The Strategy of Life: A Book for Boys and Young MenFleming H. Revell Company, 1920 - 156 pages |
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... sense of the word , is wholly commendable ; but ambition ruth- lessly pursued and directed to the single object of making wealth spells the destruction of a man's finest qualities . For ambition men will- " Wade through slaughter to a ...
... sense of the word , is wholly commendable ; but ambition ruth- lessly pursued and directed to the single object of making wealth spells the destruction of a man's finest qualities . For ambition men will- " Wade through slaughter to a ...
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... sense of duty . Johnson talked , or rather thundered forth , on most subjects , but he never said very much about duty . He simply did it - did it at all cost . I am not sure that he was a wholly happy man ; but , as Mr. Augustine ...
... sense of duty . Johnson talked , or rather thundered forth , on most subjects , but he never said very much about duty . He simply did it - did it at all cost . I am not sure that he was a wholly happy man ; but , as Mr. Augustine ...
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... sense of usefulness in life is just as real . Whatever may be a man's function in life- whether he is an architect , a doctor , a farmer , a lawyer , a clerk , a miner , or a manual laborer - he is an asset to the commonwealth and a ...
... sense of usefulness in life is just as real . Whatever may be a man's function in life- whether he is an architect , a doctor , a farmer , a lawyer , a clerk , a miner , or a manual laborer - he is an asset to the commonwealth and a ...
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... sense of duty , and a full recognition of the usefulness of such work , can keep such workers alive to the necessity of conscientiousness . When a man has schooled himself to regard monotonous duties , not as task work for a livelihood ...
... sense of duty , and a full recognition of the usefulness of such work , can keep such workers alive to the necessity of conscientiousness . When a man has schooled himself to regard monotonous duties , not as task work for a livelihood ...
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... sense of useful work dutifully done . Into the mouth of Stradivarius , George Eliot puts the remark that " it would be purgatory to make violins ill " When any man holds ' Twixt chin and hand a violin of mine , He will be glad that ...
... sense of useful work dutifully done . Into the mouth of Stradivarius , George Eliot puts the remark that " it would be purgatory to make violins ill " When any man holds ' Twixt chin and hand a violin of mine , He will be glad that ...
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Page 52 - And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings— nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute...
Page 102 - Careless seems the great Avenger ; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 41 - It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
Page 51 - OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Page 23 - Twixt chin and hand a violin of mine, He will be glad that Stradivari lived, Made violins, and made them of the best. The masters only know whose work is good: They will choose mine, and while God gives them skill I give them instruments to play upon, God choosing me to help Him.
Page 54 - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 141 - Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God : But only he who sees, takes off his shoes...
Page 99 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think : They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Page 55 - It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner.
Page 152 - IT is easy enough to be pleasant When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.