 | Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 pages
...longer I live, the more I am certain, Secret of that the great difference between men, between uccessthe feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant...determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances,... | |
 | Andrew Somerville - 1874 - 408 pages
...Thomas Fowell Buxton, the successor of Wilberforce as the advocate of slave emancipation, said : ' The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no circumstances,... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1874 - 320 pages
...power of the will. A man who resolves to succeed will succeed. As my poor friend Caxton used to say, ' The longer I live the more I am certain that the great...determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.' And he was right. A man endowed with that quality will do anything that can be done in the... | |
 | Lucius Alonzo Butterfield - 1874 - 36 pages
...space, Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. MEDIUM. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible-determination. QUICK. All the little boys and girls, With rosy checks and flaxen curls,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1874 - 396 pages
...than we suppose, and the latter far more." 12. " The longer I live," says one of earth's noble sons, " the more I am certain that the great difference between...great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible 5 determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory ! " That quality will do anything... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 376 pages
...talent as in energy." " The longer I live," says another competent judge, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, " the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination, an honest purpose once fixed, and... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 386 pages
...talent as in energy." " The longer I live," says another competent judge, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, " the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible . determination, an honest purpose once iixed, and... | |
 | John Lemley - 1875 - 412 pages
...but be reminded of the words of Sir Fowell Buxton, and find myself compelled to subscribe to them : "The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in the world, and no talents, no circumstances,... | |
 | John Brookes (F.G.S.) - 1875 - 152 pages
...trifling, dawdling, twaddling creature ! The finest words Sir Fowell Buxton ever uttered were these : — " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory ! That quality will do anything that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no circumstances,... | |
 | John Murdoch - 1875 - 366 pages
...will. The following remarks of Buxton should be deeply impressed upon the mind of every young man : " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...DETERMINATION — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done in this world ; — and no talent*, no circumstances,... | |
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The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality... 
