 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 4331904Full view - About this book
 | 1920 - 748 pages
...that Senator Ingalls felt that he could assert this without qualification : "Master of human destities am I. Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait....uselessly implore ; I answer not, and I return no more." When, however, we come down to cold solid prose we know that opportunity does not ' ' knock unbidden... | |
 | 1920 - 202 pages
...Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel, and mart, arid palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every...uselessly implore — I answer not, and I return no more.Waiting JOHN BURROUGHS (Born April 3, 1837; ) Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 408 pages
...the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe 10 Save Death ; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned...uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more ! COMMUNITY AND COUNTRY Happy are all free peoples too strong to be dispossessed; But blessed are those... | |
 | Edwin Hamlin Carr - 1922 - 314 pages
...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...implore, I answer not, and I return no more. — John J. Ingalh. Jft OPPORTUNITY They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I knock and fail to find... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1922 - 660 pages
...government and social held in order that all the forces at OPPORTUNITY John James Ingalls, 1833-1900 Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love, and fortune...uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return, no more. [From Stevenson's Home Book of Verse, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1918.] OPPORTUNITY Walter Malone,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...dead men, or dead ones who natter themselves that they are alive. ELBERT HUBBARD. In The Philistine. I I knock unbidden once at every gate — If sleeping,...answer not, and I return no more. JOHN J. INGALLS — Opportunity. (See also HUBBARD, MALONE) 2 They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I... | |
 | Edwin Hamlin Carr - 1922 - 312 pages
...Hovel and mart, and 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...uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more. OPPORTUNITY —John J. Ingalln. They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I knock and fail... | |
 | Ernest Hurst Cherrington - 1922 - 182 pages
...desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, misery and woe, Seek me in vain, and uselessly implore; I answer not, and I return no more " 155] Rejoice we are allied To that which doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive! A... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...beds for me and all who seek? Yea beds for all who come. CHBISTINA RORSETTI 91. OPPORTUNITY > MASTEB of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on...uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more! 92. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And... | |
 | L.W. Rogers - 1923 - 294 pages
...be the true one. John J. Ingalls personified opportunity and wrote: Master of human destinies am It Fame, Love and Fortune on my footsteps wait; Cities...uselessly implore; I answer not and I return no more. That is true enough from one viewpoint and profitably emphasizes the importance of promptly acting... | |
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