Conquering Success: Or, Life in EarnestHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 404 страница |
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ability achieve acquired asked battle become begin bodily brain brilliant calling career character Charles James Napier cheerfulness Cicero Claude Lorraine Daniel Webster defeat dollars earnest effort Emerson eminent energy faculties force fortune genius giant gifts Girondists Goethe habit hand hard heart hundred intellectual Jeremiah Mason JOHN WILLIAM KAYE Julius Cæsar knowledge labor lack lawyer learned Leonardo da Vinci less live look Lord Lord Chatham man's master ment mental mind moral Napoleon nature ness never once one's patience persistence persons poor profession pursuit ready reply Rufus Choate says secret shyness soul spirit spite strength struggle talent tells things Thomas Fowell Buxton thought thousand tion to-day toil triumph true turn University of Cambridge victory vigor waste worldly success writing wrote young youth
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