How to Get on in the World, Or a Ladder to Practical SuccessCosimo, Inc., 1. dets 2005 - 300 pages The old saying, "Marry in haste and repent at leisure," will never lose its force. Worse than the man whose selfishness keeps him a bachelor till death, is the young man, who, under an impulse he imagines to be an undying love, marries a girl as poor, weak, and selfish as himself.-from "Chapter VII: As to Marriage"Subtitled A Ladder to Practical Success, this little book is chock full of handy advice for a young man looking to make his way in the world... or at least in the world of 1895, when it was first published. Calhoun's guidance encompasses: .the importance of correct habits.the value of experience.selecting a calling.some of labor's compensations.patience and perseverance.and more.While some of its core counsel is timeless, this quaint work is a charming look back at a society that no longer exists.Also available from Cosimo Classics: Calhoun's Business Hints for Men and Women.American artist and writer ALFRED ROCHEFORT CALHOUN contributed photography, sketches, and articles to publications including Harper's Weekly and the Philadelphia Press. |
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... better for our having lived , we must begin the struggle with a high purpose , keeping ever before our minds the characters and methods of the noble men who have succeeded along the same lines . The young man beginning the battle of ...
... better for our having lived , we must begin the struggle with a high purpose , keeping ever before our minds the characters and methods of the noble men who have succeeded along the same lines . The young man beginning the battle of ...
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... better provi- sion for the uses of either private or public life , than a fair share of ordinary good sense guided by rectitude . Good sense , disciplined by ex- perience and inspired by goodness , issues in practical wisdom . Indeed ...
... better provi- sion for the uses of either private or public life , than a fair share of ordinary good sense guided by rectitude . Good sense , disciplined by ex- perience and inspired by goodness , issues in practical wisdom . Indeed ...
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... better to introduce his pupils into the more esoteric parts of his doctrine . And therefore I have always looked upon a man infected with the disorder of anti - romance as one who has lost the finest part of his nature and his best ...
... better to introduce his pupils into the more esoteric parts of his doctrine . And therefore I have always looked upon a man infected with the disorder of anti - romance as one who has lost the finest part of his nature and his best ...
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... better as they grow older , and improve with experience ; but this depends upon the width and depth and generousness of their nature . It is not men's faults that ruin them so much as the manner in which they conduct themselves after ...
... better as they grow older , and improve with experience ; but this depends upon the width and depth and generousness of their nature . It is not men's faults that ruin them so much as the manner in which they conduct themselves after ...
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... better ; no person was ever less corrupted by the knowledge of it . " A man's real character will always be more visible in his household than anywhere else ; and his practical wisdom will be better ex- hibited by the manner in which he ...
... better ; no person was ever less corrupted by the knowledge of it . " A man's real character will always be more visible in his household than anywhere else ; and his practical wisdom will be better ex- hibited by the manner in which he ...
Contents
As to Public Life | 109 |
The Need of Constant Effort | 118 |
Some of Labors Compensations | 127 |
Patience and Perseverance | 139 |
Success but Seldom Accidental | 157 |
Cultivate Observation and Judgment | 177 |
Singleness of Purpose | 190 |
A Sound Mind in a Sound Body | 228 |
The Value of Experience | 73 |
Selecting a Calling | 84 |
We Must Help Ourselves до | 90 |
Successful Farming | 101 |
Labor Creates the Only True Nobility | 247 |
The Successful Man is SelfMade | 257 |
Unselfishness and Helpfulness | 274 |
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Page 298 - If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough...
Page 68 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 298 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 81 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 63 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!