Thoughts that Inspire, Volume 1Personal Help Publishing Company, 1905 |
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Página 28
... duty in that station of life to which it shall please God to call you . " WILLIAM MATHEWS . Good habits , habits of industry , conscientiousness , thoroughness , method , accu- racy and punctuality , once formed by a young man , are a ...
... duty in that station of life to which it shall please God to call you . " WILLIAM MATHEWS . Good habits , habits of industry , conscientiousness , thoroughness , method , accu- racy and punctuality , once formed by a young man , are a ...
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... banking - house of Rothschild , at his birthplace , Frankfort - on - the - Main . Once started , go ahead . Pay your debts promptly . Spend your time profitably . Consider honor as a sacred duty . Never lie about RULES OF CONDUCT 39.
... banking - house of Rothschild , at his birthplace , Frankfort - on - the - Main . Once started , go ahead . Pay your debts promptly . Spend your time profitably . Consider honor as a sacred duty . Never lie about RULES OF CONDUCT 39.
Página 40
... duty ? To fulfil the claims of the day . We are only really alive when we enjoy the good - will of others . A great mistake - to hold one's self too high and rate one's self too cheap . I should say the happiest man is he who can link ...
... duty ? To fulfil the claims of the day . We are only really alive when we enjoy the good - will of others . A great mistake - to hold one's self too high and rate one's self too cheap . I should say the happiest man is he who can link ...
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... duty done gives music at sunset . Constant occupation prevents temptation . Constancy of purpose is the secret of success . Concentration alone conquers . Genius is intensity . Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge ...
... duty done gives music at sunset . Constant occupation prevents temptation . Constancy of purpose is the secret of success . Concentration alone conquers . Genius is intensity . Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge ...
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... duty is the way of safety and the road to honor . The place of charity , like that of God , is everywhere . The perfection of art is to conceal art . The power to acquire is worth more than the thing gained . The right man in the right ...
... duty is the way of safety and the road to honor . The place of charity , like that of God , is everywhere . The perfection of art is to conceal art . The power to acquire is worth more than the thing gained . The right man in the right ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
A. A. HODGE action beautiful better blessing brave character cheer conquer courage dare deeds diddy-di earth EMERSON everything evil Face the worst faith Fate fear feels fight flowers fool fortune FRANK WALCOTT friends genius GEORGE HORACE LORIMER give Good-by greatest hand happiness heart heaven HENRY VAN DYKE HILLIS honor hope human it's goin J. G. HOLLAND JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY JOAQUIN MILLER Keep a-goin Keep hustling labor laugh liberty life's live Lord LOWELL man's MARDEN matter mind never noble old John Paul one's P. J. BAILEY PHILLIPS BROOKS Resolved rich rise sail secret of success shadow SHAKESPEARE smile song soul speak spirit Sunshine Brigade sweet thee There's THOMAS À KEMPIS thou thought Three things tomorrow true truth virtue wait wisdom wise words worth wrong young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 188 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
Página 182 - LIFE How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!
Página 156 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Página 231 - Build today, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure Shall tomorrow find its place.
Página 147 - If a man write a better book, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door to steal it from him.
Página 65 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Página 239 - GRADATIM. Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God — Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.
Página 175 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 200 - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind, the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said:'' Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?
Página 222 - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best...