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" 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! If sleeping, wake... "
The Equitable News: An Agents' Journal - Page 5
1900
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Culture by Self-help in a Literary, an Academic Or an Oratorical Career

Robert Waters - 1909 - 388 pages
...opportunity for advancement. This matter is finely expressed in a little poem by John J. Ingalls entitled "Opportunity": Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait; Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Hovel and mart and palace—soon...
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Buffalo Medical Journal and Monthly Review of Medical and ..., Volume 64

1909 - 744 pages
...Fame, love and fortune, on my footstep wait. Cities and fields I walk ; I penetrate deserts and fields remote, And passing by hovel and mart and palace, soon or late, 1 1 'it' ;•' I knock unbidden once at every gate; If sleeping, wake ; if feasting, rise before I...
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The Politician

Edith Huntington Mason - 1910 - 430 pages
...it to her. " You read it aloud," she suggested. " If you wish," he said, and read these verses on " Opportunity ": "Master of human destinies am I; Fame,...unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise, before I turn away. It is the hour of fate; And they who follow me reach every state...
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Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Issue 36, Part 1

New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1910 - 1144 pages
...to-day. In this particular the great poem by the late John J. Ingalls may well be studied and employed : OPPORTUNITY. " Master of human destinies am I ! Fame,...unbidden once at every gate ! If sleeping, wake ! — if feasting, rise before I turn away ! It is the hour of Fate ! And they who follow me reach every state...
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Shorthand ; Typewriting ; Speed Shorthand ; Key-speed Shorthand

1910 - 388 pages
...comes to every one sooner or later, and it is indispensable that one be ready to take advantage of it. OPPORTUNITY Master of human destinies am I! Fame,...unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake: if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state...
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The Speaker: A Quarterly Magazine, Volume 4, Issues 13-16

1910 - 534 pages
...time: There's joy a-plenty in this world to fill life's silver cup Opportunity BY JOHN J. INGALLS. Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love, and fortune...unbidden once at every gate ! If sleeping wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state...
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A Williams Anthology: A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams ...

1910 - 244 pages
...faded slowly heavenward through the sunset skies. Quarterly, 1853. OPPORTUNITY JOHN J. INGALLS '55 MASTER of human destinies am I ; Fame, love, and fortune...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...
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Day in Court: Or, The Subtle Arts of Great Advocates

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...
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The Humbler Poets (second Series): A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical ...

Wallace Rice, Frances Rice - 1910 - 466 pages
...OPPORTUNITY MASTER of human destinies am II Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and field I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing...unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state...
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A Treasure Chest of Memories

Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 936 pages
...will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. Charles Kingsley. OPPORTUNITY Master of human destinies am I . Fame,...unbidden once at every gate ! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate. And they who follow me reach every state...
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