How to Get on in the World, Or a Ladder to Practical Success

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Cosimo, 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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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...
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