Success in Life: A Book for Young MenT. Nelson, 1858 - 332 páginas |
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... honour able and useful pursuits may prove of such avail to many readers , that the following chapters have been written , in illustration of success in life . But , above all , this book is designed to show , that the elevated ...
... honour able and useful pursuits may prove of such avail to many readers , that the following chapters have been written , in illustration of success in life . But , above all , this book is designed to show , that the elevated ...
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... honour , consigns to him the wealth of a whole flotilla , and sleeps in the confidence that it is safe . It is indeed an animating thought , amid the gloom of this world's depravity , when we behold the credit which one man puts in ...
... honour , consigns to him the wealth of a whole flotilla , and sleeps in the confidence that it is safe . It is indeed an animating thought , amid the gloom of this world's depravity , when we behold the credit which one man puts in ...
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... honour , as part of that interior furniture which he has put into his bosom , and who surrounded him with the theatre on which he has come forward , with the finest and most illustrious displays of it ; and who set the whole machinery ...
... honour , as part of that interior furniture which he has put into his bosom , and who surrounded him with the theatre on which he has come forward , with the finest and most illustrious displays of it ; and who set the whole machinery ...
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... honours of the institution , and the respect of his teachers . He now entered the house of a merchant , to prepare for a business life . At first , his new occupation was by no means pleasant . The change from books and studies to busy ...
... honours of the institution , and the respect of his teachers . He now entered the house of a merchant , to prepare for a business life . At first , his new occupation was by no means pleasant . The change from books and studies to busy ...
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... honoured by a public monument . The husband of the Queen heads the subscription . Num- bers throughout the land , of ... honour that the first and greatest nation in the world has it in its power to pay to science , to arms , to genius ...
... honoured by a public monument . The husband of the Queen heads the subscription . Num- bers throughout the land , of ... honour that the first and greatest nation in the world has it in its power to pay to science , to arms , to genius ...
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Página 180 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Página 315 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Página 313 - Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.
Página 62 - Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try : Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. 4 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air ; His watchword at the gates of death ; He enters heaven with prayer. 5 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry—
Página 42 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Página 81 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Página 86 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Página 18 - as I have no means of knowing what is best to be done, I will be guided by the luck which shall attend this spider. If the insect shall make another effort to fix its thread, and shall be successful, I will venture a seventh time to try my fortune in Scotland ; but if the spider shall fail I will go to the wars in Palestine, and never return to my native country more.
Página 105 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 315 - TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.