Pushing to the Front: Or, Success Under Difficulties; a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty |
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Page 23 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me ? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward...
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Page 226 - These are traits, and measures, and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
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| Title | Pushing to the Front: Or, Success Under Difficulties; a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty |
| Author | Orison Swett Marden |
| Publisher | Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 312 pages |
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