Thoughts that Inspire, Volume 1Personal Help Publishing Company, 1905 |
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... matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance . H. M. FIELD . Everybody finds out , sooner or later , that all success worth having is founded on Christian rules of conduct . J. G. HOLLAND . The secret ...
... matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance . H. M. FIELD . Everybody finds out , sooner or later , that all success worth having is founded on Christian rules of conduct . J. G. HOLLAND . The secret ...
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... matter so trifling as not to deserve notice . Never give out that which does not first come in . Labor , then , to the last moment of your existence . Study in your course of life to do the greatest amount of good . Let the greatest ...
... matter so trifling as not to deserve notice . Never give out that which does not first come in . Labor , then , to the last moment of your existence . Study in your course of life to do the greatest amount of good . Let the greatest ...
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... matter to handle even congested contro- versies , where the spirit of the parties is right and honest . The trouble with a great many men is , they don't appreciate their predicament until they get into the quicksand . When you are ...
... matter to handle even congested contro- versies , where the spirit of the parties is right and honest . The trouble with a great many men is , they don't appreciate their predicament until they get into the quicksand . When you are ...
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... matter of genealogy . I will always risk a man if he is in the dark and knows it , but I haven't much use for a man who is groping around in the dark and doesn't know it . No general can fight his battles alone . He must depend upon his ...
... matter of genealogy . I will always risk a man if he is in the dark and knows it , but I haven't much use for a man who is groping around in the dark and doesn't know it . No general can fight his battles alone . He must depend upon his ...
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... matter how distasteful they may be , a man should never eulogize and qualify them , but simply go at cross - lots , and not stop to curl his mustache . THE SEVEN WISE MEN OF GREECE . They lived during 54 THOUGHTS THAT INSPIRE.
... matter how distasteful they may be , a man should never eulogize and qualify them , but simply go at cross - lots , and not stop to curl his mustache . THE SEVEN WISE MEN OF GREECE . They lived during 54 THOUGHTS THAT INSPIRE.
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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...