Above Rubies
The best way to settle the quarrel between capital and labor is by allopathic doses of Peter-Cooperism. --TALMAGE. In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. --EMERS... At Once
Note the sublime precision that leads the earth over a circuit of 500,000,000 miles back to the solstice at the appointed moment without the loss of one second--no, not the millionth part of a second--for ages and ages of which i... Books And Success
Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. --SHAKESPEARE. Prefer knowledge to wealth; for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. --SOCRATES. If a man empties his purse... Courage
Quit yourselves like men. --1 SAMUEL iv. 9. Cowards have no luck. --ELIZABETH KULMAN. He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. --EMERSON. To dare is better than t... Dead In Earnest
It is the live coal that kindles others, not the dead. What made Demosthenes the greatest of all orators was that he appeared the most entirely possessed by the feelings he wished to inspire. The effect produced by Charles Fox, w... First Be A Man
The great need at this hour is manly men. We want no goody-goody piety; we have too much of it. We want men who will do right, though the heavens fall, who believe in God, and who will confess Him. --REV. W. J. DAWSON. ... Foundation Stones
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. --CICERO. How great soever a genius may be, ... certain it is that he will never shine in his full lustre, nor shed the full influence he is c... Guard Your Weak Point
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. --BIBLE. The first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself: to be conquered by himself is, of all... Hold Up Your Head
Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things. --TENNYSON. If there be a faith that can remove mountains, it is faith in one's own power. --MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH. ... How Did He Begin?
There can be no doubt that the captains of industry to-day, using that term in its broadest sense, are men who began life as poor boys. --SETH LOW. Poverty is very terrible, and sometimes kills the very soul within ... Live Upward
"Do what thou dost as if the stake were heaven, And this thy last deed ere the judgment day." If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest. --PUBLIUS SYRUS. What is a man, If his... Moral Sunshine
I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well. --SIDNEY SMITH. The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius. --WHIPPLE. This one sits shivering in fortune's smile, Taking... Out Of Place
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. --EMERSON. The art of putting the right man in the right place is perhaps ... Riches Without Wings
Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. --EPH. iv. I. Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. --SELDEN. Less coin, less care; to know how to dispense with wea... Sand
I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance. --SHAKESPEARE. Perseverance is a virtue That wins each god-like act, and plucks success E'en from the spear-proof crest o...

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