 | John Murdoch - 1875 - 366 pages
...will. The following remarks of Buxton should be deeply impressed upon the mind of every young man : " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...great and the insignificant, is ENERGY, INVINCIBLE DETERMINATION — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...convenient vehicle of good sense. — S. Smith. EARNESTNESS — The Quality of The longer I live, the mure I am certain that the great difference between men...the powerful, the great and the insignificant — is earnestness, invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory! This quality... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 pages
...perseveringly is pretty certain. 'The longer I live,' says an eminent writer, 'the more I am convinced that the great difference between men — between...great and the insignificant — is energy, invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that... | |
 | William Francis Pringle Noble - 1876 - 628 pages
...and all my prosperity in life have resulted from the change I made at your age." Elsewhere he says, " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory I" VIII. JOB. E have heard of the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 448 pages
...own words, which every young man might well stamp upon his soul : " The longer I live," said he, " the more I am certain that the great difference between...great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory ! That quality will do anything that... | |
 | a. carrington - 1876 - 852 pages
...is nothing more despicable than the man who despises everybody else. Fíiwell Buxton said : " ТЬн longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between metí — between the feeble and the powerful, tbe great and the insignificant — is energy — invincible... | |
 | John Brookes (F.G.S.) - 1877 - 120 pages
...trifling, dawdling, twaddling creature ! The finest words Sir Fowell Buxton ever uttered were these : — " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory ! That quality will do anything that... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 542 pages
..."The main difference between the great and the insignificant is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then — death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in the world." That quality Curran possessed, and with him the struggle ended... | |
 | William Walker Atkinson - 1906 - 166 pages
...matter. Buxton said: "The longer I live, the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy and invincible determination — a purpose once fixed and then Death or Victory. That quality will... | |
 | Sheldon Leavitt - 1907 - 262 pages
...general body of the medical profession. But this consideration ought not to deter us. Buxton wisely says: "The longer I live the more I am certain that the...men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great knd the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination; a purpose once fixed, and, then, death... | |
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The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality... 
