| 1857 - 594 páginas
...!'' And he becomes great. His works are the admiration of thousands. It has been shrewdly remarked that " the great difference between men — between...powerful, the great and the insignificant — is energy • iavincible determination." Energy and determination. These qualitics, when directed towards legitimate... | |
| 1857 - 784 páginas
...and success must crown your endeavours." A powerful will can do great things. The great difference between the feeble and the powerful, the great and...insignificant, is energy, invincible determination and purpose. No talents are of much use if this quality be wanting. But John Cutts had a religious... | |
| 1858 - 348 páginas
...soul.' " Therein lay the real element of this man's success. His own motto, in his own words, was, " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...— 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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 páginas
...Like a star on eternity's ocean. LVm. — SELECT PARAGRAPHS IN PROSE. ENERGY. SIR T. POWELL BUXTOK. THE longer I live, the more I am certain that the...determination. A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...instances. The history of heroes is the history of youth. D'lBRAELI. The longer I live, the more am I certain that the great difference between men, —...— a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That talent can do anything that can be done in this world, and no one can be a man without it— SIR... | |
| 1859 - 436 páginas
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| 1859 - 188 páginas
...rejoice that you were wise enough to form and to act upon that determination." FOWELL BUXTON'S MOTTO. " THE longer I live, the more I am certain that the...great and the insignificant, is ENERGY— INVINCIBLE DETERMINATION—a purpose once fixed, and then DEATH or VICTORY. That quality will do any thing that... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 páginas
...his own words, which every young man might well stamp upon his soul: " The longer I live," said he, " the more I am certain that the great difference between...the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy—invincible determination—a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory! That quality will... | |
| Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 páginas
...word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution. ENERGY. — (SiR TF BUXTON.) THE longer I live, the more I am certain that the...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... | |
| Wit - 1860 - 282 páginas
...mind, not to be moved by any adversity. — Walsingham. " The longer I live," says Sir TF Buxton, " the more I am certain that the great difference between...energy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed in, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in the world ; and no... | |
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