 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:...  Ingalls of Kansas: A Character Study - Page 129by William Elsey Connelley - 1909 - 232 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1918 - 856 pages
...to humanity. The late John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, in a famous sonnet, makes "Opportunity" say: Muter of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fit-Ids I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon... | |
 | 1907 - 506 pages
...the garden, and there made our peace under God's sky, alone in the springtime twilight. New York, NY OPPORTUNITY. Master of human destinies am I! Fame,...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... | |
 | Cass Grove Barns - 1970 - 312 pages
...It became an old state as the star of empire was moving westward. CHAPTER II The Birth of Nebraska "Master of human destinies am I, Fame, love, and fortune on my footstepi watt, Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel,... | |
 | Margaret Mead - 2005 - 380 pages
...in; For everyday I stand outside your door And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win. 1 Or this: Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune...and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace—soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake—if feasting, rise before... | |
 | Margaret Mead - 2005 - 382 pages
...you in; For everyday I stand outside your door And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win.' Or this: Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields 1 walk; 1 penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late... | |
 | Donald Morris - 2006 - 470 pages
...industry. — Confucius Behold. I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. — Rev. 3:8 I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away . . . [for] I return no more! — John James Ingalls Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any... | |
 | George Latimer Apperson - 2006 - 656 pages
...handcs the offer of a goo torne. 1891:JJlngalls, Opportunity' in Truth (NY) 19 Feb., 17, I [Opportunity] knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake: if feasting, rise before I turn away. ..[for] I return no more. 1941: 'P. Wentworth', Unlawful Occasions, xxiv, It was an opportunity with... | |
 | Michael R. Beschloss - 2007 - 451 pages
...also posted a photograph of a bear and a John James Ingalls sonnet called "Opportunity," which began, Master of human destinies am I Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. From that new West Wing office in 1903, Roosevelt asked Congress to establish a Department of Commerce,... | |
 | 1896 - 264 pages
...Montrose St., Glasgow), pp. 94, 6d. — An exhaustive and convincing argument in favour of the Single Tax. OPPORTUNITY. Master of human destinies am I Fame,...feasting, rise before I turn away ; it is the hour oi fate. And those who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death... | |
 | 1901 - 1490 pages
...celebrated scholar and statesman, John J. Ingalls, if he is to be credited with the following definition of opportunity: "Master of human destinies am I ; Fame,...gate. If sleeping, wake: if feasting, rise before 1 turn away. It is the hour of fate, And those who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and... | |
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