Leaders of Men: Or, Types and Principles of Success, as Illustrated in the Lives and Careers of Famous Americans of the Present DayHenry Woldmar Ruoff King-Richardson, 1902 - 695 páginas |
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... look for honesty and uprightness in citizens ; it sets every question at rest be- tween man and man : we look for integrity and probity in statesmen , or such as have to adjust the rights of many . " Yet all of these persons are alike ...
... look for honesty and uprightness in citizens ; it sets every question at rest be- tween man and man : we look for integrity and probity in statesmen , or such as have to adjust the rights of many . " Yet all of these persons are alike ...
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... look for " exact justice . " He undertook the celebrated Patterson trial , a case of mur- der , supposing the accused was innocent . Before the evidence was all in , he became satisfied that the man was guilty , and withdrew from the ...
... look for " exact justice . " He undertook the celebrated Patterson trial , a case of mur- der , supposing the accused was innocent . Before the evidence was all in , he became satisfied that the man was guilty , and withdrew from the ...
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... look upon as distinctively American . It is compounded of keen intelligence , celerity in action , readiness of re- source , large toleration , easy good humor , confident optimism , and entire independence . A shrewd wit flavors it , a ...
... look upon as distinctively American . It is compounded of keen intelligence , celerity in action , readiness of re- source , large toleration , easy good humor , confident optimism , and entire independence . A shrewd wit flavors it , a ...
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... Look round among your friends and acquaintances ; there is perhaps among them an example of perseverance . Keep your eye on him for a time ; does it not seem as though he had a double vitality within him , some other man's life as well ...
... Look round among your friends and acquaintances ; there is perhaps among them an example of perseverance . Keep your eye on him for a time ; does it not seem as though he had a double vitality within him , some other man's life as well ...
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... looks on great ones with calm courage . View it as we will , the conclusion is inevitable that perse- verance is its own reward . " Never give up ! there are chances and changes Helping the hopeful a hundred to one , And through the ...
... looks on great ones with calm courage . View it as we will , the conclusion is inevitable that perse- verance is its own reward . " Never give up ! there are chances and changes Helping the hopeful a hundred to one , And through the ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 38 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free ; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight ! I repeat it, sir, — we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us ! They...
Página 303 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee.
Página 43 - And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
Página 491 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.
Página 191 - 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 193 - Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Página 490 - A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.
Página 38 - Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Our brethren arc already in the field ! Why stand we here idle?
Página 491 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Página 268 - Friends and comrades!" he said, "on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south.