 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.  Columbian Historical Novels - Page 380by John Roy Musick - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1905 - 472 pages
...cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. Charles Kingsley. 536362A Master of human destinies am I . Fame, love, and fortune...palace, soon or 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... | |
 | 1905 - 494 pages
...Father For the sweetest gift — a mother's love ; Nobody can but mother. Maine Farmer. OPPOETUNITY. Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love, and fortune...palace, soon or 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... | |
 | William Arch McKeever - 1905 - 252 pages
...we find the stalwart, self-reliant character, who, in the language of Senator Ingalls, might say : "Master of human destinies am I: Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait." Love and Self -Confidence. — Another of the great promoters of self-confidence, as well as of long... | |
 | William Milford Giffin - 1906 - 152 pages
...the senses with which to work, admit there is a child under my charge whose mind I cannot reach ? " OPPORTUNITY. "Master of human destinies am I. Fame,...soon or 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... | |
 | Orlando Oscar Stealey - 1906 - 536 pages
...United States Senator. These should give him fame as long as the English tongue is spoken. He wrote: OPPORTUNITY. Master of human destinies am I! Fame,...soon or 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... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - 1906 - 428 pages
...nineties, and widely reproduced by the American press. It is entitled " Opportunity," and is as follows: Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune...soon or 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... | |
 | 1906 - 594 pages
...1825. OPPORTUNITY. By the late Senator John J. Ingalls. IV /I ASTER of human destinies am l! *•**• Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities...soon 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... | |
 | 1907 - 656 pages
...written a classic stanza on this subject. Into the mouth of Opportunity, he puts this beautiful song : Master of human destinies, am I! Fame, love and fortune...soon or 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... | |
 | Edwin Styles Metcalf - 1907 - 336 pages
...of the people — by the people — for the people — and whose motto is — LIBERTY and EXCBLSIOR! "Master of human destinies am I. Fame — love—...soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If Bleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate." — John J. Ingalla.... | |
 | 1907 - 210 pages
...Heaven holds all for which you sigh. There ! little girl, don't cry ! — James Whitcomb Eiley. ASTER of human destinies am I ! Fame, love and fortune on...— soon or 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... | |
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