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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... appearance , and of iden- tical opportunity , separated on this line . One is satisfied with a small office , a clerk's routine , so much of the world as he can see in his daily walks between his home and place of business . The other ...
... appearance , and of iden- tical opportunity , separated on this line . One is satisfied with a small office , a clerk's routine , so much of the world as he can see in his daily walks between his home and place of business . The other ...
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... appeared , and then , when his work was done , he would crouch by the kitchen fire ( for he had no money to buy lights ) , and read hour after hour , and , sometimes forgetting himself , he would read till the morning dawned . His ...
... appeared , and then , when his work was done , he would crouch by the kitchen fire ( for he had no money to buy lights ) , and read hour after hour , and , sometimes forgetting himself , he would read till the morning dawned . His ...
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... appeared in the religious world since the days of the Apostle Paul . For nearly sixty years he preached on an average fifteen sermons a week ; he wrote incessantly with his pen , and pub- lished hundreds of volumes of books , tracts ...
... appeared in the religious world since the days of the Apostle Paul . For nearly sixty years he preached on an average fifteen sermons a week ; he wrote incessantly with his pen , and pub- lished hundreds of volumes of books , tracts ...
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... were free scholar- ships . He started for that place , walking more than half the way from lack of money . When he arrived , worn , dusty , and seedy in appearance , he was told , to his 141 THE POWER OF PERSEVERANCE .
... were free scholar- ships . He started for that place , walking more than half the way from lack of money . When he arrived , worn , dusty , and seedy in appearance , he was told , to his 141 THE POWER OF PERSEVERANCE .
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... appearance , he was told , to his horror , that the free scholarships were all taken , and , alas ! he had no money to pay for tuition . He hung about the place on the verge of despair . He had come so near his haven , and now to fail ...
... appearance , he was told , to his horror , that the free scholarships were all taken , and , alas ! he had no money to pay for tuition . He hung about the place on the verge of despair . He had come so near his haven , and now to fail ...
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