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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... hundreds of thousands of dollars . The acorn from which grew this mighty oak was a young man's choice of honesty as the foundation of his career . Books and essays by the score and hundred have been written by theorists upon the ...
... hundreds of thousands of dollars . The acorn from which grew this mighty oak was a young man's choice of honesty as the foundation of his career . Books and essays by the score and hundred have been written by theorists upon the ...
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... hundred , " he answered , " but I have made application for some three hundred more . " " And do you expect to retire soon , after all this ? " " I hope not , " he said , almost pathetically . " I hope I will be able to work right on to ...
... hundred , " he answered , " but I have made application for some three hundred more . " " And do you expect to retire soon , after all this ? " " I hope not , " he said , almost pathetically . " I hope I will be able to work right on to ...
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... hundred pounds , " replied Pat . " And how much do you weigh ? " " Two hundred pounds . " " Well , " said Maxim , " I will lift you and your load together , " and he did it . HOW THE MAINE " BACKWOODSMAN " CAPTURED A ROB- BER 40 Hiram ...
... hundred pounds , " replied Pat . " And how much do you weigh ? " " Two hundred pounds . " " Well , " said Maxim , " I will lift you and your load together , " and he did it . HOW THE MAINE " BACKWOODSMAN " CAPTURED A ROB- BER 40 Hiram ...
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... hundred lights or less , and the density and illuminating power of the gas varied so much as to make the lights very unsatisfactory . I decided to make a machine that would make the gas , from first to last , of an equal den- sity . I ...
... hundred lights or less , and the density and illuminating power of the gas varied so much as to make the lights very unsatisfactory . I decided to make a machine that would make the gas , from first to last , of an equal den- sity . I ...
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... hundred thousand rounds of ammuni- tion were used in explaining the gun and showing it to visitors . At first , no one would believe that an auto- matic gun had really been made . No one was prepared to believe , without seeing it . In ...
... hundred thousand rounds of ammuni- tion were used in explaining the gun and showing it to visitors . At first , no one would believe that an auto- matic gun had really been made . No one was prepared to believe , without seeing it . In ...
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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...