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... Sunset - Page 401902Full view - About this book
| 1909 - 738 pages
...soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate ! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before 7 turn away. It is the hour of fate. And they who follow...uselessly implore ; I answer not, and I return no more ! To some, however, this doctrine seemed to favour fatalism. Opportunity, they said, comes often to... | |
| New York (State). Board of Charities - 1910 - 1154 pages
...every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Commend to Failure, Penury and Woe, Seek me in vain, and uselessly implore — I answer not, and I return no more! Another type of tramp, who has my sympathy in large measure, is he who has been honest in his efforts... | |
| 1908 - 812 pages
...Nothing of the poet's voice remains with me in the flesh so distinctly as Senator Ingalls' "Opportunity." "Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love and fortune...uselessly implore. I answer not and I return no more !" This feature of Nature has been likened to a door that suddenly opens, and as suddenly closes. But... | |
| Henry Wilson Scott - 1891 - 864 pages
...sonnet, published in Truth, entitled " Opportunity," has traveled the world over; is admired by all: " Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love and fortune...uselessly implore — I answer not, and I return no more !" He describes his poor white neighbors in Missouri as follows : " A more inviting field for the utilitarian... | |
| 1901 - 590 pages
...emphatically. "That's my trade; I'ma mule driver, that's what I am." — Tit-Bits. OPPORTUNITY.Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love, and fortune...uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return — no more ! — JOHN J. INGALLS in Saturday Evening Post. AT THE JUDGMENT BAR ! — St. Peter: "And who are you... | |
| 1891 - 514 pages
...is the hour of fate — And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer eveiy foe Save death. But those who doubt or hesitate* Condemned...uselessly implore — I answer not, and I return no more ! — Jno. J. Inga fr. THE sample bottle of N'ulrolactis sent me proved more than satisfactory. Case... | |
| John Roy Musick - 1893 - 518 pages
...penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unhidden once at every gate ! If sleeping, wake ; if feasting,...uselessly implore ; I answer not, and I return no more. — INGALLS THE field' marshal of Now France, thc Marquis De Montcalm, had no sooner arrived at Quebec... | |
| 1914 - 368 pages
...BOTTOMLY, '89 Opportunity is a matter of preparedness; Responsibility is the trust imposed by Opportunity. "Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love and fortune...uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more!" "When your committee of arrangements asked me to talk at this reception to our friend, the Governor,... | |
| John Roy Musick - 1895 - 516 pages
...remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate 1 If sleeping, wake ; if feasting, rise before I turn...uselessly implore ; I answer not, and I return no more. — INOALLS THE field marshal of New France, the Marquis De Montcalm, had no sooner arrived at Quebec... | |
| 1898 - 880 pages
...parliamentary pluck." — Fortnightly Review. OPPORTUNITY. BY JOHN J. INGALLS. MASTER of human destinies and I; Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities...uselessly implore, I answer not and I return no more. 270 1898. THE CAPTURE OF HAVANA BY ENGLAND, 1762. THE CAPTURE OF HAVANA BY ENGLAND, 1762. "BY JOHN... | |
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