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 51900Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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