Ready MoneyPersonal help publishing Company, 1905 - 305 pages |
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... stand erect in the strength of your own vigorous manhood , and resolve with all the power in your being that there will be one more light , one more guide - post , one more successful man ; that , if someone has to fail , that someone ...
... stand erect in the strength of your own vigorous manhood , and resolve with all the power in your being that there will be one more light , one more guide - post , one more successful man ; that , if someone has to fail , that someone ...
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... standing on the bank shivering in- stead of jumping in and becoming warm by their own activity in the water . Thousands never start because they are afraid they can- not make it go . Thousands more never start because they don't see ...
... standing on the bank shivering in- stead of jumping in and becoming warm by their own activity in the water . Thousands never start because they are afraid they can- not make it go . Thousands more never start because they don't see ...
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... stand at the bar of this Court and dare not vindicate my character , what a farce is your justice ! If I stand at this bar and dare not vindicate my character , how dare you calumniate it ? Does the sentence of death , which your ...
... stand at the bar of this Court and dare not vindicate my character , what a farce is your justice ! If I stand at this bar and dare not vindicate my character , how dare you calumniate it ? Does the sentence of death , which your ...
Page 47
... stand out before the world like shining stars in the firmament ? It may not be the firm's business how an employé spends his evenings , but it is its busi- ness if he is sleepy and half dead the next day . It is its business if he has ...
... stand out before the world like shining stars in the firmament ? It may not be the firm's business how an employé spends his evenings , but it is its busi- ness if he is sleepy and half dead the next day . It is its business if he has ...
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... stand . He knows his own strength , because he has done the thing before . What chance has the average city - bred boy with such a one when they enter business and competition ? It is not the pon- derous brain nor the mighty intellect ...
... stand . He knows his own strength , because he has done the thing before . What chance has the average city - bred boy with such a one when they enter business and competition ? It is not the pon- derous brain nor the mighty intellect ...
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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.