 | Robert Cowtan - 1866 - 436 lehte
...I met with in the life of Fowel Buxton, to the following effect : " The longer I live the more am I certain that the great difference between men, —...powerful, the great and the insignificant, — is enerc/y, invincible determination, a, purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That talent can... | |
 | Charles Buxton - 1866 - 836 lehte
...bljUAltlE MEMOIRS OF SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON, BART. EDITED BY HIS SON, CHAELES BUXTON, ESQ., BA " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble nnd the powerful, the groat and the insignificant, is enfryy, — invincible determination, — a purpose... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 484 lehte
...He flutters from one egg to another ; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. — Feltham. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then The usefulness of forming and writing down good resolutions, depends ; and no talents, no circum- very... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1902 - 650 lehte
...for the future, and the commercial orchard will be a success. The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, between the...do anything that can be done in this world, and no talent, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a commercial orchard profitable without it. THE... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - 1868 - 386 lehte
...carried him in triumph to the final scene on the Appomattox. " The longer I live," said Fowell Buxton, " the more I am certain that the great difference between...fixed, and then death or victory ! That quality will do any thing that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1868 - 344 lehte
...all my prosperity in life have resulted from the change I made at your age." Elsewhere he says : " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...— a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory ! " MOSES THE PATRIOT. npAKE him for all in all, regard him not in one but many aspects, Moses is the... | |
 | 1869 - 420 lehte
...but there must be exercise to co-operate with it. " The longer I live," says Thos. Powell Buxton, " the more I am certain that the great difference between...fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will... | |
 | 1869 - 878 lehte
...FIXITY OF PURPOSE AND ITS RESULTS IN MKX OF EQUAL POWER. — The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, — between...purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That talent can do anything that can be done in this world, and no one can be a man without it. — (S'/r... | |
 | 1894 - 922 lehte
...the words of a very eminent man, who had a thorough knowledge of the affairs of the world and of men: "The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...insignificant, is energy, invincible determination, and a purpose well fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done... | |
 | 1870 - 618 lehte
...they should indelibly be impressed on the mind of a young Missionary, they are given again : — " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...great and the insignificant, is ENERGY — INVINCIBLE UEIEKMINATION — a purpose once fixed, and then death or rietory. That quality will do anything that... | |
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The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men — between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant — is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality... 
