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... believe that from the time it issues from the coiled and poisonous worm in the distillery until it empties into the hell of death , dishonor , and crime , that it demoralizes everybody that touches it , from its source to where it ends ...
... believe that from the time it issues from the coiled and poisonous worm in the distillery until it empties into the hell of death , dishonor , and crime , that it demoralizes everybody that touches it , from its source to where it ends ...
Page 53
... believe that he is only a little boy , and given nothing to do , is the boy who will do nothing when he grows up . To be successful requires long preparation - it won't do to begin at matur- ity . We hear a great deal of talk about the ...
... believe that he is only a little boy , and given nothing to do , is the boy who will do nothing when he grows up . To be successful requires long preparation - it won't do to begin at matur- ity . We hear a great deal of talk about the ...
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... believe the biggest mistake an employé can make is to deceive himself with the idea that he is simply working for someone else for so much a day . Every employé , whether a ten - thousand - dollar - a - year man or a dollar - a - day ...
... believe the biggest mistake an employé can make is to deceive himself with the idea that he is simply working for someone else for so much a day . Every employé , whether a ten - thousand - dollar - a - year man or a dollar - a - day ...
Page 66
... of time . Gladstone says : Gladstone says : “ Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after - life with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams , and that the waste of 66 READY MONEY.
... of time . Gladstone says : Gladstone says : “ Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after - life with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams , and that the waste of 66 READY MONEY.
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... believe that if every man could control his thoughts and aspirations to such an extent that he would treat everyone with whom he dealt as though he were that one , he would get rich . It's sympathy that counts . It's not the amount of ...
... believe that if every man could control his thoughts and aspirations to such an extent that he would treat everyone with whom he dealt as though he were that one , he would get rich . It's sympathy that counts . It's not the amount of ...
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Page 283 - Mr. President, I have thus stated the reasons of my dissent to the doctrines which have been advanced and maintained. I am conscious of having detained you and the Senate much too long. I was drawn into the debate with no previous deliberation, such as is suited to the discussion of so grave and important a subject.
Page 241 - ... other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British Ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
Page 255 - The man who is employed for wages is as much a business man as his employer; the attorney in a country town is as much a business man as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis; the merchant at the cross-roads store is as much a business man as the merchant of New York...
Page 311 - The new South presents a perfect democracy, the oligarchs leading in the popular movement—a social system, compact and closely knitted, less splendid on the surface, but stronger at the core— a hundred farms for every plantation, fifty homes for every palace— and a diversified industry that meets the complex needs of this complex age.
Page 306 - It is a rare privilege, sir, to have had part, however humble, in this work. Never was nobler duty confided to human hands than the uplifting and upbuilding of the prostrate and bleeding South — misguided, perhaps, but beautiful in her suffering, and honest, brave, and generous always. In the record of her social, industrial, and political illustration we await with confidence the verdict of the world.
Page 312 - In my native town of Athens is a monument that crowns its central hill — a plain, white shaft. Deep cut into its shining side is a name dear to me above the names of men, that of a brave and simple man who died in brave and simple faith. Not for...
Page 35 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 302 - Think of him as ragged, halfstarved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds; having fought to exhaustion, he surrenders his gun, wrings the hands of his comrades in silence, and, lifting his tear-stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot the old Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey.
Page 230 - My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the proposed ignominy of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been laid against me in this court. You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed...
Page 222 - ... and some are talking with wives, and endeavoring with brave words spoken in the old tones to drive from their hearts the awful fear. We see them part. We see the wife standing in the door with the babe in her arms — standing in the sunlight sobbing; at the turn of the road a hand waves; she answers by holding high in her loving hands the child. He is gone, and forever.