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... honour in business must be prepared for offending and alienating some of his supporters . His opinion is confirmed by Herbert Spencer , in " The Morals of Trade , " who gives instances therein of manufacturers and traders becoming ...
... honour in business must be prepared for offending and alienating some of his supporters . His opinion is confirmed by Herbert Spencer , in " The Morals of Trade , " who gives instances therein of manufacturers and traders becoming ...
Page vii
... honour only to the higher and less selfish modes of activity . In 1873 I circulated , gratuitously , nearly 30,000 copies of my " Essay on Business , " written with the purpose of stimulating and encouraging a more honourable and ...
... honour only to the higher and less selfish modes of activity . In 1873 I circulated , gratuitously , nearly 30,000 copies of my " Essay on Business , " written with the purpose of stimulating and encouraging a more honourable and ...
Page viii
... honour , dauntless in peril , but morbidly trembling at the very shadow of disgrace . To the young , I say , if error mislead you , go fearlessly to your parents for counsel , keep your names and minds pure and free from stain , be ...
... honour , dauntless in peril , but morbidly trembling at the very shadow of disgrace . To the young , I say , if error mislead you , go fearlessly to your parents for counsel , keep your names and minds pure and free from stain , be ...
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... honoured digni- taries , and , were it possible , true God - ordained priests for teaching . " The teacher's vocation is one of the very highest extant , truly a noble one , and only rare natures should have to do with it . Every ...
... honoured digni- taries , and , were it possible , true God - ordained priests for teaching . " The teacher's vocation is one of the very highest extant , truly a noble one , and only rare natures should have to do with it . Every ...
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... honour of being a worker , not for the devotion of our life to the accumulation of wealth . You can be industrious in a variety of ways . What is the use of health , or of life itself , unless it be to do something in this world for our ...
... honour of being a worker , not for the devotion of our life to the accumulation of wealth . You can be industrious in a variety of ways . What is the use of health , or of life itself , unless it be to do something in this world for our ...
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Page 56 - Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal ' fraction of a Product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis ' the utmost thou hast in thee ; out with it then. Up, ' up ! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with ' thy whole might. Work while it is called To-day, for ' the Night enmeth wherein no man can work.
Page 60 - That every man in arms should wish to be? -It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright...
Page 54 - Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Page 48 - Och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent.
Page 12 - In the world's broad field of battle. In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 105 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Page 173 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Page 12 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 99 - They think it is day, and will never be night ; that a little to be spent out of so much is not worth minding.
Page 95 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.