Autobiography of Andrew CarnegieHoughton Mifflin, 1920 - 385 pages Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie - Popular Edition. |
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Page 304 - SHAKESPEARE Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwellingplace, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Page 292 - to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States...
Page 262 - That the objects of the corporation shall be to encourage, in the broadest and most liberal manner, investigation, research, and discovery, and the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind...
Page 13 - See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.
Page 214 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 265 - But scarce that word was breathed when one small hand Lifted victorious o'er a giant wrong That had its victims crushed through ages long ; Some woman set her pale and quivering face, Firm as a rock, against a man's disgrace; A little child suffered in silence lest His savage pain should wound a mother's breast; Some quiet scholar flung his gauntlet down And risked, in Truth's great name, the synod's frown ; A civic hero, in the calm realm of laws Did that which suddenly drew a world's applause;...
Page 304 - Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality ; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at.
Page 207 - Children of men ! the unseen Power, whose eye For ever doth accompany mankind, Hath looked on no religion scornfully That men did ever find. ' Which has not taught weak wills how much they can ? Which has not fall'n on the dry heart like rain ? Which has not cried to sunk, self-weary man : Thou must be born again...
Page 158 - Thirtythree and an income of $50,000 per annum! By this time two years I can so arrange all my business as to secure at least $50,000 per annum. Beyond this never earn — make no effort to increase fortune, but spend the surplus each year for benevolent purposes. Cast aside business forever, except for others. "Settle in Oxford and get a thorough education, making the acquaintance of literary men — this will take three years of active work — pay especial attention to speaking in public.
Page 86 - On that best portion of a good man's life, — His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.