EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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Page 31
... success in conversation , the magic of liberty , which puts the world , like a ball , in our hands . How cheap even the liberty then seems ; how mean to study , when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave ...
... success in conversation , the magic of liberty , which puts the world , like a ball , in our hands . How cheap even the liberty then seems ; how mean to study , when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave ...
Page 53
... successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced . We do what we must , and call it by the best names we can , and would fain have the praise of having in- tended the ...
... successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced . We do what we must , and call it by the best names we can , and would fain have the praise of having in- tended the ...
Page 56
... successful labor . It is a tempest of fan- cies , and the only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour . Without any shadow of doubt , amidst this vertigo of shows and politics , I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed ...
... successful labor . It is a tempest of fan- cies , and the only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour . Without any shadow of doubt , amidst this vertigo of shows and politics , I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed ...
Page 61
... success . But ah ! presently comes a day , or is it only a half - hour , with its angel - whispering , -which discomfits the conclusions of nations and of years ! To - morrow again , everything looks real and angular , the habitual ...
... success . But ah ! presently comes a day , or is it only a half - hour , with its angel - whispering , -which discomfits the conclusions of nations and of years ! To - morrow again , everything looks real and angular , the habitual ...
Page 62
... success , there must not be too much design . A man will not be observed in doing that which he can do best . There is a certain magic about his proper- est action , which stupefies your powers of obser- vation , so that though it is ...
... success , there must not be too much design . A man will not be observed in doing that which he can do best . There is a certain magic about his proper- est action , which stupefies your powers of obser- vation , so that though it is ...
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