Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in LifeS. C. Griggs, 1883 - 365 páginas |
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Or, Hints on Success in Life William Mathews. Mathews 357 g YFE From Threm Jostamine . essamme Christmas 1714. 20.
Or, Hints on Success in Life William Mathews. Mathews 357 g YFE From Threm Jostamine . essamme Christmas 1714. 20.
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... success and usefulness the art of " getting on " to the goal of his wishes , — the author will feel himself abundantly repaid for his labors . Doubtless there are many persons who are better qualified by their worldly knowledge to ...
... success and usefulness the art of " getting on " to the goal of his wishes , — the author will feel himself abundantly repaid for his labors . Doubtless there are many persons who are better qualified by their worldly knowledge to ...
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Or, Hints on Success in Life William Mathews. CHAPTER X. DECISION . 127 CHAPTER XI . MANNER 141 CHAPTER XII . BUSINESS HABITS 159 CHAPTER XIII . SELF ... SUCCESS 346 INDEX . 353 GETTING ON IN THE WORLD . CHAPTER I. SUCCESS AND viii CONTENTS .
Or, Hints on Success in Life William Mathews. CHAPTER X. DECISION . 127 CHAPTER XI . MANNER 141 CHAPTER XII . BUSINESS HABITS 159 CHAPTER XIII . SELF ... SUCCESS 346 INDEX . 353 GETTING ON IN THE WORLD . CHAPTER I. SUCCESS AND viii CONTENTS .
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Or, Hints on Success in Life William Mathews. GETTING ON IN THE WORLD . CHAPTER I. SUCCESS AND FAILURE . Let every man be occupied , and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable , and die with the consciousness ...
Or, Hints on Success in Life William Mathews. GETTING ON IN THE WORLD . CHAPTER I. SUCCESS AND FAILURE . Let every man be occupied , and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable , and die with the consciousness ...
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... success , it is not found in failure . It is a sad thing to feel , even when we have done our best , when the stinging sense of time and talents wasted is absent , that we have ... successful lawyer , though he should SUCCESS AND FAILURE . 7.
... success , it is not found in failure . It is a sad thing to feel , even when we have done our best , when the stinging sense of time and talents wasted is absent , that we have ... successful lawyer , though he should SUCCESS AND FAILURE . 7.
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ability acquired attained battle become body brain brilliant calling career character Charles James Fox Charles Lamb circumstances cloth Demosthenes dollars doubt Douglas Jerrold effort eloquence energy England English exhausted faculties fail failure feel force fortune genius give habit hand happiness hard heart Henry Ward Beecher honor human hundred intellectual J. W. Alexander Jeremy Bentham knowledge labor lawyer learning live LL.D look Lord man's Mantua matter means mental merchant mind Molière moral Napoleon nature neglect ness never night once orator palæstra patient persons poet politics poor profession pursuit qualities reserved power result rich Rufus Choate says sermon Sir William Hamilton soul strength struggle success Sydney Smith talent tells things thought thousand tion toil true truth turn victory walk wealth whole write young
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Página 176 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Página 238 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order ; ready, like a steam-engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Página 192 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Página 28 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Página 87 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Página 96 - Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Página 127 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Página 97 - Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these.
Página 11 - Woe waits the insect and the maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace, From infant's play, and man's caprice : The lovely toy so fiercely sought Hath lost its charm by being caught...
Página 105 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.