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... true , " he says , " that every one cannot feel assured of the eminent natural gifts which characterized Mr. Mason's mind ; but all can imitate the patient study , the industrious investigation , the unshaken integrity , and ...
... true , " he says , " that every one cannot feel assured of the eminent natural gifts which characterized Mr. Mason's mind ; but all can imitate the patient study , the industrious investigation , the unshaken integrity , and ...
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... men . Not so ; the great men already are such ; they only want occasions to call forth their talents . Give them a fair field , and the confidence which belongs to true greatness Self-Confidence -Gouverneur Morris, · CHAPTER IV.
... men . Not so ; the great men already are such ; they only want occasions to call forth their talents . Give them a fair field , and the confidence which belongs to true greatness Self-Confidence -Gouverneur Morris, · CHAPTER IV.
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The Lawyer Louisa Caroline Tuthill. field , and the confidence which belongs to true greatness will enable them to prove their strength . There is an immense difference between self - confidence and self - conceit . When the young artist ...
The Lawyer Louisa Caroline Tuthill. field , and the confidence which belongs to true greatness will enable them to prove their strength . There is an immense difference between self - confidence and self - conceit . When the young artist ...
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... true- ' Act well your part , there all the honor lies . ' And it is the just boast of our own country , that in no civilized nation is the force of this philanthropic maxim so nobly illustrated as in ours - thanks to our glorious ...
... true- ' Act well your part , there all the honor lies . ' And it is the just boast of our own country , that in no civilized nation is the force of this philanthropic maxim so nobly illustrated as in ours - thanks to our glorious ...
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... - signed , success , is not founded upon self - partiality , or self- exaggeration — but upon true , consistent self - knowledge , and self - respect . CHAPTER FOURTH . JOHN JAY . " The law Whereof 26 SUCCESS IN LIFE .
... - signed , success , is not founded upon self - partiality , or self- exaggeration — but upon true , consistent self - knowledge , and self - respect . CHAPTER FOURTH . JOHN JAY . " The law Whereof 26 SUCCESS IN LIFE .
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Page 165 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Page 25 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 170 - I have been negligent of the duties of this day, the rest of the week has been unsuccessful and unhappy to my own secular employments; so that I could easily make an estimate of my successes in my own secular employments the week following, by the manner of my passing this day; and this I do not write lightly or inconsiderately, but upon a long and sound observation and experience.
Page 25 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge...
Page 168 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 163 - Here grows the Cure of all, this Fruit Divine, Fair to the Eye, inviting to the Taste, Of virtue to make wise: what hinders then To reach, and feed at once both Body and Mind...
Page 135 - There will be none such any more, till in some better age, true ambition or the love of fame prevails over avarice ; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the vantage ground...
Page 109 - For we are not sent into this world to do any thing into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously ; other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily : neither is to be done by halves or shifts, but with a will ; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all.
Page 16 - The characteristics of Mr. Mason's mind, as I think, were real greatness, strength, and sagacity. He was great through strong sense and sound judgment, great by comprehensive views of things, great by high and elevated purposes. Perhaps sometimes he was too cautious and refined, and his distinctions became too minute ; but his discrimination arose from a force of intellect, and quick-seeing, far-reaching sagacity, everywhere discerning his object and pursuing it steadily.
Page 26 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to...