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... tell in the bull's eye , or near . So , in the great game of life , what a man does must be made to count , or it had almost as well been left undone . The idle warrior , cut from a shingle , who fights the air on the top of a ...
... tell in the bull's eye , or near . So , in the great game of life , what a man does must be made to count , or it had almost as well been left undone . The idle warrior , cut from a shingle , who fights the air on the top of a ...
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... tell you that no girl worth having ever selected a man for a husband for his long tailor and livery stable bill , more than for his long ears . INTEGRITY THE FOUNDATION OF MERCAN- TILE CHARACTER . FAITH and AND MEN OF BUSINESS . 9.
... tell you that no girl worth having ever selected a man for a husband for his long tailor and livery stable bill , more than for his long ears . INTEGRITY THE FOUNDATION OF MERCAN- TILE CHARACTER . FAITH and AND MEN OF BUSINESS . 9.
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... telling " white lies , " as Mrs. Opie ' calls them , is most disastrous in all its influences and issues . How many ... tell a lie ? " Here was mani- fest one of these essential elements of character which made Washington first in war ...
... telling " white lies , " as Mrs. Opie ' calls them , is most disastrous in all its influences and issues . How many ... tell a lie ? " Here was mani- fest one of these essential elements of character which made Washington first in war ...
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... tell you what is in your power to accom- plish . You must gird up your loins , and go to work with all the indomitable energy of Napoleon scaling the Alps . It is your duty to make the most of your time , talents , and opportunities ...
... tell you what is in your power to accom- plish . You must gird up your loins , and go to work with all the indomitable energy of Napoleon scaling the Alps . It is your duty to make the most of your time , talents , and opportunities ...
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... welcome ; but , to do any good , I tell you over and over again , you must be a sticker . You may get fat upon a rock if you never quit your hold of it . DUTY OF TRUSTING TO OURSELVES . THERE is a duty AND MEN OF BUSINESS . 27.
... welcome ; but , to do any good , I tell you over and over again , you must be a sticker . You may get fat upon a rock if you never quit your hold of it . DUTY OF TRUSTING TO OURSELVES . THERE is a duty AND MEN OF BUSINESS . 27.
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Page 111 - But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel : but, being in, Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice : Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Page 111 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 136 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 113 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 114 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
Page 72 - ... new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations; that he should be ashamed of our compassion, and that the moment he acts from himself, tossing the laws, the books, idolatries and customs out of the window, we pity him no more but thank and revere...
Page 165 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 145 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, -when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day : demands it before he can receive it in a lump.
Page 72 - A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession, 1 for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
Page 144 - Remember this saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. This is sometimes of great use.