The Royal Path of Life: Or, Aims and Aids to Success and HappinessSouth Western Publishing House, 1881 - 600 pages |
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... fortune ; and a poor business many of them make of it . Oftentimes they lose their way ; and when they do not , they find so many hills and valleys , so many swells and depressions , so many ris ings and fallings , so many ups and downs ...
... fortune ; and a poor business many of them make of it . Oftentimes they lose their way ; and when they do not , they find so many hills and valleys , so many swells and depressions , so many ris ings and fallings , so many ups and downs ...
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... fortune , for space in the world's thought , and dominion over his fellow - men . But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections . The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice ...
... fortune , for space in the world's thought , and dominion over his fellow - men . But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections . The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice ...
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... fortune , to take root in the world , and to shoot up into such a height , and spread his branches so wide , that we who first planted him may ourselves find com- fort and shelter under his shadow . Much of our early gladness vanishes ...
... fortune , to take root in the world , and to shoot up into such a height , and spread his branches so wide , that we who first planted him may ourselves find com- fort and shelter under his shadow . Much of our early gladness vanishes ...
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... fortune ; you may have your carriage , and plate , and servants , and pageantry ; but rather the shielding and the crust of bread with a good conscience , than the stately dwelling or palace without it . Rather than the marble mausoleum ...
... fortune ; you may have your carriage , and plate , and servants , and pageantry ; but rather the shielding and the crust of bread with a good conscience , than the stately dwelling or palace without it . Rather than the marble mausoleum ...
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... fortune at forty , without fame or fortune always , " is the sentiment of many , oftener expressed by the saying , that if a man is not rich at forty , he never will be . It was after forty that Sir Walter Scott became the great unknown ...
... fortune at forty , without fame or fortune always , " is the sentiment of many , oftener expressed by the saying , that if a man is not rich at forty , he never will be . It was after forty that Sir Walter Scott became the great unknown ...
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Page 300 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 193 - 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.
Page 532 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 559 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Page 538 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 519 - ... then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action, will come thronging back upon thy memory and knocking dolefully at thy soul — then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowing and repentant on the grave, and utter the unheard groan, and pour the unavailing tear ; more deep, more bitter, because unheard and unavailing.
Page 115 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
Page 519 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...
Page 343 - Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart.
Page 518 - If it has its woes, it has likewise its delights ; and when the overwhelming burst of grief is calmed into the gentle tear of recollection ; when the sudden anguish and the convulsive agony over the present ruins of all that we most loved, is softened away into pensive meditation on all that it was in the days of its loveliness — who would root out such a sorrow from the heart...