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Money: how to get, how to keep, and how to use it - Page 116
by Money - 1853
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 17

1853 - 640 pages
...chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date ; but it does not seem to improve by age. 6. Do not scatter your powers. — Engage in one kind...can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centred on one object, his mind will continually be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]., Volume 3

Robert Kemp Philp - 432 pages
...chickens before they are hatched," is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. Do not scatter your powers. — Engage in one kind...it A constant hammering on one nail will generally drire it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on...
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The Christian's penny magazine, and friend of the people [ed. by J. Campbell ...

Congregational union of England and Wales - 1852 - 698 pages
...to improve by age. «. Do not scatter ¡/our powers. Engage in one kind of business only, and etiek to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude...suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if hi; brain were occupied by a dozen different subjects at once. Лапу a fortune has slipped through...
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A practical treatise on Business: or, how to get, save, give, lend and ...

Edwin Troxell FREEDLY - 1853 - 370 pages
...man as the latter. 5th. Let hope predominate, but be not too visionary. — Many persons are alway kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project...nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it cannot be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will continually...
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Life of P. T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 426 pages
...chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. 6. Do not scatter your powers. Engage in one kind of...can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centred on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape...
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The Autobiography of P.T. Barnum: Clerk, Merchant, Editor, and Showman

Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 180 pages
...chickens before they are hatehed" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. 0. Do not scatter your powers. Engage in one kind of...can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centred on one object, llis mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape...
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The life of P.T. Barnum, by himself. Author's ed

Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 396 pages
...chickens before they are hatched " is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. 6. Do not scatter your powers. Engage in one kind of...can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centred on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape...
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The autobiography of P.T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 168 pages
...chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. 6. Do not scatter your powers. Engage in one kind of...hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at lost, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centred on one object, his mind...
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Barnum, the Yankee showman, and prince of humbugs. Written by himself

Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 184 pages
...only, and stiek to it faithfully until you sueeeed, or until you eonelnde to abandon it. A eonstant hammering on one nail, will generally drive it home at last, so that it ean be elinehed. When a man's undivided attention is eentred on one objeet, his mind »ill eonstantly...
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A Second Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pages
...chickens before they are hatched " is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. Do not scatter your powers. Engage in one kind of...can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centred on one object, his mind will continually be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape...
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