Rising in the World: Or, Architects of Fate; a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character Building, Self-culture and Noble AchievementSuccess Company, 1897 - 478 pages |
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... determined to go beyond any other Southern city in the way of a banquet and other manifestations of their good - will and hospitality . They made great preparations for the dinner , the com- mittee taking great pains to have the finest ...
... determined to go beyond any other Southern city in the way of a banquet and other manifestations of their good - will and hospitality . They made great preparations for the dinner , the com- mittee taking great pains to have the finest ...
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... determined to remain loyal to his principles , Thomas More walked cheerfully to the block . His wife called him a fool for staying in a dark , damp , filthy prison when he might have his liberty by merely renouncing his doctrines , as ...
... determined to remain loyal to his principles , Thomas More walked cheerfully to the block . His wife called him a fool for staying in a dark , damp , filthy prison when he might have his liberty by merely renouncing his doctrines , as ...
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... determined there is time and opportunity . - EMERSON . Invincible determination , and a right nature , are the levers that move the world.- PRESIDENT PORTER . In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood there is no ...
... determined there is time and opportunity . - EMERSON . Invincible determination , and a right nature , are the levers that move the world.- PRESIDENT PORTER . In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood there is no ...
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... cause there was no post to bring them . He determined that his customers should not be disappointed . This is the kind of will that finds a way . There is scarcely anything in all biography grander than the 40 ARCHITECTS OF FATE .
... cause there was no post to bring them . He determined that his customers should not be disappointed . This is the kind of will that finds a way . There is scarcely anything in all biography grander than the 40 ARCHITECTS OF FATE .
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... determination with discretion , and support it with knowledge and common sense , or it will only lead us to run our heads against posts . We must not expect to overcome a stub- born fact by a stubborn will . We merely have the right to ...
... determination with discretion , and support it with knowledge and common sense , or it will only lead us to run our heads against posts . We must not expect to overcome a stub- born fact by a stubborn will . We merely have the right to ...
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Page 9 - God, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Page 232 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
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 387 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 263 - 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 9 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 211 - 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 66 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Page 212 - Upon the whole, there was in this man something that could create, subvert, or reform ; an understanding, a spirit, and an eloquence, to summon mankind to society, or to break the bonds of slavery asunder, and to rule the wilderness of free minds with unbounded authority ; something that could establish or overwhelm empire, and strike a blow in the world that should resound through the universe.
Page 121 - 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.