Ready MoneyPersonal help publishing Company, 1905 - 305 pages |
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... Half - doing Things Being Businesslike He Can - But Will He ? Right Thinking as a Business - getter Why People Fail at First Making up One's Mind · Doing a Big Business on a Small Margin Nerve Make the Most of It . Confidence Failure ...
... Half - doing Things Being Businesslike He Can - But Will He ? Right Thinking as a Business - getter Why People Fail at First Making up One's Mind · Doing a Big Business on a Small Margin Nerve Make the Most of It . Confidence Failure ...
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... half the battle . A start toward usefulness is one that man never yet made in vain . Every man and every genius in all his- tory started before he could do the thing . We learn by doing , and we learn in no other way . Napoleon ...
... half the battle . A start toward usefulness is one that man never yet made in vain . Every man and every genius in all his- tory started before he could do the thing . We learn by doing , and we learn in no other way . Napoleon ...
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... half what he ought to be worth . Had he gone in at the other man's price he would have devel- oped . At the end of five years he would have drawn a handsome salary . If a man is never to old to learn he is never too old to get started ...
... half what he ought to be worth . Had he gone in at the other man's price he would have devel- oped . At the end of five years he would have drawn a handsome salary . If a man is never to old to learn he is never too old to get started ...
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... half the time , and at fifty cents a day at that . There were a good many men in those States who knew what it was to walk along the railroad track or the dusty road for a week at a time before they could get work at any price . In ...
... half the time , and at fifty cents a day at that . There were a good many men in those States who knew what it was to walk along the railroad track or the dusty road for a week at a time before they could get work at any price . In ...
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... half so hard as it seems . It's not necessary to change occupa- tions or professions . Success is there . All it needs is to be started and it will go around the world and climb above the stars . There are no impossibilities . There are ...
... half so hard as it seems . It's not necessary to change occupa- tions or professions . Success is there . All it needs is to be started and it will go around the world and climb above the stars . There are no impossibilities . There are ...
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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.