Self-effort; or, The true method of attaining success in life |
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... course ! On one side are arrayed his passions , demanding gratification at any cost - luxury , power , ease , and all sensual pleasures ; on the other side is the stern law , refrain , obey , with the unalterable conditions of all human ...
... course ! On one side are arrayed his passions , demanding gratification at any cost - luxury , power , ease , and all sensual pleasures ; on the other side is the stern law , refrain , obey , with the unalterable conditions of all human ...
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... course , and lack success at the end . How often has it been experienced that the brightest youth , giving notable promise of moral and intellectual achievement , yielding to the blandishments and allure- ments of temptation , has ...
... course , and lack success at the end . How often has it been experienced that the brightest youth , giving notable promise of moral and intellectual achievement , yielding to the blandishments and allure- ments of temptation , has ...
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... course was strongly opposed by his mother . She consented , however , to his obtain- ing a berth on board one of the vessels navigating Lake Erie , in the hope that he would soon have enough of a sailor's life . Fortunately he had ...
... course was strongly opposed by his mother . She consented , however , to his obtain- ing a berth on board one of the vessels navigating Lake Erie , in the hope that he would soon have enough of a sailor's life . Fortunately he had ...
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... course of education . The students in after years had good reason to remember Garfield , not only for the pains he manifested in their studies , but for the excellent advice he gave them in his lectures . The subjects of his lectures ...
... course of education . The students in after years had good reason to remember Garfield , not only for the pains he manifested in their studies , but for the excellent advice he gave them in his lectures . The subjects of his lectures ...
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... course can only end in disappointment . In seeking to obtain that knowledge which will be useful in the position in which we have been placed by Providence , we act according to the dictates of wisdom ; and there is no business or ...
... course can only end in disappointment . In seeking to obtain that knowledge which will be useful in the position in which we have been placed by Providence , we act according to the dictates of wisdom ; and there is no business or ...
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Self Effort: Or the True Method of Attaining Success in Life (1883) Joseph Johnson No preview available - 2009 |
Self-Effort; Or - The True Method of Attaining Success in Life Joseph Johnson No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 165 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 297 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 320 - I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in...
Page 175 - Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due, and sacred song...
Page 23 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope...
Page 300 - No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If the sacred writers will enter and take...
Page 211 - I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another ; habit took the advantage of inattention ; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping ; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we...
Page 56 - Some high or humble enterprise of good Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind, Become thy study, pastime, rest, and food, And kindle in thy heart a flame refined. Pray Heaven for firmness thy whole soul to bind To this thy purpose — to begin, pursue, With thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind ; Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all is ever due.
Page 318 - Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great. There is a sublime attraction in him to whatever virtue is in us. How he flings wide the doors of existence ! What questions we ask of him ! what an understanding we have ! how few words are needed ! It is the only real society.
Page 211 - I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined.