The secret of success; or, How to get on in the worldJohn Hogg, 1880 |
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... thought it my duty or my province to encroach upon the work of the teachers of religion , I have not forgotten that the happiness of the Other Life depends upon the way in which Success in this life is achieved or understood . I have ...
... thought it my duty or my province to encroach upon the work of the teachers of religion , I have not forgotten that the happiness of the Other Life depends upon the way in which Success in this life is achieved or understood . I have ...
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... thought , or what , if any , to our religious duties . The fact is , we are uneasily conscious that the balance - sheet would be one to cover us with shame and con- fusion . Of all the trite themes touched by moralists and poets , the ...
... thought , or what , if any , to our religious duties . The fact is , we are uneasily conscious that the balance - sheet would be one to cover us with shame and con- fusion . Of all the trite themes touched by moralists and poets , the ...
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... thought , its great discoverers , its poets , its essayists , its doers of good . They have known how to utilise those odd half - hours and spare quarters which ordinary persons treat with so little considera- tion . They have never ...
... thought , its great discoverers , its poets , its essayists , its doers of good . They have known how to utilise those odd half - hours and spare quarters which ordinary persons treat with so little considera- tion . They have never ...
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... thought , or adding to our stock of knowledge . Many of us are unable to undertake a con- tinuous course of study ; but all can pick up a grain here and a grain there if they utilise the occasions which present themselves to the ...
... thought , or adding to our stock of knowledge . Many of us are unable to undertake a con- tinuous course of study ; but all can pick up a grain here and a grain there if they utilise the occasions which present themselves to the ...
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... thought that the anecdote had suggested to Tennyson one of his earlier poems : - " When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy , The tide of time flowed back with me , The forward - flowing tide of time ...
... thought that the anecdote had suggested to Tennyson one of his earlier poems : - " When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy , The tide of time flowed back with me , The forward - flowing tide of time ...
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Page 145 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 14 - As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains; but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, * A bringer of new things...
Page 345 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 246 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order...
Page 66 - The longer I live the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible 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 opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 301 - But stately in the main; and, when he ended, I could have laughed myself to scorn to find In that decrepit Man so firm a mind. 'God...
Page 102 - Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place.
Page 101 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see everywhere.
Page 125 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
Page 307 - Fool! the Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself; thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of — what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic?