The New Success : Marden's Magazine, Volume 5Lowrey-Marden, 1921 - Success |
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... ability not be selling at a price to yield as much as 16 per cent , if there was definite assurance that they would be paid off at par upon maturity . No , we think there is a considerable element of business risk in these bonds ...
... ability not be selling at a price to yield as much as 16 per cent , if there was definite assurance that they would be paid off at par upon maturity . No , we think there is a considerable element of business risk in these bonds ...
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... ability to speak and write clearly , convincingly , and correctly has a powerful influence on your success . Yet the average person is , by actual test , only 61 per cent . efficient in the essentials of correct English . Old Methods ...
... ability to speak and write clearly , convincingly , and correctly has a powerful influence on your success . Yet the average person is , by actual test , only 61 per cent . efficient in the essentials of correct English . Old Methods ...
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... ability of Pace Institute to teach you Accountancy by mail . Pace graduates - numbers of them Extension - educated - are making good as accountants and executives everywhere . Most of them upon enrolment were stenographers , bookkeepers ...
... ability of Pace Institute to teach you Accountancy by mail . Pace graduates - numbers of them Extension - educated - are making good as accountants and executives everywhere . Most of them upon enrolment were stenographers , bookkeepers ...
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... abilities you may possess lie dormant ; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever ... ability to move the minds of other people ? If you are a sales- man this is preeminently so . Even if you are a ...
... abilities you may possess lie dormant ; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever ... ability to move the minds of other people ? If you are a sales- man this is preeminently so . Even if you are a ...
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... ability that counts in the end . Nobody ever tried harder than I have . Nobody has ever given it a tougher fight . I've had the spirit , desire , ambition , and everything that goes with a business equipment , but the main essential ...
... ability that counts in the end . Nobody ever tried harder than I have . Nobody has ever given it a tougher fight . I've had the spirit , desire , ambition , and everything that goes with a business equipment , but the main essential ...
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Popular passages
Page 68 - I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Page 48 - THE day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonoured, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
Page 33 - Let me live in a house by the side of the road Where the race of men go by — The men who are good and the men who are bad As good and as bad as I. I would not sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban, Let me live in the house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Page 129 - ... rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus that you can know that you have done what it lay in you to do — can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.
Page 22 - Why should I wish to see God better than this day ? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go, Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
Page 104 - Prof. Alonzo Clark, MD, of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, says: "All of our curative agents are poisons, and, as a consequence, every dose diminishes the patient's vitality.
Page 129 - No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen — to dig by the divining rod for springs which he may never reach.
Page 72 - Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess.
Page 68 - None other can pain me as you, dear, can do ; None other can please me or praise me as you. Remember the world will be quick with its blame, If shadow or stain ever darken your name, "Like mother like son," is a saying so true The world will judge largely of "Mother
Page 47 - A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?