Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, with Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers |
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... friend of the farmer . PROF . DAVID C. WELLS , B.A. , B.D. , Of Dartmouth College , Hanover , New Hampshire . Graduate of Phillips Academy , Yale , and Andover Seminary . After spending some time studying in Germany , he served as ...
... friend of the farmer . PROF . DAVID C. WELLS , B.A. , B.D. , Of Dartmouth College , Hanover , New Hampshire . Graduate of Phillips Academy , Yale , and Andover Seminary . After spending some time studying in Germany , he served as ...
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... friends and enjoyment , " or shall they rather be answered from a higher and broader standard , which has its foundation in righteousness and its end and purpose in the well - being of man and his eternal welfare ? Shall we enter and ...
... friends and enjoyment , " or shall they rather be answered from a higher and broader standard , which has its foundation in righteousness and its end and purpose in the well - being of man and his eternal welfare ? Shall we enter and ...
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... friendship , and love ! In the sight of heaven , what consum- mate folly it is to seek to perpetuate a name by building up glittering piles of gold in a world of much ignorance , vice , and suffering , without ever lifting a hand to ...
... friendship , and love ! In the sight of heaven , what consum- mate folly it is to seek to perpetuate a name by building up glittering piles of gold in a world of much ignorance , vice , and suffering , without ever lifting a hand to ...
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... friends , he would as yet have earned but a quarter of Jay Gould's mil- lions ! But this man , and others like him , are said to have earned their scores of millions within a score of years . Pre- posterous ! It can never be honestly ...
... friends , he would as yet have earned but a quarter of Jay Gould's mil- lions ! But this man , and others like him , are said to have earned their scores of millions within a score of years . Pre- posterous ! It can never be honestly ...
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... given much of intelligence , very much of opportunity for success , but who , to the grief of their friends , never succeed because they neglect or refuse to put forth sufficient effort 38 THE MAINSPRING OF SUCCESS .
... given much of intelligence , very much of opportunity for success , but who , to the grief of their friends , never succeed because they neglect or refuse to put forth sufficient effort 38 THE MAINSPRING OF SUCCESS .
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