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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 Technical World Magazine - Page 433
1904
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A Williams Anthology: A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams ...

1910 - 244 pages
...and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late, I knock unbidden once on every gate. If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before...uselessly implore; I answer not, and I return no more. The date of first appearance of this sonnet is not known to the editors. It is extracted here from...
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Day in Court: Or, The Subtle Arts of Great Advocates

Francis Lewis Wellman - 1910 - 292 pages
...feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state 57 Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death;...uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more ! " Lord Thurlow's ultimate rise was owing to a chance opportunity to display his wonderful attainments....
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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
...every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Commend to Failure, Penury and Woe, Seek me in vain, and uselessly implore — I answer not, and I return no more! Another type of tramp, who has my sympathy in large measure, is he who has been honest in his efforts...
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A Treasure Chest of Memories

Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 936 pages
...and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. Charles Kingsley. OPPORTUNITY Master of human destinies am I . Fame, love, and fortune...answer not, and I return no more. John J. Ingalls. ROCK OF AGES— THE HYMN Rock of Ages, cleft for me. Let me hide myself in Thee. Let the water and...
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Yale Book of American Verse

Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1912 - 634 pages
...inherit: All gods to thee their garlands bear, — Take one from Love and wear it ! Opportunity "Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love, and fortune...uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more!" Baby Bell I Have you not heard the poets tell How came the dainty Baby Bell Into this world of ours?...
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The World's Work, Volume 24

1912 - 896 pages
...footsteps wait; Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel, the mart, and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once...me in vain and uselessly implore. I answer not, and 1 return no more. I submit that the difference in the moral as well as in the artistic elevation of...
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Poems of sentiment and reflection

1912 - 440 pages
...me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe 279° Poems of Sentiment and Reflection Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned...implore. I answer not, and I return no more! John James Ingalls [1833-1900] OPPORTUNITY THEY do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and...
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The Indian Princess, Me-nung-gah: And Other Poems

Addison Woodard Stubbs - 1912 - 180 pages
...they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek...uselessly implore, I answer not and I return no more. The foregoing lines from the pen of the talented Ingalls, US Senator from Kansas, 1873-91, have been...
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Salesmanship for Women ...

Mrs. Adelaide (Benedict) Roche - 1913 - 144 pages
...the goods sold, nor can they ask a customer of theirs for the names of prospective buyers." "Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love and fortune on...answer not and I return no more." — John J. Ingalls. "3 ALL IN THE STATE OF MIND. If you think you're beaten you are. If you think you dare not you don't....
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The Upper Trail

James Robert Gettys - 1913 - 110 pages
...fallacies ever couched in classic language is the little poem by John J. Ingalls on "Opportunity:" Master of human destinies am I, Fame, love, and fortune on...uselessly implore; I answer not, and I return no more. That is fatalism complete. That hangs leaden weights upon the wings of ambition, and strangles hope...
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