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Title: Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924
Subjects: Success
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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me opposition as a fulcrum: forceis always aggressive and crowds something. — Holmes. The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the moresignificant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. — Horace Bush- NELL. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circum-stances would have lain dormant. — Horace. For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adver-sity. — SiRACH. Though losses and crosses be lessons right severe, Theres wit there ye 11 get there, ye 11 find no other where. Burns. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. —Hazlitt. Adversity- is the prosperity of the great. No man ever worked his way in a dead calm. —John Neal. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. Many and many a time since, said Harriet Marti-neau, referring to her fathers failure in business, havewe said that, but for that loss of money, we might havelived on in the ordinary provincial method of ladies
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v;,; HiVf ;\T»,\;.? JOHN BUNYAN Sculptor of souls, I lift to Thee Encumbered heart and hands :Spare not tlie chisel, set nie free However dear the bands. USES OF OBSTACLES. 87 with small means, sewing and economizing and growingnarrower every year; whereas, by being thrown, whileit was yet time, on our own resources, we have workedhard and usefully, won friends, reputation, and inde-pendence, seen the world abundantly, abroad and athome ; in short, have truly lived instead of vegetating. I do believe God wanted a grand poem of thatman, said George Macdonald of Milton, and soblinded him that he might be able to write it. Two of the three greatest epic poets of the worldwere blind, — Homer and Milton; while the third,Dante, was in his later years nearly, if not altogether,blind. It almost seems as though some great charac-ters had been physically crippled in certain respectsso that they would not dissipate their energy, but con-centrate it all in one direction. I have been beaten, bu

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