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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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- strand,Of Gods occasions drifting by!Better with naked nerve to bearThe needles of this goading air.Than in the lap of sensual ease foregoThe godlike power to do, the godlike aim to know. Whittier.Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me,I have a soul that, like an ample shield,Can take in all, and verge enough for more. Dryden.There s a brave fellow! Theres a man of pluck!A man who s not afraid to say his say,Though a whole town s against him. Longfellow.Our greatest glor^- is not in never falling, but in rising every time wefall. —Confucius. Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;Nothings so hard but search will find it out. Herrick. The barriers are not yet erected which shall say to aspiring talent, Thus far and no farther. — Beethoven. Friends and comrades, said Pizarro, as he turnedtoward the south, after tracing with his sword upon thesand a line from east to west, on that side are toil.
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ANDREW JACKSONOld Hickory. Stick to your aim : tlie mongrels hold will slip,But only crowbars loose the bull-dogs grip. The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought thatnever wanders, — these are the masters of victory. CLEAR GRIT. 187 hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, anddeath ; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peruwith its riches ; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose,each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. Formy part, I go to the south. So saying, he crossed theline and was followed by thirteen Spaniards in armor.Thus, on the little island of Gallo in the Pacific, whenhis men were clamoring to return to Panama, didPizarro and his few volunteers resolve to stake theirlives upon the success of a desperate crusade againstthe powerful empire of the Incas. At the time theyhad not even a vessel to transport them to the countrythey wished to conquer. Is it necessary to add thatall difficulties yielded at last to such resolute

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