Thoughts that Inspire, Volume 1Personal Help Publishing Company, 1905 |
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Page 95
... time being necessary to discover greater talents . " Good - breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least . - ADDISON . Good cheer is no hinderance to a good life . A THOUSAND BITS OF WISDOM 95.
... time being necessary to discover greater talents . " Good - breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least . - ADDISON . Good cheer is no hinderance to a good life . A THOUSAND BITS OF WISDOM 95.
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Good cheer is no hinderance to a good life . - ARTIPPUS . Good counsels observed are chains of grace . - Fuller . Good humor makes all things tolerable . - BEECHER . Good name , in man and woman , dear my lord , is the immediate jewel ...
Good cheer is no hinderance to a good life . - ARTIPPUS . Good counsels observed are chains of grace . - Fuller . Good humor makes all things tolerable . - BEECHER . Good name , in man and woman , dear my lord , is the immediate jewel ...
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... cheer- fulness . - AUERBACH . It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today . - JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE . It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united . - GOETHE . It seems that ...
... cheer- fulness . - AUERBACH . It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today . - JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE . It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united . - GOETHE . It seems that ...
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... cheer : " Let the world wag on , there is blessing here . " Oh , we need them all on life's upward grade , The beautiful folks of the Sunshine Brigade ! The flag , the flag of the Sunshine Brigade ! It is woven of light that the ...
... cheer : " Let the world wag on , there is blessing here . " Oh , we need them all on life's upward grade , The beautiful folks of the Sunshine Brigade ! The flag , the flag of the Sunshine Brigade ! It is woven of light that the ...
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... cheers That the world denies when a coward cries , To give to the man who bravely tries . And you'll win success with a little song- If you'll sing the song as you go along ! If you'll sing a song as you trudge along , You'll see that ...
... cheers That the world denies when a coward cries , To give to the man who bravely tries . And you'll win success with a little song- If you'll sing the song as you go along ! If you'll sing a song as you trudge along , You'll see that ...
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A. A. HODGE action beautiful better blessing brave character cheer conquer courage dare deeds diddy-di earth EMERSON everything evil Face the worst faith Fate fear feels fight flowers fool fortune FRANK WALCOTT friends genius GEORGE HORACE LORIMER give Good-by greatest hand happiness heart heaven HENRY VAN DYKE HILLIS honor hope human it's goin J. G. HOLLAND JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY JOAQUIN MILLER Keep a-goin Keep hustling labor laugh liberty life's live Lord LOWELL man's MARDEN matter mind never noble old John Paul one's P. J. BAILEY PHILLIPS BROOKS Resolved rich rise sail secret of success shadow SHAKESPEARE smile song soul speak spirit Sunshine Brigade sweet thee There's THOMAS À KEMPIS thou thought Three things tomorrow true truth virtue wait wisdom wise words worth wrong young
Popular passages
Page 188 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
Page 182 - LIFE How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!
Page 156 - 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 231 - Build today, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure Shall tomorrow find its place.
Page 147 - If a man write a better book, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door to steal it from him.
Page 65 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 239 - GRADATIM. Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God — Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.
Page 175 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 200 - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind, the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said:'' Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?
Page 222 - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best...