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Room at the Top: Or, How to Reach Succcess, Happiness, Fame and Fortune ... A. Craig No preview available - 2017 |
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acquaintance American amusement battle of Chickamauga become boat breach of etiquette Carey character Christian conversation CORNELIUS VANDERBILT diligence duties DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY Elihu employer enter father fortune friends Fulton Garfield gentleman George Peabody habits hand happiness hard heart HIRAM POWERS honor hope hour Hugh Miller idle ill-bred intellectual introduced Kabyle kind labor lady learned Letters of introduction living London look LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE man's manner means ment merchant mind monkey's paw Moody moral nature ness never noble offer once Oxford County passed passions Peabody person political poor position profession rich ROBERT FULTON rude Sanguine says secure siege of Corinth siege of Paris society soon soul spirit success taste things Thomas Carlyle thought tion truth wait Washburne wise worth young youth
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Page 87 - Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Page 114 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 51 - ... fearing the event ; let him not be intimidated by the cheerless beginnings of knowledge, by the darkness from which she springs, by the difficulties which hover around her, by the wretched habitations in which she dwells, by the want and sorrow which sometimes journey in her train ; but let him ever follow her as the Angel that guards him, and as the Genius of his life. She will bring him out at last into the light of day, and exhibit him to the world comprehensive in acquirements, fertile in...
Page 115 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Page 109 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Page 57 - One by one (bright gifts from Heaven) Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready too to let them go. One by one thy griefs shall meet thee, Do not fear an armed band ; One will fade as others greet thee, Shadows passing through the land. Do not look at life's long sorrow ; See how small each moment's pain ; God will help thee for to-morrow, Every day begin again. Every hour that fleets so slowly Has its task to do or bear ; Luminous the crown, and holy, If thou set each gem...
Page 98 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 57 - ONE by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall ; Some are coming, some are going ; Do not strive to grasp them all. One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each, Let no future dreams elate thee, Learn thou first what these can teach. One by one (bright gifts from Heaven) Joys are sent thee here below ; Take them readily when given, Ready too to let them go. One by one thy griefs...
Page 65 - And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Page 34 - For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty : and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.