 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1900 - 344 pages
...have spoiled the best passage in " The Pleasures of Hope." Self-made men 3 — Well, yes. Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is...great deal better to be made in that way than not be made at all. Are any of you younger people old enough to remember that Irishman's house on the marsh... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...forms the man. k. GAY— The Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, An, and the Farmer. To a Mother. L. 9. Of course IOW HOLMES — The A ulocrat of the Breakfast Table. LI The true purpose of education is to cherish... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1899 - 1284 pages
...the teacher who is willing to lessen the distance between himself and his ideal by unceasing eflort, by deeds rather than words. We have too many lamentable...likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal bettetto be made in that way than not to be made at all. Are any of you younger people old enough to... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...BreatfaH-Table. i. People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. ibid. Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is...to be made in that way than not to be made at all. ibid. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. ibid. «. There is that glorious... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...Table, i. People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. JIM. Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is...to be made in that way than not to be made at all. n>u. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. n,;,i. ri. There is that glorious... | |
 | Northampton (Mass.) - 1905 - 566 pages
...gtvcngtb — SCRIPTURE A GOOD NAME A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. — BIBLE Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is...to be made in that way than not to be made at all. — HOLMES In the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. LONGFKLLOW Good men must... | |
 | California - 1905 - 120 pages
...and its case is uncommonly hard — Will continue to work, though it strikes. Thomas Hood. Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is...to be made in that way than not to be made at all. Oliver Wendell Holmes. It is said that curiosity is a potent motive with what used to be called the... | |
 | Mormon Church - 1906 - 602 pages
...pharisaical conceit would not permit them to doubt. FRAGMENTS. Self-made men? — Well, yea. Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is...great deal better to be made in that way than not be made at all. Are any of you younger people old enough to remember that Irishman's house on the marsh... | |
 | Albert William Mann - Boston (Mass.) - 1917 - 610 pages
...too. We give just a few quotations. "Sin has many tools, but a lie is a handle that fits them all." "Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is...be made in that way, than not to be made at all." "I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...forms the man. GAT — The Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and the Farmer. To a Mother. L. 9. 8 Of course II. Sc. 1. Never the time and the place And the loved...together. ROBERT BROWNING — Never the Time and the Pla HOLMES— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. L. 1. t The true purpose of education is to cherish... | |
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Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that, way than not to be made at all. 
