 | 1891 - 330 pàgines
...distant countries are united by canals. If a man were to compare the effect of a single stroke with a pick-axe, or of one impression of a spade, with the...importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pàgines
...of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains arc levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. — Jo/mson. Few things are... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 pàgines
...of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. — DR. JOHNSON. Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more thau talents... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 pàgines
...of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings." The Rev. Eliphalet Nott, a pulpit... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pàgines
...of one impression of the spade with the general design and hist result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. — Johnson. 408 PERSEVERANTE. Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pàgines
...of one impression of the spade with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. — Johnson. 408 PERSEVERANCE. Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1911 - 888 pàgines
...of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty...surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings." Great men never wait for opportunities;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 pàgines
...disproportion. But these petty operations incessantly repeated in time surmount the greatest obstacles, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings."1 But this is but a faint type of the changes produced by the same power upon the mind. It... | |
 | Don M. Aycock - 2004 - 96 pàgines
...of one impression of the spade with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty...surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings." 19 Prayer done in faith and perseverance... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 461 pàgines
...of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty...surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beGreat men never wait for opportunities... | |
| |
If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued,... 
