Pushing to the Front, Volume 1Success Company's branch offices, 1911 - 824 pages |
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Page 83
... persons — students , —di- rectly connected with Harvard University , " writes a graduate , " five hundred are students entirely or al- most entirely dependent upon their own resources . They are not a poverty - stricken lot , however ...
... persons — students , —di- rectly connected with Harvard University , " writes a graduate , " five hundred are students entirely or al- most entirely dependent upon their own resources . They are not a poverty - stricken lot , however ...
Page 96
... persons , would seem immeasurably greater , but with this difference : that first success was essential ; without it I could not have gone on . The others I could have done without , if it had been necessary . " For two years young ...
... persons , would seem immeasurably greater , but with this difference : that first success was essential ; without it I could not have gone on . The others I could have done without , if it had been necessary . " For two years young ...
Page 110
... person is supposed to know . This assurance of knowledge multiplies self - confidence and gives infinite satisfaction . In other words , a liberal education makes a man . think a little more of himself , feel a little surer of him- self ...
... person is supposed to know . This assurance of knowledge multiplies self - confidence and gives infinite satisfaction . In other words , a liberal education makes a man . think a little more of himself , feel a little surer of him- self ...
Page 132
... person has a special adaptation for his own peculiar part in life . A very few — geniuses , we call them — have this marked in an unusual degree , and very early in life . Madame de Staël was engrossed in political philos- ophy at an ...
... person has a special adaptation for his own peculiar part in life . A very few — geniuses , we call them — have this marked in an unusual degree , and very early in life . Madame de Staël was engrossed in political philos- ophy at an ...
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... persons residing in cities or than those engaged in other occupations . Aside from the purer air , the outdoor exercise , both conducive to a good appetite and sound sleep , which comparatively few in cities enjoy , they are free from ...
... persons residing in cities or than those engaged in other occupations . Aside from the purer air , the outdoor exercise , both conducive to a good appetite and sound sleep , which comparatively few in cities enjoy , they are free from ...
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Page 18 - 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 12 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 462 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Page 509 - For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe, the horse was lost, For want of a horse, the rider was lost, For want of a rider, the battle was lost.
Page 344 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 509 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Page 453 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust. Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just. Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside. Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified. And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 762 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Page 366 - Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard, and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving.
Page 252 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.