Getting on in the World; Or, Hints on Success in LifeCosimo, Inc., 01/12/2005 - 376 páginas It is true that not a few men kill themselves by overwork; but the proportion of such is small to the number who die from violating the laws of health; and death from excessive activity is far preferable to death from rust. The spirits may be exhausted by employment, but they are utterly destroyed by idleness.-from "Choice of a Profession"William Mathews may have been the perfect 19th-century source for advice on personal achievement: in his long, busy life; he was a successful lawyer, newspaper publisher, university professor, and journalist. This collection of essays on making one's way in the world began as an 1871 series of articles for the Chicago Tribune that were reconsidered and expanded for this 1872 book. Mathews shares his still pertinent wisdom on such success-minded topics as: .the concept of luck, and how it is abused.why concentration and focus are key.the importance of maintaining physical health.how to cultivate self-reliance.why originality is vital to success.the necessity of practical talent and knowledge.being economical with your time.being smart about money.and much more.American writer WILLIAM MATHEWS (1818-1909) also wrote Words, Their Use and Abuse (1876), Hours with Men and Books (1877), and Monday-Chats (1877). |
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... genius and fire as that thun- dering Jupiter of the orchestra , the leader ; but , alas ! he plays second fiddle . The world is an orchestra , and men are players . All of us are playing some part in the production of life's harmony ...
... genius and fire as that thun- dering Jupiter of the orchestra , the leader ; but , alas ! he plays second fiddle . The world is an orchestra , and men are players . All of us are playing some part in the production of life's harmony ...
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... genius and taste into his work , while a lawyer may cobble ; these writers are contin- ually pointing to the Herschels and the Stevensons , the Astors and the Angelos , and telling the young that they , too , may shine as stars in the ...
... genius and taste into his work , while a lawyer may cobble ; these writers are contin- ually pointing to the Herschels and the Stevensons , the Astors and the Angelos , and telling the young that they , too , may shine as stars in the ...
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... genius ; that continuity and concentration of thought are in exact proportion to the size and vitality of the thinking principle . What a man does is the real test of what a man is ; and to talk of what great things one would accom ...
... genius ; that continuity and concentration of thought are in exact proportion to the size and vitality of the thinking principle . What a man does is the real test of what a man is ; and to talk of what great things one would accom ...
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... genius is but patient labor . But though genius is essentially active , and will labor , though not always by square rule and compass , it is the falsest of notions that will can do the work of intellect , that effort can supply genius ...
... genius is but patient labor . But though genius is essentially active , and will labor , though not always by square rule and compass , it is the falsest of notions that will can do the work of intellect , that effort can supply genius ...
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... genius were written , not to immortalize their authors , but to provide for some practical need . Homer sang ... genius in him . Senator Yates well observed in a speech , that the genius of General Grant " is not ostentatious nor ...
... genius were written , not to immortalize their authors , but to provide for some practical need . Homer sang ... genius in him . Senator Yates well observed in a speech , that the genius of General Grant " is not ostentatious nor ...
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CHAPTER VI | 83 |
CHAPTER VII | 97 |
CHAPTER VIII | 107 |
CHAPTER XII | 159 |
CHAPTER XIII | 178 |
CHAPTER XIV | 188 |
CHAPTER XV | 221 |
CHAPTER XVI | 238 |
CHAPTER XVII | 268 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 280 |
CHAPTER XIX | 304 |
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ability acquired attained battle become body brain brilliant calling career character Charles James Fox Charles Lamb circumstances dollars doubt Douglas Jerrold effort energy England exhausted faculties fail failure feel force fortune genius give Goethe habit hand happiness hard heart Henry Ward Beecher honor human hundred intellectual J. W. Alexander Jeremy Bentham Julius Cæsar knowledge labor lack lawyer learning leisure live look Lord man's Mantua matter means mental merchant mind Molière moral Napoleon nature neglect ness never night once orator 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 vigor walk wealth whole write young
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Página 193 - 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 239 - 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 106 - 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.
Página 97 - 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 135 - Are there not, Festus, are there not. dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver, One — when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge, One — when, a prince, he rises with his pearl ? Festus, I plunge ! Fest.
Página 67 - There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
Página 122 - Talent makes the world wonder that it gets on no faster, tact excites astonishment that it gets on so fast ; and the secret is, that it has no weight to carry; it makes no false steps...