The New Success : Marden's Magazine, Volume 5Lowrey-Marden, 1921 - Success |
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... seemed to me , " she said , " as if I were a little bird whom the Lord had placed in a cage , and that I had now nothing to do but sing . The song of my heart gave a brightness to the objects round me . The stones of my prison looked in ...
... seemed to me , " she said , " as if I were a little bird whom the Lord had placed in a cage , and that I had now nothing to do but sing . The song of my heart gave a brightness to the objects round me . The stones of my prison looked in ...
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... seemed to sap my strength . I found a side door . It opened under my hand and I entered . The woman who had sent for me was alone in a room on the lower floor . I knew she had no servant , and so did not knock or summon her to the door ...
... seemed to sap my strength . I found a side door . It opened under my hand and I entered . The woman who had sent for me was alone in a room on the lower floor . I knew she had no servant , and so did not knock or summon her to the door ...
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... seemed to guess what I was thinking . " He frightened me , and I felt a little sick , Doctor Price , " she said . " I told him you had advised me to avoid shock or fright . He laughed outright at that , and said : ' Sooner you go , the ...
... seemed to guess what I was thinking . " He frightened me , and I felt a little sick , Doctor Price , " she said . " I told him you had advised me to avoid shock or fright . He laughed outright at that , and said : ' Sooner you go , the ...
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... seemed to sense the fact , which only added to his discomfiture . " Sit down , son , " said Harrington not unkindly , and the boy did so with something of a sense of relief . " Where on earth did you get those clothes ? " he asked in a ...
... seemed to sense the fact , which only added to his discomfiture . " Sit down , son , " said Harrington not unkindly , and the boy did so with something of a sense of relief . " Where on earth did you get those clothes ? " he asked in a ...
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... seemed to prosper out of proportion to their worth , while others have appeared to toil beyond the limit of their strength to earn less than a decent living . " But as a result of criticizing these conditions , public opinion has jumped ...
... seemed to prosper out of proportion to their worth , while others have appeared to toil beyond the limit of their strength to earn less than a decent living . " But as a result of criticizing these conditions , public opinion has jumped ...
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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?