Little Visits with Great Americans: Or, Success Ideals and how to Attain Them, Volume 1Orison Swett Marden Success Company, 1904 - 352 páginas |
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... appeared . The early files of the magazine are long since exhausted , but the interest in , and demand for , these articles is sufficient assurance that they are of enduring merit , and deserve to be collected in per- manent form ...
... appeared . The early files of the magazine are long since exhausted , but the interest in , and demand for , these articles is sufficient assurance that they are of enduring merit , and deserve to be collected in per- manent form ...
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... appeared , who conducted me up the walk to the elegant office and library of the great laboratory . It is a place , this library , not to be passed through without thought , for with a further store of volumes in his home , it contains ...
... appeared , who conducted me up the walk to the elegant office and library of the great laboratory . It is a place , this library , not to be passed through without thought , for with a further store of volumes in his home , it contains ...
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... appearance to " salt " him , as professional slang terms the process of giving a receiver matter faster than he can record it . For this purpose , the new man was assigned to a wire manipulated by a New York operator famous for his ...
... appearance to " salt " him , as professional slang terms the process of giving a receiver matter faster than he can record it . For this purpose , the new man was assigned to a wire manipulated by a New York operator famous for his ...
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... appeared to me that this waste of energy might be profitably employed in loading and firing the weapon , but it was not until I went to Europe and found myself in Paris with insufficient work to keep me fully employed , that I tried to ...
... appeared to me that this waste of energy might be profitably employed in loading and firing the weapon , but it was not until I went to Europe and found myself in Paris with insufficient work to keep me fully employed , that I tried to ...
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... appearance of one anxious to learn and quick to understand . James D. Reid , the superintendent of the office , and himself a Scotchman , favored the ambitious lad , and helped him . In his " History of the Telegraph , " he says of him ...
... appearance of one anxious to learn and quick to understand . James D. Reid , the superintendent of the office , and himself a Scotchman , favored the ambitious lad , and helped him . In his " History of the Telegraph , " he says of him ...
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A. B. Frost ability Alice Barber Stephens ambition American answer army artist asked attention began beginning believe Ben Hur career chance character Choate Company Cornelius Vanderbilt course Depew dollars draw duties early earned Edison editor ELLA WHEELER WILCOX employees entered experience father feel field fortune friends Gompers Governor hand hard honest honor hundred interest John Wanamaker Johnson knew labor literary literature living Lockport look matter Miles mind never Oak Hall opportunities paintings Peekskill poem political position president railroad replied road Roosevelt salary Samuel Gompers saved smile smokeless powder soon story success talent talk telegraph tell thing thought thousand tion to-day Tom Johnson town Vanderbilt Vreeland Wanamaker Wanamaker's Wendell Phillips write York York City young
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Página 260 - Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
Página 261 - What gulfs between him and the seraphim! Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades? What the long reaches of the peaks of song, The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose?
Página 261 - O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, How will the Future reckon with this Man? How answer his brute question in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world?
Página 261 - How will you ever straighten up this shape; Touch it again with immortality; Give back the upward looking and the light; Rebuild in it the music and the dream; Make right the immemorial infamies, Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?
Página 251 - I pray not that Men tremble at My power of place And lordly sway, — I only pray for simple grace To look my neighbor in the face Full honestly from day to day — Yield me his horny palm to hold, And I'll not pray For gold; — The tanned face, garlanded with mirth, It hath the kingliest smile on earth — The swart brow, diamonded with sweat, Hath never need of coronet.
Página 261 - O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, Is this the handiwork you give to God, This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?
Página 16 - 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.
Página 28 - I never did anything worth doing by accident," was the reply, " nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Página 16 - We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade. The tissue of the Life to be We weave with colors all our own, And in the field of Destiny We reap as we have sown.
Página 260 - Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; To feel the passion of Eternity? Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light? Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no shape more terrible than this...