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Title: Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924
Subjects: Success
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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he loved our country, and made our Kepublic the pat-tern for France. There is no grander sight in the world than that ofa young man fired with a great purpose, dominated byone unwavering aim. He is bound to win; the worldstands one side and lets him pass ; it always makesway for the man with a will in him. He does not haveone half the opposition to overcome that the undecided,purposeless man has who, like driftwood, runs againstall sorts of snags to which he must yield, because hehas no momentum to force them out pf his way. Whata sublime spectacle it is to see a youth going straightto his goal, cutting his way through difficulties, and sur-mounting obstacles, which dishearten others, as thoughthey were but stepping-stones ! Defeat, like a gymna-sium, only gives him new power; opposition onlydoubles his exertions; dangers only increase his cour-age. No matter what comes to him, sickness, poverty,disaster, he never turns his eye from his goal. Duos qui sequitur lepores, neutrum capit.
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VICTOR HUGO Every one is the son of his own works. Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe : it isa seed-grain that cannot die. CHAPTER VIT. SOWING AND REAPING. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, thatshall he also reap. — Galatians. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a charac-ter; sow a character, and you reap a destiny. — G. D. Boardman. Just as the twig is bent the tree s inclined. — Pope. How use doth breed a habit in a man. — Shakespeare. All habits gather, by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. Dryden. Infinite good comes from good habits which must result from the com-mon influence of example, intercourse, knowledge, and actual experience— morality taught by good morals. — Plato. The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are toostrong to be broken. — Samuel Johnson. Man is first startled by sin; then it becomes pleasing, then easy,

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