 OPPORTUNITY.Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late — I knock unbidden once at every gate...  Bulletin of Pharmacy - Page 441901Full view - About this book
 | 1910 - 244 pages
...slowly heavenward through the sunset skies. Quarterly, 1853. OPPORTUNITY JOHN J. INGALLS 's$ MASTER of human destinies am I; Fame, love, and fortune on...mart and palace, soon or late, I knock unbidden once on every gate. If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before I turn away; it is the hour of fate, And... | |
 | Francis Lewis Wellman - 1910 - 292 pages
...the words of Senator Ingalls, who thus spoke of "Opportunity": — " Master of human destinies am 1 1 Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities...palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate I If sleeping, wake ; if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow... | |
 | 1912 - 708 pages
...Master Plumbers' Association, at Sioux City, la., Jan. 15, 1913. "Master of human destinies, ara II Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities...soon or late, I knock, unbidden, once, at every gate I If feasting, rise; if sleeping wake, before — I turn away. It is the hour of fate. And they who... | |
 | 1912 - 440 pages
...here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust. Robert Southey [1774-1843] OPPORTUNITY MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on...every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe 279° Poems of Sentiment and Reflection Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure,... | |
 | Hiram Taylor French - 1914 - 768 pages
...opportunity as expressed by the late John J. Ingalls, the brilliant Kansas statesman and writer, who wrote: "I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping,...rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate." Others believe that opportunity is ever present, but reveals itself only to him of a discerning mind,... | |
 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1915 - 384 pages
...as the distinguished senator and the most renowed debater of his day. Thus runs the poem: " Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love, and fortune...or late I knock unbidden, once, at every gate ! If feasting, rise; if sleeping, wake before I turn away. It is the hour of fate; And they who follow me... | |
 | Walton Hale Hamilton - 1916 - 914 pages
...by them ? But these are only three out of this thousand. 47. Opportunity BY JOHN J. INGALLS Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love, and fortune...rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate And those who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death ; but those... | |
 | Willard Austin Wattles - 1917 - 252 pages
...of God's way As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day. Harry Kemp Opportunity Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on...and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palaqe, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate ! If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before... | |
 | 1916 - 768 pages
...And he wrote a famous sonnet. It is one of the classics of English literature: OPPORTUNITY. Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait; ('Hies and Holds I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote ; and passing by Hovel mid mart and palace,... | |
 | Bertie Charles Forbes - 1917 - 570 pages
...a lifetime, not once, as sang the poet who put these words into the mouth of "Opportunity": Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on...once at every gate! If sleeping, wake; if feasting, nse before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire,... | |
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