Successful Men of Today and what They Say of Success: Based on Facts and Opinions Gathered by Letters and Personal Interviews from Five Hundred Prominent Men

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Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1906 - 284 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 175 - Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Pàgina 182 - Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep alive: Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it : Thou...
Pàgina ii - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Pàgina 210 - A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Pàgina 112 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Pàgina 61 - For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye ? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others ? do not even the Gentiles the same ? Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Pàgina 158 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are: And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing...
Pàgina 235 - Be not weary in well-doing, for in due season ye shall reap, if ye faint not.
Pàgina 136 - No more but that I know the more one sickens the worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money, means and content is without three good friends; that the ^property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that a great cause of the night is lack of the sun ; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.
Pàgina 22 - POVERTY is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a Man to be drowned who was worth the saving.

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