| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1891 - 1050 pages
...ever been able to reach in their admiration. I cannot conceive that other old men feel differently. Of course I cannot demonstrate what I say ; but I...and I am sure I was never ungenerously thrust back. There is abundant evidence that Lincoln only expressed the popular impression in thus placing himself... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 544 pages
...ever been able to reach in their admiration. I cannot conceive that other old men feel differently. Of course, I cannot demonstrate what I say ; but I...and I am sure I was never ungenerously thrust back." The man who thus counseled petulant youth with the experienced calmness of age was thirty-nine years... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...ever been able to reach in their admiration. I cannot conceive that other old men feel differently. Of course, I cannot demonstrate what I say; but I...and I am sure I was never ungenerously thrust back." The man who thus counseled petulant youth with the experienced calmness of age was thirty-nine years... | |
| William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 406 pages
...have ever been able to reach in their admiration. I cannot conceive that other men feel differently. Of course I cannot demonstrate what I say ; but I...was never ungenerously thrust back. I hardly know 0 2/2 THE LIFE OF LINCOLN. what to say. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every... | |
| David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...falter who thinks he is right" XX "All that I am, all that I hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." XX "The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself...never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him." XX " Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation." XX "Every man is said to have... | |
| David Decamp Thompson - Presidents - 1894 - 250 pages
...falter who thinks he ifl right* XX "All that I am, all that I hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." XX "The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself...never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him." XX "Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation." XX "Every man is said to have... | |
| Theology - 1906 - 336 pages
...of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion should ever be adopted. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself...never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. The leading rule for the lawyer is diligence. Extemporaneous speaking is the lawyer's avenue to the... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 256 pages
...men. I am therefore hostile to anything that tends to their debasement." To Rise, Improve Yourself. " The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself...never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him." Letter to Judge Herndon, July, 1848. Stand with the Right ! " Stand with anybody that stands right.... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 pages
...ever been able to reach in their admiration. I cannot conceive that other old men feel differently. Of course I cannot demonstrate what I say ; but I...way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to binder him. Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1907 - 114 pages
...as to be worth the keeping in all future time. TWELF TH What there is of me is self-made. THIRTEENTH I was young once, and I am sure I was never ungenerously thrust back. FO URT EEN TH Thank God for not making me a woman, but if He had, I suppose He would have made me just... | |
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