Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in LifeS. C. Griggs, 1883 - 365 Seiten |
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... , stamping his feet , wagging his head , nodding earnestly to the right and to the left , and beating time with mad energy , he enters heart and 1 soul into the music , oblivious of all things else CHAPTER I SUCCESS AND FAILURE.
... , stamping his feet , wagging his head , nodding earnestly to the right and to the left , and beating time with mad energy , he enters heart and 1 soul into the music , oblivious of all things else CHAPTER I SUCCESS AND FAILURE.
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... things else ; and all because he is the leader , and plays the first violin . Standing by his side , but upon a lower platform , and before a lower music - rest , is a patient , careworn man , who saws quietly on the strings , with the ...
... things else ; and all because he is the leader , and plays the first violin . Standing by his side , but upon a lower platform , and before a lower music - rest , is a patient , careworn man , who saws quietly on the strings , with the ...
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... thing is quite certain , and that is , that if happiness is not found in 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 ...
... thing is quite certain , and that is , that if happiness is not found in 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 ...
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... things as Newton . Give a dog the muscular strength , the physical qualities of the lion , and he will be as ... thing was ever done by great effort ; a great thing can be done only by a great man , and he does it without effort ...
... things as Newton . Give a dog the muscular strength , the physical qualities of the lion , and he will be as ... thing was ever done by great effort ; a great thing can be done only by a great man , and he does it without effort ...
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... things that God meant him to do , and will be his best . No agonies , nor heart - rendings , will enable him to do any better ! If he be a great man , they will be great things ; if he is a small man , small things ; but always , if ...
... things that God meant him to do , and will be his best . No agonies , nor heart - rendings , will enable him to do any better ! If he be a great man , they will be great things ; if he is a small man , small things ; but always , if ...
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ability acquired attained battle become body brain brilliant calling career character Charles James Fox Charles Lamb circumstances cloth dollars doubt Douglas Jerrold effort energy England English exhausted faculties fail failure feel force fortune genius give habit hand happiness hard heart Henry Ward Beecher honor human hundred illustrated intellectual J. W. Alexander Jeremy Bentham knowledge labor lawyer learning live 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 WILLIAM MATHEWS words write young
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Seite 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...
Seite 173 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 238 - ... 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 127 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Seite 5 - 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...
Seite 335 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.