Pushing to the Front, or, Success under Difficulties
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ISBN13: 9780217038829
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. WHAT CAREER? Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five-barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide. But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries ? forbear With obstinacy fixes there; And where his genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs. Swift. The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. ? Emerson. And he who waits to have his task marked out, Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled. Lowell. Whatever von are by nature, keep to it; never deSert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. ? Sydney Smith. In the measure in which thou seekest to do thy duty shalt thou know what is in thee. But what is thy duty? The demand of the hour.? Goethe. Do noble things, not dream them, all day long, And so make life, death, and the vast forever, one grand, sweet song. Charles Kingsley. Every man has got a Fort, said Artemus Ward. It's some men's fort to do one thing, and some other men's fort to do another, while there is numeris shiftless critters goin' round loose whose fort is not to do nothin. Twice I've endevered to do things which they was n't my Tort. The first time was when I undertook to lick a owdashus cuss who cut a hole in my tent andkrawld threw. Sez I, ' My jentle sir, go out, or I shall fall onto you putty hevy.' Sez he, ' Wade in, Old Wax Kggers, ' whereupon I went for him, but he cawt me power...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217038829 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217038824 |
| Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 In |
| List Price | $21.33 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 288 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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