with his runaway hit, Pushing to the Front, Vols. 1 & 2, this is a classic of personal motivation that remains startlingly relevant today. For those who aim through concrete example to live the "higher life," this captivating volume includes: Dare! The Will and The Way Success Under Difficulties Uses of Obstacles One Unwavering Aim Clear Grit Wealth in Economy Opportunities Where You Are Vocations, Good and Bad Power of the Mind over the Body The Curse of Idleness and much more.ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSIMO CLASSICS: Marden's Cheerfulness as a Life Power, Pushing to the Front Vols. 1 & 2. |
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... dollars to get the service of a pilot who demanded his money in advance . His sloop passed into the Delaware just in time to avoid capture by a British war vessel . He sold the sloop and cargo in Philadelphia , and began business on the ...
... dollars to get the service of a pilot who demanded his money in advance . His sloop passed into the Delaware just in time to avoid capture by a British war vessel . He sold the sloop and cargo in Philadelphia , and began business on the ...
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... dollars by buying his cargo of cheese in another port than that in which he had been instructed to buy , Girard was so enraged , al- though he was several thousand dollars richer , that he discharged the captain on the spot ...
... dollars by buying his cargo of cheese in another port than that in which he had been instructed to buy , Girard was so enraged , al- though he was several thousand dollars richer , that he discharged the captain on the spot ...
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... dollars within forty- eight hours you may keep the horse . " The innkeeper asked the reason for this novel propo- sition , and learned that the lad's father had contracted to get the cargo of a vessel stranded near Sandy Hook , and take ...
... dollars within forty- eight hours you may keep the horse . " The innkeeper asked the reason for this novel propo- sition , and learned that the lad's father had contracted to get the cargo of a vessel stranded near Sandy Hook , and take ...
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... dollars to buy a boat , having imbibed a strong liking for the sea ; " on the twenty - seventh of this month you will be sixteen years old . If , by that time , you will plow , harrow , and plant with corn the eight- acre lot , I will ...
... dollars to buy a boat , having imbibed a strong liking for the sea ; " on the twenty - seventh of this month you will be sixteen years old . If , by that time , you will plow , harrow , and plant with corn the eight- acre lot , I will ...
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... dollars . Seeing that steam - vessels would soon win supremacy over those carrying sails only , he gave up his fine business to become the captain of a steamboat at one thousand dollars a year . For twelve years he ran between New York ...
... dollars . Seeing that steam - vessels would soon win supremacy over those carrying sails only , he gave up his fine business to become the captain of a steamboat at one thousand dollars a year . For twelve years he ran between New York ...
Contents
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ONE UNWAVERING AIM | 107 |
SOWING AND REAPING | 125 |
What is put into the first of life is put into the whole of life | 141 |
OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE | 256 |
THE MIGHT OF LITTLE THINGS | 268 |
SELFMASTERY | 288 |
NATURES LITTLE BILL | 306 |
VOCATIONS GOOD ANd Bad | 327 |
THE MAN WITH AN IDEA | 343 |
DECISION | 358 |
POWER OF THE MIND OVER THE BODY | 370 |
SELFHELP | 145 |
WORK AND WAIT | 167 |
CLEAR GRIT | 186 |
THE GRANDEST THING IN THE WORLD | 202 |
WEALTH IN ECONOMY | 227 |
Hunger rags cold hard work contempt suspicion unjust | 238 |
THE CHARITIES | 390 |
THE CURSE OF IDLENESS | 410 |
OUR SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS | 421 |
BOOKS | 430 |
EVERY MAN HIS OWN PARADISE | 448 |
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Page 123 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Page 4 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 213 - The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty, and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence that he conspired to remove him, in order to be relieved from his superiority.
Page 98 - I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake.
Page 465 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Page 188 - he said, ' on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south.
Page 265 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 98 - The gods, in bounty, work up storms about us, That give mankind occasion to exert Their hidden strength, and throw out into practice Virtues, which shun the day, and lie conceal'd In the smooth seasons and the calms of life.