Winning Out: A Book for Young People on Character Building by Habit FormingLothrop Publishing Company, 1900 - 251 من الصفحات |
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Abd-el-Kader Abraham Lincoln asked battle beat became began better blacksmith bought Budgett called character courage DAVID LIVINGSTONE determined diamonds earn enemy everything eyes fire Frederick Douglass Garfield gave girl give GRACE DARLINGS Grand Central Depot Grant Greeley habit hammer hand hard head heard Henry Wilson honest Horace Greeley horse hundred keep knew labor learned lesson lived Livingstone looked master ment merchant Michael Faraday miles mind minutes moral morning mother never night officer Ole Bull once opportunity ORISON SWETT MARDEN paper poor President President Carnot replied rub-a-dub-dub says shoes slave soldiers soon Stephen Girard story success teacher tell thee thing thought told tongue took trade twenty violin voice wait walk Washington watch WILLIAM COBBETT words young youth
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الصفحة 209 - The whole of the money not expended for us at market was twopence a week for each man. I remember, and well I may, that upon one occasion I, after all absolutely necessary expenses, had, on a Friday, made shift to have a halfpenny in reserve, which I had destined for the purchase of a red herring in the morning ; but when I pulled off my clothes at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny. I buried my head under the miserable sheet and rug, and...
الصفحة 3 - I won't count this time!' Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
الصفحة 4 - As you did that habit make. As you gathered, you must lose ; As you yielded, now refuse. Thread by thread the strands we twist, Till they bind us, neck and wrist ; Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine, ere free we stand ; As we builded, stone by stone, We must toil unhelped, alone, Till the wall is overthrown.
الصفحة 251 - Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
الصفحة 127 - Desaix never taught me that ; but I can beat a charge, — oh ! I can beat a charge that will make the dead fall into line. I beat that charge at the Pyramids ; I beat that charge at Mount Tabor; I beat it again at the bridge of Lodi. May I beat it here?
الصفحة 115 - Not long ago, in Edinburgh, two gentlemen were standing at the door of an hotel one very cold day, when a little boy with a poor thin blue face, his feet bare and red with the cold, and with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came and said, " Please, sir, buy some matches." " No, I don't want any," the gentleman said. "But they are only a penny a box," the poor little fellow pleaded.
الصفحة 247 - If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
الصفحة 55 - I resolved, when beginning to read law, to make everything I acquired perfectly my own, and never to go to a second thing till I had entirely accomplished the first. Many of my competitors read as much in a day as I read in a week ; but, at the end of tw-elve months, my knowledge was as fresh as on the day it was acquired, while theirs had glided away from their recollection.
الصفحة 168 - ... when the vibrations of the voice sent the fine steel point into my finger. That set me to thinking. If I could record the actions of the point and send the point over the same surface afterward, I saw no reason why the thing would not talk. I tried the experiment first on a strip of telegraph paper, and found that the point made an alphabet. I shouted the words ' Halloo ! Halloo ! ' into the mouth-piece, ran the paper back over the steel point, and heard a faint ' Halloo ! Halloo !
الصفحة 100 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.