Ready MoneyPersonal help publishing Company, 1905 - 305 pages |
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Page 38
... look upon these venerable trees around me and feel I do not dishonor them . The children of future generations may never hear my name , but it gladdens my heart to think that I am now contending for their freedom and all its countless ...
... look upon these venerable trees around me and feel I do not dishonor them . The children of future generations may never hear my name , but it gladdens my heart to think that I am now contending for their freedom and all its countless ...
Page 50
... look the world or the devil right in the eye and say NO ; men through whom the current of everlasting life runs still and deep and strong . " In business and in every walk of life lack of courage keeps thousands in the background ...
... look the world or the devil right in the eye and say NO ; men through whom the current of everlasting life runs still and deep and strong . " In business and in every walk of life lack of courage keeps thousands in the background ...
Page 58
... look up the career of each successful man you will find that he had made a thorough preparation long before the world discovered him and long before he discovered himself . We all know the story of David , who did battle with the giant ...
... look up the career of each successful man you will find that he had made a thorough preparation long before the world discovered him and long before he discovered himself . We all know the story of David , who did battle with the giant ...
Page 85
... Look around . If others are suc- ceeding in that particular business , then you can . If it is a profitable thing to do and a thing you want to do , don't say that you cannot , and don't listen to any of the " it can't be done ...
... Look around . If others are suc- ceeding in that particular business , then you can . If it is a profitable thing to do and a thing you want to do , don't say that you cannot , and don't listen to any of the " it can't be done ...
Page 87
... look on the dark side of their own business and on the bright side of every other business , and so lose heart . Some men have the faculty of see- ing more difficulties than others . The easier it is for a man to see obstacles , the ...
... look on the dark side of their own business and on the bright side of every other business , and so lose heart . Some men have the faculty of see- ing more difficulties than others . The easier it is for a man to see obstacles , the ...
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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.