 If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.  Saint Jospeh Medical Herald - Page 521914Full view - About this book
 | Jessie K. Freeman, Ladies of Fabiola Hospital Association, Fabiola hospital association, Oakland, Calif - 1901 - 182 pages
...he holds reverential converse? — Plato. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap, than his neighbor, though...woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — Emerson. Come, let us live the poetry we sing. — Edwin Markham. "Instead of wishing that all... | |
 | Iowa Library Commission - 1924 - 544 pages
...book or preach a better sermon or build a better mouse trap than your neighbor, though you build your house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to your door." In "More Mother Goose," Lydia M. Barrette of Mason City, Iowa, was courageous enough to... | |
 | 1902 - 494 pages
...better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — RALPH WALDO EMEKSON. JOEL TYLER HEADLEY. (From " Napoleon and His Marshals.'"! At length. Moscow, with its domes,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - 362 pages
...better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — EMERSON. IR, it is a watch which I have made and regulated myself," said George Graham of London... | |
 | Colorado. University. School of medicine, University of Colorado - 1906 - 44 pages
...says, "If a man can write a better book, or make a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." This is as true in medicine as in any other line of work, and is well exemplified in the case of the... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1904 - 370 pages
...better t ^K, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.—EMERSON. Character is power—is influe. ce; it makes friends, r ates funds, draws patronage... | |
 | 1920 - 464 pages
...Wolcott I7MERSON said— "If a man make a better I—i mouse trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." Thus has been the history of Crane Co., not because they make better mouse traps, but because they... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1905 - 376 pages
...better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — EMERSON. Character is power — is influence; it makes friends, creates funds, draws patronage... | |
 | 1910 - 734 pages
...better sermon, write a better book, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbors, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." This quotation has been attributed to various writers: Thoreau, Emerson and Elbert Hubbard. Recently... | |
 | Gustavus Sylvester Kimball - 1905 - 166 pages
...a better book. preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."— Emerson. ae ces ' si ble, capable of bei ng reached or entered. agf' gran dize, to make great or greater.... | |
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