How to Get on in the World, Or a Ladder to Practical SuccessThe old saying, "Marry in haste and repent at leisure," will never lose its force. Worse than the man whose selfishness keeps him a bachelor till death, is the young man, who, under an impulse he imagines to be an undying love, marries a girl as poor, weak, and selfish as himself.-from "Chapter VII: As to Marriage"Subtitled A Ladder to Practical Success, this little book is chock full of handy advice for a young man looking to make his way in the world... or at least in the world of 1895, when it was first published. Calhoun's guidance encompasses: .the importance of correct habits.the value of experience.selecting a calling.some of labor's compensations.patience and perseverance.and more.While some of its core counsel is timeless, this quaint work is a charming look back at a society that no longer exists.Also available from Cosimo Classics: Calhoun's Business Hints for Men and Women.American artist and writer ALFRED ROCHEFORT CALHOUN contributed photography, sketches, and articles to publications including Harper's Weekly and the Philadelphia Press. |
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... strength is measured by our plastic power . From the same materials one man builds palaces , another hovels ; one ware- houses , another villas . Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks , until the architect can make them something else ...
... strength is measured by our plastic power . From the same materials one man builds palaces , another hovels ; one ware- houses , another villas . Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks , until the architect can make them something else ...
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... strength , and found a people to believe him . Of such an achievement , were it to be made once only , the results are immense , Thought , in such a country , may change its form , but cannot go out ; the country has attained majority ...
... strength , and found a people to believe him . Of such an achievement , were it to be made once only , the results are immense , Thought , in such a country , may change its form , but cannot go out ; the country has attained majority ...
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... strength of following the footsteps of their parents , of walking uprightly , governing themselves wisely , and contributing to the wel- fare of those about them . On the other hand , if surrounded by ignor- ance , coarseness , and ...
... strength of following the footsteps of their parents , of walking uprightly , governing themselves wisely , and contributing to the wel- fare of those about them . On the other hand , if surrounded by ignor- ance , coarseness , and ...
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... strength the young man may be , under these circumstances he is very apt , for the time at least , to under - estimate his own strength . He is powerfully impressed by what he deems the smartness or the superior manners of those whom he ...
... strength the young man may be , under these circumstances he is very apt , for the time at least , to under - estimate his own strength . He is powerfully impressed by what he deems the smartness or the superior manners of those whom he ...
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... strength and grace can be cultivated under the direction of competent teachers . Here are to be found well organized libraries . Here , particularly in the winter season , there are classes where all the branches of a high school are ...
... strength and grace can be cultivated under the direction of competent teachers . Here are to be found well organized libraries . Here , particularly in the winter season , there are classes where all the branches of a high school are ...
Contents
As to Public Life | 109 |
The Need of Constant Effort | 118 |
Some of Labors Compensations | 127 |
Patience and Perseverance | 139 |
Success but Seldom Accidental | 157 |
Cultivate Observation and Judgment | 177 |
Singleness of Purpose | 190 |
A Sound Mind in a Sound Body | 228 |
The Value of Experience | 73 |
Selecting a Calling | 84 |
We Must Help Ourselves до | 90 |
Successful Farming | 101 |
Labor Creates the Only True Nobility | 247 |
The Successful Man is SelfMade | 257 |
Unselfishness and Helpfulness | 274 |
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Page 298 - If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough...
Page 68 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 298 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 81 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 63 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!