Thoughts that Inspire, Volume 1Personal Help Publishing Company, 1905 |
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... nature , and in his daily walks and labors be able to teach and enlighten the minds of others , thus making life a pleasure to his fellow - man as well as to himself . GEORGE G. WILLIAMS . If I could command the speech of twenty nations ...
... nature , and in his daily walks and labors be able to teach and enlighten the minds of others , thus making life a pleasure to his fellow - man as well as to himself . GEORGE G. WILLIAMS . If I could command the speech of twenty nations ...
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... nature . The early white settlers of Kentucky soon became more than a match for the Indians in everything in which the Indian excelled . They learned to know the forest signs as well as the Indians , or even better ; they became better ...
... nature . The early white settlers of Kentucky soon became more than a match for the Indians in everything in which the Indian excelled . They learned to know the forest signs as well as the Indians , or even better ; they became better ...
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... natural talent . I don't want anything that isn't fair and honest , and I don't want any man to do anything for me that he would not do for some one else under like circumstances and conditions . It is well to be economical , but it is ...
... natural talent . I don't want anything that isn't fair and honest , and I don't want any man to do anything for me that he would not do for some one else under like circumstances and conditions . It is well to be economical , but it is ...
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... those who stand on the hill . Anything may become nature to man : the rare thing is to find a nature that is truly natural . Be clear , explicit and honest in bargains . Be strict in keeping accounts and engagements . Beauty without ( 67 )
... those who stand on the hill . Anything may become nature to man : the rare thing is to find a nature that is truly natural . Be clear , explicit and honest in bargains . Be strict in keeping accounts and engagements . Beauty without ( 67 )
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... Nature is the beginning of everything . Necessity is a cruel nurse , but she raises strong children . No book is worth anything which is not worth much . No man can be true to his country who is not true to himself . No wind can do him ...
... Nature is the beginning of everything . Necessity is a cruel nurse , but she raises strong children . No book is worth anything which is not worth much . No man can be true to his country who is not true to himself . No wind can do him ...
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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
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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...