Ready MoneyPersonal help publishing Company, 1905 - 305 pages |
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Page 31
... energy and reserve power that will some day make him famous . Men do not all discover themselves at the same age . Some of our successful men didn't know themselves when they were thirty- five . Think of " Golden Rule " Jones . " At ...
... energy and reserve power that will some day make him famous . Men do not all discover themselves at the same age . Some of our successful men didn't know themselves when they were thirty- five . Think of " Golden Rule " Jones . " At ...
Page 33
... would be ours if we would but appropriate the enthusiasm , the courage , the energy , and the zeal that the great men of every age have left as a blessed heritage to mankind . Think of the 3 ( 33 ) Invincible Determination Courage.
... would be ours if we would but appropriate the enthusiasm , the courage , the energy , and the zeal that the great men of every age have left as a blessed heritage to mankind . Think of the 3 ( 33 ) Invincible Determination Courage.
Page 44
... energy in dodging a tobacco breath instead of being free to listen to the man's proposition . The time to cure the tobacco habit is before the habit has been formed . The time in which every evil habit should be cured , whether it be ...
... energy in dodging a tobacco breath instead of being free to listen to the man's proposition . The time to cure the tobacco habit is before the habit has been formed . The time in which every evil habit should be cured , whether it be ...
Page 67
... lightning - like speed of a fast train , the elegance and comfort of a parlor car , and the energy and enthusiasm it seems to generate that inspires one to do his best . Think , too , of the time that might be DOING THINGS WHEN NOT BUSY 67.
... lightning - like speed of a fast train , the elegance and comfort of a parlor car , and the energy and enthusiasm it seems to generate that inspires one to do his best . Think , too , of the time that might be DOING THINGS WHEN NOT BUSY 67.
Page 73
... energy into his work finds that it is the other half that counts . The one who knows only half the things about his business finds that all the profits are in the other half . The one who only half tries , no matter what he is doing ...
... energy into his work finds that it is the other half that counts . The one who knows only half the things about his business finds that all the profits are in the other half . The one who only half tries , no matter what he is doing ...
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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.