The New Success : Marden's Magazine, Volume 5Lowrey-Marden, 1921 - Success |
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Page 59
... hard and try hard in every way to get on would be shocked if they could see a mental picture of themselves heading toward the poorhouse , in fact , as they are in thought . They do not know that by an inexorable law they head to- ward ...
... hard and try hard in every way to get on would be shocked if they could see a mental picture of themselves heading toward the poorhouse , in fact , as they are in thought . They do not know that by an inexorable law they head to- ward ...
Page 77
... hard that they'd need a rest , the world would be better off . There's altogether too much talking and too little doing . " A successful business man doesn't necessarily have to be a crook , and ninety - nine times out of a hundred he ...
... hard that they'd need a rest , the world would be better off . There's altogether too much talking and too little doing . " A successful business man doesn't necessarily have to be a crook , and ninety - nine times out of a hundred he ...
Page 85
... hard for him to explain just why such is the case . ' 93 " That's true , " Thurston agreed , " but it will mean ' good night ' to me from Mary Downes if she ever learns the truth ! " " Then you are keen on marrying Mary ? " Waters asked ...
... hard for him to explain just why such is the case . ' 93 " That's true , " Thurston agreed , " but it will mean ' good night ' to me from Mary Downes if she ever learns the truth ! " " Then you are keen on marrying Mary ? " Waters asked ...
Page 86
... hard times will come every little while ; that business panics may overtake him ; that sickness and accidents are liable at any time to cripple him , but he doesn't hesi- tate to move on ; he doesn't vizualize all sorts of ob- stacles ...
... hard times will come every little while ; that business panics may overtake him ; that sickness and accidents are liable at any time to cripple him , but he doesn't hesi- tate to move on ; he doesn't vizualize all sorts of ob- stacles ...
Page 87
... hard . ships have ever developed the giants of the race How do you think George Washington , or Ben Franklin , or Abe Lincoln or Christopher Columbus , or Robert Bruce would have regarded the barriers which you , perhaps right now , are ...
... hard . ships have ever developed the giants of the race How do you think George Washington , or Ben Franklin , or Abe Lincoln or Christopher Columbus , or Robert Bruce would have regarded the barriers which you , perhaps right now , are ...
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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?