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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... novel and at- tractive forms , with fresh illustrations , so as to impress persons who have not been impressed before , thoughts which have substantially been repeated from the days of >> Solomon to those of Smiles and " Titcomb .
... novel and at- tractive forms , with fresh illustrations , so as to impress persons who have not been impressed before , thoughts which have substantially been repeated from the days of >> Solomon to those of Smiles and " Titcomb .
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... persons who are better qualified by their worldly knowledge to discuss the subject here considered ; but , unhappily , the most suc- cessful men do not reveal the secret of their successes ; and if we do not reject criticisms on ...
... persons who are better qualified by their worldly knowledge to discuss the subject here considered ; but , unhappily , the most suc- cessful men do not reveal the secret of their successes ; and if we do not reject criticisms on ...
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... persons who reason thus concerning human happiness for- get its true nature . They forget that it does not consist in the gratification of the desires , nor in that freedom from care , that imaginary state of repose , to which most men ...
... persons who reason thus concerning human happiness for- get its true nature . They forget that it does not consist in the gratification of the desires , nor in that freedom from care , that imaginary state of repose , to which most men ...
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... person along awkwardly in his path of life , and expose him to endless mortifications . Philosophy or religion may take the sting out of disappointment ; but gen- erally the impossibility of connecting the ideas of felicity and failure ...
... person along awkwardly in his path of life , and expose him to endless mortifications . Philosophy or religion may take the sting out of disappointment ; but gen- erally the impossibility of connecting the ideas of felicity and failure ...
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... persons who could not present the same result . Shelley , we may infer , hardly exaggerated , when he said that the Almighty had given men arms long enough to reach the stars , if they would only put them out . If the young man will but ...
... persons who could not present the same result . Shelley , we may infer , hardly exaggerated , when he said that the Almighty had given men arms long enough to reach the stars , if they would only put them out . If the young man will but ...
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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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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...