Conquering Success: Or, Life in EarnestHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 404 páginas |
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... ready to grasp every opportunity which the future may present . The modes in which men win success are fortunately almost infinitely diversified , though there are certain ruling qualities common to them all . Some men , ordinarily ...
... ready to grasp every opportunity which the future may present . The modes in which men win success are fortunately almost infinitely diversified , though there are certain ruling qualities common to them all . Some men , ordinarily ...
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... ready for them . To such men the doors of success will swing open of themselves at last , as they opened to Thorwaldsen , the sculptor , in the hour of his deep- est despair . Nobody at Rome would buy his statues , and so one day he ...
... ready for them . To such men the doors of success will swing open of themselves at last , as they opened to Thorwaldsen , the sculptor , in the hour of his deep- est despair . Nobody at Rome would buy his statues , and so one day he ...
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... , will one day come to you . Only see to it that you are ready for it when it does come . " The stone that is fit for the wall does not long lie in the ditch . " CHAPTER II LUCK , GOOD AND BAD " An unfortunate SUCCESS IN LIFE 17.
... , will one day come to you . Only see to it that you are ready for it when it does come . " The stone that is fit for the wall does not long lie in the ditch . " CHAPTER II LUCK , GOOD AND BAD " An unfortunate SUCCESS IN LIFE 17.
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... ready to fight . The energy of Frederic the Great was never surpassed . It was most conspicu- ous when he was in the most desperate straits , contend- ing against fearful odds . Though fighting only to de- fend his dominions , he never ...
... ready to fight . The energy of Frederic the Great was never surpassed . It was most conspicu- ous when he was in the most desperate straits , contend- ing against fearful odds . Though fighting only to de- fend his dominions , he never ...
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... ready to volunteer , crying " Lo , here ! " and , " Lo , there ! " but if you adopt their counsel , and come to grief , you will find that they have mysteriously disappeared , or are powerless to help you . 66 Books well chosen are ...
... ready to volunteer , crying " Lo , here ! " and , " Lo , there ! " but if you adopt their counsel , and come to grief , you will find that they have mysteriously disappeared , or are powerless to help you . 66 Books well chosen are ...
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Conquering Success, Or, Life in Earnest William Mathews,Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Términos y frases comunes
ability achieve acquired asked battle become begin bodily brain brilliant calling career character Charles James Napier cheerfulness Cicero Claude Lorraine Daniel Webster defeat dollars earnest effort Emerson eminent energy faculties force fortune genius giant gifts Girondists Goethe habit hand hard heart hundred intellectual Jeremiah Mason JOHN WILLIAM KAYE Julius Cæsar knowledge labor lack lawyer learned Leonardo da Vinci less live look Lord Lord Chatham man's master ment mental mind moral Napoleon nature ness never once one's patience persistence persons poor profession pursuit ready reply Rufus Choate says secret shyness soul spirit spite strength struggle talent tells things Thomas Fowell Buxton thought thousand tion to-day toil triumph true turn University of Cambridge victory vigor waste worldly success writing wrote young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 141 - 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 244 - They have left me the sun and moon, fire and water, a loving wife, and many friends to pity me, and some to relieve me, and I can still discourse : and unless I list they have not taken away my merry countenance and my cheerful spirit and a good conscience.
Página 100 - Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Página 117 - They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system.
Página 270 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Página 89 - Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth ; and I will pardon it.
Página 323 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Página 250 - No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
Página 93 - They have commonly passed the first half of life in the gross darkness of indigent humility — overlooked, mistaken, contemned, by weaker men — -thinking while others slept, reading while others rioted, feeling something within them that told them they should not always be kept down among the dregs \ of. the world; and then, when their time was come, and some little accident has given them their first occasion, they have burst out into the light and glory of public life, rich with the spoils of...
Página 105 - It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances : it did all very well before the Flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication for a hundred and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries...