Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in LifeS. C. Griggs, 1883 - 365 страници |
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... circumstances , with equal advantages of culture , equal incentives , and as firm a will , there are few persons who could not present the same result . Shelley , we may infer , hardly exaggerated , when he said that the Almighty had ...
... circumstances , with equal advantages of culture , equal incentives , and as firm a will , there are few persons who could not present the same result . Shelley , we may infer , hardly exaggerated , when he said that the Almighty had ...
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... circumstances , attain success , and even fill a large space in society . The high reputation of many per- sons is acquired in a great measure by mere dexterity and cun- ning , by siding with prevailing opinions , or by flattering the ...
... circumstances , attain success , and even fill a large space in society . The high reputation of many per- sons is acquired in a great measure by mere dexterity and cun- ning , by siding with prevailing opinions , or by flattering the ...
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... circumstances or luck ? There are some persons who proverbi- ally never get on in the world , whom Fortune seems to perse- cute with unrelenting cruelty from the cradle to the grave . If they were born rich , they contrive to become ...
... circumstances or luck ? There are some persons who proverbi- ally never get on in the world , whom Fortune seems to perse- cute with unrelenting cruelty from the cradle to the grave . If they were born rich , they contrive to become ...
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... circumstances , " and com- placently regarding himself as the victim of ill - luck . Go visit the incarcerated criminal , who has imbrued his hands in the blood of his fellow - man , or who is guilty of less heinous crimes , and you ...
... circumstances , " and com- placently regarding himself as the victim of ill - luck . Go visit the incarcerated criminal , who has imbrued his hands in the blood of his fellow - man , or who is guilty of less heinous crimes , and you ...
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... circumstances were actually against us , but that by our own stern resolve and heroic energy we crushed our way through them . In cases like this , we act very much like the English sailor in Joe Miller . Falling from the ship's topmast ...
... circumstances were actually against us , but that by our own stern resolve and heroic energy we crushed our way through them . In cases like this , we act very much like the English sailor in Joe Miller . Falling from the ship's topmast ...
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Страница 176 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Страница 238 - 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 28 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 127 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.