How to Succeed: Or, Stepping Stones to Fame and FortuneChristian herald, 1896 - 332 páginas |
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... carrying a quantity of water from the pump behind the block around to the entrance in front , and then up two ... carry papers , wait on the editor , in fact I led the life of a genuine printer's devil ; but when I showed them at ...
... carrying a quantity of water from the pump behind the block around to the entrance in front , and then up two ... carry papers , wait on the editor , in fact I led the life of a genuine printer's devil ; but when I showed them at ...
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... carry the gymnasium away with him , but he carries the skill and muscle which give him his reputation . The lessons ... carry away the Greek and Latin text - books , the geometry and algebra into your occupations any more than the ...
... carry the gymnasium away with him , but he carries the skill and muscle which give him his reputation . The lessons ... carry away the Greek and Latin text - books , the geometry and algebra into your occupations any more than the ...
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... carry his purpose . He chopped wood , built the fire in his little church in Lawrenceburg , Ind . , of only eighteen members , cleaned the lamps , swept the floor and washed the windows . He built the How to Succeed . 121.
... carry his purpose . He chopped wood , built the fire in his little church in Lawrenceburg , Ind . , of only eighteen members , cleaned the lamps , swept the floor and washed the windows . He built the How to Succeed . 121.
Página 122
... carry home . Murillo filled the margin of his school - book with drawings . Dryden read Polybius before he was ten years old . Le Brum , when a boy , drew with a piece of charcoal on the walls of the house . Pope wrote excellent verses ...
... carry home . Murillo filled the margin of his school - book with drawings . Dryden read Polybius before he was ten years old . Le Brum , when a boy , drew with a piece of charcoal on the walls of the house . Pope wrote excellent verses ...
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... carrying to the roof . The poor lad was so thirsty for books that he would borrow from booksellers who would loan them to him out of pity , read them and return them . The Youth's Companion says that Mr. Edison in his new biography ...
... carrying to the roof . The poor lad was so thirsty for books that he would borrow from booksellers who would loan them to him out of pity , read them and return them . The Youth's Companion says that Mr. Edison in his new biography ...
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Página 317 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Página 229 - O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.
Página 53 - In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house, with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Página 191 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Página 149 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Página 317 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 49 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Página 104 - I pierce its order; I dissipate its fear ; I dispose of it within the circuit of my expanding life. So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake.
Página 267 - He is of necessity a miserable and useless man ; and he is so, even though he be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day.
Página 58 - 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.