CHAPTER-18 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. —GALATIANSSow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.—G. D. BOARDMANJust as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined. —POPEHow use doth […]
CHAPTER-17 Nature, when she adds difficulties, adds brains.—EMERSONMany men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. —SPURGEONThe good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. —ROGERSAromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crushed or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. GOLDSMITHAs night
CHAPTER-16 The best way to settle the quarrel between capital and labour is by allopathic doses of Peter-Cooperism. —TALMAGEIn the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. —EMERSON“One ruddy drop of manly blood the surging sea outweighs.”Virtue alone out-builds the pyramids: Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall. —YOUNGHe
CHAPTER-15 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. —BIBLEThe first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself: to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. —PLATOThe worst education which
CHAPTER-14 When Moody first visited Ireland he was introduced by a friend to an Irish merchant who asked at once:“Is he an O.O.?”“Out and Out”—that was what “O.O.” stood for.“Out and Out” for God—that was what this merchant meant. He indeed is but a wooden man, and a poor stick at that, who is decided
CHAPTER-13 “Never give up, there are chances and changes, Helping the hopeful, a hundred to one; And, through the chaos, High Wisdom arranges Ever success, if you’ll only hold on. Never give up; for the wisest is boldest, Knowing that Providence mingles the cup, And of all maxims, the best, as the oldest, Is the
CHAPTER-12 What doth the poor man’s son inherit? Stout muscles, and a sinewy heart, A hardy frame, a hardier spirit! King of two hands he does his part In every useful toil and art: A heritage it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. Lowell.Has not God given every man a
Chapter-11 [ I.] There is no doubt that, as a rule, great decision of character is usually accompanied by great constitutional firmness. Men who have been noted for great firmness of character have usually been strong and robust. As a rule it is the strong physical man who carries weight and conviction. Take, as an
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Chapter-10 Oh, what miracles have been wrought by the self-confidence, the self-determination of an iron will! What impossible deeds have been performed by it! It was this that took Napoleon over the Alps in midwinter; it took Farragut and Dewey past the cannons, torpedoes, and mines of the enemy; it led Nelson and Grant to
Chapter-9 There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent, or hinder, or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it soon or late. What obstacle can stay the mighty force Of the sea-seeking river in its course, Or cause
Chapter-8 “The education of the will is the object of our existence,” says Emerson.Nor is this putting it too strongly, if we take into account the human will in its relations to the divine. This accords with the saying of J. Stuart Mill, that “a character is a completely fashioned will.”In respect to mere mundane
Chapter-7 “There’s the dearest little old gentleman,” says James Buckham, “who goes into town every morning on the 8.30 train. I don’t know his name, and yet I know him better than anybody else in town. He just radiates cheerfulness as far as you can see him. There is always a smile on his face,
Chapter-6 Acting on a sudden impulse, an elderly woman, the widow of a soldier who had been killed in the Civil War, went into a photographer’s to have her picture taken. She was seated before the camera wearing the same stern, hard, forbidding look that had made her an object of fear to the children
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Chapter-5 Dining one day with Baron James Rothschild, Eugene Delacroix, the famous French artist, confessed that, during some time past, he had vainly sought for a head to serve as a model for that of a beggar in a picture which he was painting; and that, as he gazed at his host’s features, the idea
Chapter-4 Ten things are necessary for happiness in this life, the first being a good digestion, and the other nine,—money; so at least it is said by our modern philosophers. Yet the author of “A Gentle Life” speaks more truly in saying that the Divine creation includes thousands of superfluous joys which are totally unnecessary