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... soon overtakes him . Drive thy business ! Let not thy business drive thee ! Diligence is the mother of good luck . Now I have a sheep and a cow , Everybody bids me good morrow . The eye of the master will do more work than both his ...
... soon overtakes him . Drive thy business ! Let not thy business drive thee ! Diligence is the mother of good luck . Now I have a sheep and a cow , Everybody bids me good morrow . The eye of the master will do more work than both his ...
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... soon become acquainted with each and every one . The former has been the case with most of you , while the latter has been my case , and the infor- mation I have gathered for the past thirty years will be worth thousands of dollars to ...
... soon become acquainted with each and every one . The former has been the case with most of you , while the latter has been my case , and the infor- mation I have gathered for the past thirty years will be worth thousands of dollars to ...
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... soon the central street was this Of a renowned metropolis . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf . Each day a hundred thousand rout Followed the zigzag calf about ; And o'er this crooked journey went The ...
... soon the central street was this Of a renowned metropolis . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf . Each day a hundred thousand rout Followed the zigzag calf about ; And o'er this crooked journey went The ...
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... soon run short of funds . This country has thousands of smooth people who are everlast- ingly borrowing , but seldom do they ever return the amount loaned . One of those clever fellows once rushed into a country bank , all out of breath ...
... soon run short of funds . This country has thousands of smooth people who are everlast- ingly borrowing , but seldom do they ever return the amount loaned . One of those clever fellows once rushed into a country bank , all out of breath ...
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... soon enable him to fill the double store with cheap merchandise . Some time , when busi- ness is bad and he is overstocked , he sells out in a lump sum to an insurance company and starts again , with a fresher stock in a better location ...
... soon enable him to fill the double store with cheap merchandise . Some time , when busi- ness is bad and he is overstocked , he sells out in a lump sum to an insurance company and starts again , with a fresher stock in a better location ...
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A Pound of Brains: Thirty Years' Observation of Horse Sense (1908) George M. Fadner No preview available - 2008 |
A Pound of Brains: Thirty Years' Observation of Horse Sense (1908) George M. Fadner No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 411 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 15 - I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 15 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 83 - Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait; Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock, unbidden, once at every gate. If sleeping, wake. If feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 34 - For men are prone to go it blind Along the calf-paths of the mind, And work away from sun to sun To do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, And out and in, and forth and back, And still their devious course pursue. To keep the path that others do.
Page 16 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 412 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 33 - Since then two hundred years have fled, And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise bell-wether sheep Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep. And drew the flock behind him, too, As good bell-wethers always do.
Page 18 - If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing...
Page 411 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife...