Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...human life, but the knowledge of this misery, is increasing. The remedy for this is for men to be not paralyzed by it, but to be inspired by it to do all the good of which they are capable. A ministers life has its temptations, nor can all men succeed in the profession. But the man who fails must be compared not with his profession but with what he would be, were he in some other vocation. One cannot make an arrow-head out of a piece of putty...
...desirable, but not necessary to success. A soothing and composed manner, tack, and good judgment especially, are desirable. Successful lawyers are, as a rule, honest men. Great chances don't announce themselves before hand. You must have the thing on your mind all the time if you would succeed. The law is the place of thinkers, not often of poets or artists. To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists...
...should be adapted to the capacity of the man. Trite as this statement may appear, perhaps there is none that is usually less regarded in the choice of a profession. All about us we see men striving to become what nature never meant they should be. Accountants, who might succeed if they stuck to that for which they are fitted, become starving "poets." Men of good sense, capable of being good doctors or able lawyers, waste their store of intellect upon wretched attempts at humour. The most important thing has, in their choice, been disregarded...
...favorite study. What a lesson his life teaches. The death of such a man cannot pass without remark and honor. We owe to his memory at least a word of appreciation, for he has left to us in his life a high example of firm, unwavering determination to succeed...
...them, are once brought before us, we cannot but wonder how the claims of a foreign school can be preferred to those of our own. Our library, from a lack of funds to light it, has proved to be the most annoying of all our privileges, nor can we succeed even for a moment in driving the fact home, that it is absolutely useless to a large minority of the students and a cause of infinite care to the rest. We might cite a dozen cases as worthy of notice where a few dollars carefully expended would eradicate abuses which...