 TV/FASTER 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,...  The Technical World Magazine - Page 4331904Full view - About this book
 | 1917 - 904 pages
...insurgent even before the time of mugwumps, but will be best remembered for his poem " Fate " : "Master of human destinies am I; Fame, love, and fortune on...knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake; feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state... | |
 | Louis William Rogers - 1917 - 230 pages
...Therefore such a plan cannot be the true one. John J. Ingalls personified opportunity and wrote: Master of human destinies am I! Fame, Love and Fortune on...I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, awake; if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1918 - 932 pages
...his literary talent ; his best-known poem, Opportunity, printed below, is destined to live: Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love and fortune on...state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death ; and those who doubt and hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 458 pages
...: far away. mart: the place where riches are acquired. penury : great poverty. OPPORTUNITY " Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love, and fortune...mart and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden at every gate ! 227 And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - 1919 - 438 pages
...most? Page 116. Opportunity. This poem seems a fitting reply to another, in which Opportunity says, " I knock unbidden once at every gate — If sleeping,...feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, . . . for I return no more." Page 117. The House by the Side of the Road. Good fellowship, friendliness,... | |
 | Edward L. Bailey - 1920 - 152 pages
...po sure cam e ra mu ti late de ceit ful ad e noids se cu ri ty quo ta tion 84 90 OPPORTUNITY Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love, and fortune...— soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate ! JOHN JAMES INGALLS hu man knock pal ace re mote for tune cit ies des ert des ti ny Write sentences... | |
 | James Langdon Hill - 1920 - 298 pages
...his call upon us and comes unawares and his approach is invariably disguised in humble garb. "Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love, and fortune on...soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate. Those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore;... | |
 | 1920 - 202 pages
...Bobbs-Merrill Company. Opportunity JOHN JAMES INCALLS (Born December 29, 1833 ; Died July 16, 1900; Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love, and fortune on...and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel, and mart, arid palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 408 pages
...What other story in this section has a lesson similar to this? OPPORTUNITY BY JOHN J. INGALLS MASTER of human destinies am I ! Fame, love, and fortune...passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late s I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake ; if feasting, rise before I turn away. It... | |
 | Edwin Hamlin Carr - 1922 - 312 pages
...like me, But only God can make a tree. (Reprinted by permission).—Joyce Kilmer. OPPORTUNITY Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love, and fortune on...late I knock 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... | |
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