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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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and let thy heart cheer thee inthe da3s of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sightof thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring theeinto judgment. — Ecclesiastes. Man is a watch, wound up at first, but neverWound up again: once down hes down forever. Herrick. To live long it is necessary to live slowly. — Cicero.Old age seizes upon an ill-spent youth like fire upon a rotten house. —South.Last Sunday a young man died here of extreme old age at twenty-five. — John Newton. If 3^ou will not hear Reason, she 11 surely rap your knuckles. —PoorRichards Sayings. T is the sublime of man,Our noontide majesty, —to know ourselves,Part and proportion of a wondrous whole. Coleridge. Eh ! oh ! ah ! exclaimed Franklin ; what have Idone to merit these cruel sufferings ? Many things,replied the Gout; you have eaten and drunk too freely,and too much indulged those legs of yours in your indo-lence. Nature seldom presents her bill on the day you
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JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINENature demands that man be ever at the top of liis condition. He who violatesher laws must pay the penalty though he sit on a throne. NATURES LITTLE BILL. 307 violate her laws. But if 3^011 overdraw your account ather bank, and give her a mortgage on your body, besure she will foreclose. She may loan you all you want;but, like Shylock, she will demand the last ounce offlesh. She rarely brings in her cancer bill before thevictim is forty years old. She does not often annoy aman with her drink bill until he is past his prime, andthen presents it in the form of Brights disease, fattydegeneration of the heart, drunkards liver, or some sim-ilar disease. What you pay the saloon keeper is but asmall part of your score. You have also to settle withKature, and she takes your health, your life. ISTaturedoes not excuse man for weakness, incompetence, orignorance; she demands that he be ever at the top ofhis condition. We often hear it said that the age of miracles is past.W

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