"Boy Wanted": A Book of Cheerful CounselForbes, 1906 - 106 páginas |
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... thousand and one things now being done by the men of to - day . It will not be so very long till all of these men will be old enough to retire from active service , and then you and the other boys , who in the meantime have grown to ...
... thousand and one things now being done by the men of to - day . It will not be so very long till all of these men will be old enough to retire from active service , and then you and the other boys , who in the meantime have grown to ...
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... thousand birds , drawn life - size . Be- ing obliged to leave the city before making final arrangements as to their dis- position , he placed his drawings in the warehouse of a friend . On his return in a few weeks he found to his utter ...
... thousand birds , drawn life - size . Be- ing obliged to leave the city before making final arrangements as to their dis- position , he placed his drawings in the warehouse of a friend . On his return in a few weeks he found to his utter ...
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... thousand pounds a year.SAM- UEL JOHNSON . " I always find something to keep me busy , " said Peter Cooper in explaining how he had preserved so well his strength of mind and body , " and to be doing some- thing is the best medicine one ...
... thousand pounds a year.SAM- UEL JOHNSON . " I always find something to keep me busy , " said Peter Cooper in explaining how he had preserved so well his strength of mind and body , " and to be doing some- thing is the best medicine one ...
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... thousand forests is in one acorn.- -EMER- SON . It is an error to think that play cannot be made to serve a good and useful pur- pose . Give one boy a knife and a stick and he will produce only a lot of shav- ings as the result of his ...
... thousand forests is in one acorn.- -EMER- SON . It is an error to think that play cannot be made to serve a good and useful pur- pose . Give one boy a knife and a stick and he will produce only a lot of shav- ings as the result of his ...
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... thousand pages , or eighteen large vol- umes , in a year . An hour a day might make all the difference between bare existence and useful , happy living . An hour a day might make - nay , has made - an unknown man a famous one , a use ...
... thousand pages , or eighteen large vol- umes , in a year . An hour a day might make all the difference between bare existence and useful , happy living . An hour a day might make - nay , has made - an unknown man a famous one , a use ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN achieved beautiful begin BENJAMIN FRANKLIN better BIRTHPLACE blessing BOOK OF CHEERFUL born BOY WANTED brain-wave Carlyle chance character CICERO cultivate day by day deeds deliver duty EDMUND VANCE COOKE EMERSON endeavor fame FRANKLIN friends fruit genius GEORGE MACDONALD give GOETHE habit hand Hank happy heart HERBERT SPEncer hope hour a day JEAN PAUL RICHTER Johnny journey Keep a-trying labor life's living look man's MATTHEW ARNOLD ment mind minute NATHAN HASKELL DOLE ness NIXON WATERMAN noble OLIVER WENDELL Holmes opportunity Patience PATRICK FLYNN purpose remember riches Shakespeare sign-post smile song sorry soul stick strength sure Sydney Smith tasks tells there's things THOMAS CARLYLE thou thought thoughtless tion to-day tree trifle trouble true truth Valley of Never virtue wait Waitawhile waste winning success wisdom wise wish words worth yender grass young youth
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Página 7 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Página 8 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.
Página 114 - I remember a satirical poem, in which the Devil is represented as fishing for men, and adapting his baits to the taste and temperament of his prey; but the idler, he said, pleased him most, because he bit the naked hook.
Página 7 - Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. He also reveals, within himself, the laws of thought, and...
Página 107 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Página 120 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 7 - A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild ; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.
Página 103 - One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write "it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Página 33 - I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Página 49 - A youth thoughtless ! when all the happiness of his home forever depends on the chances, or the passions, of an hour ! A youth thoughtless ! when the career of all his days depends on the opportunity of a moment ! A youth thoughtless...