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O.S.MARDEN - AN IRON WILL: Hidden Force Behind Success, Power & Unbreakable Determination - Orison Swett Marden · SECRETS OF SUCCESS & WEALTH: Hidden Laws of Money, Power & Success

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  Speaker 1: An iron Will by Orizon Sweat Martin nineteen o one,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, Training the Will. The education of the will
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  Speaker 1: is the object of our existence, says Emerson. Nor is
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  Speaker 1: this putting it too strongly If we take into account
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  Speaker 1: the human will in its relations to the divine this
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  Speaker 1: accords with the saying of J. Stuart Mill that a
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  Speaker 1: character is a completely fashioned will in respect to mere
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  Speaker 1: mundane relations. The development and discipline of one's will power
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  Speaker 1: is of supreme moment in relation to success in life.
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  Speaker 1: No man can ever estimate the power of will. It
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  Speaker 1: is a part of the divine nature, all of a
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  Speaker 1: peace with the power of creation. We speak of God's fiat.
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  Speaker 1: Fiat lux let light be man has his fiat. The
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  Speaker 1: achievements of history have been the choices, the determinations, the
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  Speaker 1: creations of the human will. It was the will, quiet
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  Speaker 1: or pugnacious, gentle or grim of men like Wilberforce and Garrison,
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  Speaker 1: good Year, in cyrus Field, Bismarck and Grant, that made
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  Speaker 1: them indomitable. They simply would do what they planned. Such
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  Speaker 1: men can no more be stopped than the sun can
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  Speaker 1: be or the tide. Most men fail, not through lack
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  Speaker 1: of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of
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  Speaker 1: dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. It is impossible,
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  Speaker 1: says Charmon, to look into the conditions under which the
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  Speaker 1: battle of life is being fought without perceiving how much
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  Speaker 1: really depends upon the extent to which the will power
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  Speaker 1: is cultivated, strengthened, and made operative in right directions. Young
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  Speaker 1: people need to go into training for it. We live
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  Speaker 1: in an age of athletic meets. Those who are determined
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  Speaker 1: to have athletic will power must take for it the
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  Speaker 1: kind of exercise they need. This is well illustrated by
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  Speaker 1: a report I have seen of the long race for
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  Speaker 1: marathon in the recent Olympian Games, which was won by
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  Speaker 1: the young Greek peasant Sir Tyrios Lose a struggle in
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  Speaker 1: the race of life. There had been no great parade
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  Speaker 1: about the training of this champion runner. From his work
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  Speaker 1: at the plow, he quietly betook himself to the task
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  Speaker 1: of making Greece victorious before the assembled strangers from every land.
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  Speaker 1: He was known to be a good runner, and without
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  Speaker 1: fuss or bustle, he entered himself as a competitor. But
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  Speaker 1: it was not his speed alone out distancing every rival.
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  Speaker 1: That made the young Greek stand out from among his fellows.
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  Speaker 1: That day, when he left his cottage home at Amrousi,
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  Speaker 1: his father said to him, Sir Tyri, you must only
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  Speaker 1: return a victor. The light of a firm resolve shone
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  Speaker 1: in the young man's eye. The old father was sure
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  Speaker 1: that his boy would win, and so he made his
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  Speaker 1: way to the station there to wait till Sir Tyro
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  Speaker 1: should come in ahead of all the rest. No one
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  Speaker 1: knew the old man and his three daughters as they
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  Speaker 1: elbowed their way through the crowd. When at last the
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  Speaker 1: excitement of the assembled multitude told that the critical moment
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  Speaker 1: had arrived, that the racers were nearing the goal. The
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  Speaker 1: old father looked up through eyes that were a little
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  Speaker 1: dim as he realized that, truly so Tyrite was leading
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  Speaker 1: the way. He was returning a victor. How the crowd
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  Speaker 1: surged about the young peasant when the race was fairly won,
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  Speaker 1: wild with excitement, they knew not how to shower upon
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  Speaker 1: him sufficient praise. Ladies overwhelmed him with flowers and rings.
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  Speaker 1: Some even gave him their watches, and one American lady
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  Speaker 1: bestowed upon him her jeweled smelling bottle. The princes embraced him,
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  Speaker 1: and the king himself saluted him in military fashion. But
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  Speaker 1: the young Soterios was seeking for other praise than theirs.
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  Speaker 1: Past the ranks of royalty in fair maidenhood, passed the
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  Speaker 1: outstretched hands of his own countrymen, past the applauding crowd
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  Speaker 1: of foreigners. His gaze wandered till it fell upon an
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  Speaker 1: old man, trembling with eagerness, who resolutely pushed his way
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  Speaker 1: through the excited, satisfied throng. Then the young face lighted,
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  Speaker 1: and as old lows advanced to the innermost circle, with
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  Speaker 1: arms outstretched to embrace his boy, the young victor said, simply,
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  Speaker 1: you see, father, I have obeyed mental discipline. The athlete
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  Speaker 1: trains for his race, and the mind must be put
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  Speaker 1: into training if one will win life's race. It is,
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  Speaker 1: says Professor Matthews, only by continued, strenuous efforts, repeated again
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  Speaker 1: and again, day after day, week after week, and month
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  Speaker 1: after month, that the ability can be acquired to fasten
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  Speaker 1: the mind to one subject, however abstract or noddy, to
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  Speaker 1: the exclusion of everything else. The process of obtaining this
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  Speaker 1: self mastery, this complete command of one's mental powers, is
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  Speaker 1: a gradual one, its length varying with the mental constitution
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  Speaker 1: of each person, but its acquisition is worth infinitely more
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  Speaker 1: than the utmost labor it ever costs. Perhaps the most
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  Speaker 1: valuable result of all education, it was said by Professor Huxley,
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  Speaker 1: is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
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  Speaker 1: have to do when it ought to be done, whether
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  Speaker 1: you like it or not. It is the first lesson
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  Speaker 1: which ought to be learned, and however early a man's
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  Speaker 1: training begins, it is probably the last lesson which he
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  Speaker 1: learns thoroughly doing things. Once, when Henry Ward Beecher was
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  Speaker 1: asked how it was that he could accomplish so much
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  Speaker 1: more than other men, he replied, I don't do more,
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  Speaker 1: but less than other people. They do all their work
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  Speaker 1: three times over, once in anticipation, once in actuality, once
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  Speaker 1: in rumination. I do mine in actuality alone, doing it
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  Speaker 1: once instead of three times. This was by the intelligent
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  Speaker 1: exercise of mister Beecher's will power in concentrating his mind
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  Speaker 1: upon what he was doing at a given moment, and
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  Speaker 1: then turning to something else. Any One who has observed
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  Speaker 1: business men closely has noticed this characteristic. One of the
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  Speaker 1: secrets of a successful life is to be able to
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  Speaker 1: hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus
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  Speaker 1: all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one
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  Speaker 1: place or thing, centralizing force. The mental reservoir of most
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  Speaker 1: people is like a leaky dam which we sometimes see
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  Speaker 1: in the country, where the greater part of the water
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  Speaker 1: flows out without going over the wheel and doing the
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  Speaker 1: work of the mill. The habit of mind wandering, of
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  Speaker 1: worrying about this and that genius, that power which dazzles
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  Speaker 1: mortal eyes is oft but perseverance in disguise. Many a
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  Speaker 1: man would have been a success had he connected his
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  Speaker 1: fragmentary efforts. Spasmodic disconnected attempts without concentration, uncontrolled by any
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  Speaker 1: fixed idea, will never bring success. It is continuity of
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  Speaker 1: purpose alone that achieves results. Learning to swim, the way
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  Speaker 1: to learn to run is to run. The way to
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  Speaker 1: learn to swim is to swim. The way to learn
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  Speaker 1: to develop will power is by the actual exercise of
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  Speaker 1: will power in the business of life. The man that
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  Speaker 1: exercises his will, says an English essayist, makes it a
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  Speaker 1: stronger and more effective force in proportion to the extent
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  Speaker 1: to which such exercise is intelligently and perseveringly maintained. The
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  Speaker 1: fourth putting of will power is a means of strengthening
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  Speaker 1: will power. The will become strong by exercise. To stick
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  Speaker 1: to a thing till you are master is a test
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  Speaker 1: of intellectual discipline and power, Doctor Coiler. It is astonishing,
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  Speaker 1: says doctor Theodore Koyler, how many men lack this power
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  Speaker 1: of holding on until they reach the goal. They can
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  Speaker 1: make a sudden dash, but they lack grit. They are
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  Speaker 1: easily discouraged. They get on as long as everything goes smoothly,
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  Speaker 1: but when there is friction, they lose heart. They depend
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  Speaker 1: on stronger personalities for their spirit and strength. They lack
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  Speaker 1: independence or originality. They only dare to do what others do.
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  Speaker 1: They do not step boldly from the crowd and act
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  Speaker 1: fearlessly the big trees. What is needed by him who
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  Speaker 1: would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning.
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  Speaker 1: He is to accumulate reserved power that he may be
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  Speaker 1: equal to all emergencies. Thomas Starr King said that the
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  Speaker 1: great trees of California gave him his first impression of
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  Speaker 1: the power of reserve. It was the thought of the
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  Speaker 1: reserve energies that had been compacted into them. He said
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  Speaker 1: that stirred me. The mountains had given them their iron
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  Speaker 1: and rich stimulants. The hills had given them their soil.
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  Speaker 1: The clouds had given their rain and snow, and a
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  Speaker 1: thousand summers and winters had poured forth their treasures about
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  Speaker 1: their vast roots. No young man can hope to do
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  Speaker 1: anything above the commonplace who has not made his life
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  Speaker 1: a reservoir of power on which he can constantly draw,
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  Speaker 1: which will never fail him in any emergency. Be sure
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  Speaker 1: that you have stored away in your powerhouse the energy,
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  Speaker 1: the knowledge that will be equal to the great occasion
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  Speaker 1: when it comes. If I were twenty and had but
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  Speaker 1: ten years to live, said a great scholar and writer,
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  Speaker 1: I would spend the first nine years accumulating knowledge, getting
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  Speaker 1: ready for the tenth I will. There are no two
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  Speaker 1: words in the English language which stand out in bolder relief,
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  Speaker 1: like kings upon a chequerboard, to so great an extent
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  Speaker 1: as the words I will. There is strength, depth and solidity, decision,
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  Speaker 1: confidence and power, determination, vigor and individuality. In the round,
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  Speaker 1: ringing tone which characterizes its delivery, it talks to you
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  Speaker 1: of triumph over difficulties, of victory in the face of discouragement,
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  Speaker 1: of will to promise and strength to perform, of lofty
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  Speaker 1: and daring enterprise, of unfettered aspirations, and of the thousand
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  Speaker 1: and one solid impulses by which man masters impediments in
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  Speaker 1: the way of progression. As one has well said, he
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  Speaker 1: who is silent is forgotten. He who does not advance
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  Speaker 1: falls back. He who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed. He
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  Speaker 1: who ceases to become greater becomes smaller. He who leaves
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  Speaker 1: off gives up. The stationary is the beginning of the end.
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  Speaker 1: It precedes death. To live is to achieve two will
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  Speaker 1: without ceasing. Be thou a hero, let thy might tramp on.
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  Speaker 1: Eternal snows its way, and through the ebben walls of
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  Speaker 1: night h e w down a passage unto day park Benjamin,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, The Rulers of Destiny. There is no chance,
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  Speaker 1: no destiny, No fate can circumvent or hinder or control.
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  Speaker 1: The firm resolve of a determined soul gifts count. For
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  Speaker 1: nothing will alone is great. All things give way before
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  Speaker 1: it soon or late. What obstacle can stay the mighty
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  Speaker 1: force of the sea seeking river in its course, or
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  Speaker 1: cause the ascending orb of day to wait. Each well
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  Speaker 1: born soul must win what it deserves. Let the fool
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  Speaker 1: prate of luck. The fortunate is he whose earnest purpose
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  Speaker 1: never swerves, whose slightest action or inaction serves the one
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  Speaker 1: great aim Ellow Wheeler Wilcox. There is always room for
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  Speaker 1: a man of force Emerson. The king is the man
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  Speaker 1: who can carlyle a strong, defiant purpose, is many handed,
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  Speaker 1: and lays hold of whatever is near that can serve it.
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  Speaker 1: It has a magnetic power that draws to itself whatever
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  Speaker 1: is kindred T. T. Monger. What is will power looked
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  Speaker 1: at in a large way? But energy of character, energy
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  Speaker 1: of will self originating force is the soul of every
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  Speaker 1: great character. Where it is there is life. Where it
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  Speaker 1: is not, there is faintness, helplessness, and despondency. Let it
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  Speaker 1: be your first study to teach the world that you
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  Speaker 1: are not wood and straw, that there is some iron
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  Speaker 1: in you. Men who have left their mark upon the
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  Speaker 1: world have been men of great and prompt decision. The
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  Speaker 1: achievements of will power are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything
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  Speaker 1: seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough
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  Speaker 1: and long enough. One talent with a will behind it
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  Speaker 1: will accomplish more than ten without it. As a thimbleful
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  Speaker 1: of powder in a rifle, the bore of whose barrel
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  Speaker 1: will give it direction, will do greater execution than a
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  Speaker 1: carload burned in the open air. The wills, the wonts,
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  Speaker 1: and the cans. There are three kinds of people in
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  Speaker 1: the world, says a recent writer, the wills, the won'ts,
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  Speaker 1: and the cans. The first accomplish everything, the second oppose everything,
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  Speaker 1: the third fail in everything. The shores of fortune, as
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  Speaker 1: Foster says, are covered with the stranded wrecks of men
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  Speaker 1: of brilliant ability, but who have wanted courage, faith, and decision,
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  Speaker 1: and have therefore perished in sight of more resolute but
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  Speaker 1: less capable adventurers who succeeded in making port. Were I
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  Speaker 1: called upon to express in a word the secret of
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  Speaker 1: so many failures among those who started out with high hopes,
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  Speaker 1: I should say they lacked will power. They could not
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  Speaker 1: half will. And what is a man without a will?
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  Speaker 1: He is like an engine without steam. Genius unexecuted is
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  Speaker 1: no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a
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  Speaker 1: forest of oaks. Will has been called the spinal column
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  Speaker 1: of personality. The will, in its relation to life, says
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  Speaker 1: an English writer, may be compared at once to the
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  Speaker 1: rudder and to the steam engine of a vessel, on
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  Speaker 1: the confined and related action of which it depends entirely
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  Speaker 1: for the direction of its course and the vigor of
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  Speaker 1: its movement. Strength of will is the test of a
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  Speaker 1: young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold
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  Speaker 1: whatever he undertakes with an iron grip? It is the
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  Speaker 1: iron grip that takes and holds. What chance is there
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  Speaker 1: in this crowding, pushing, selfish, greedy world, where everything is
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  Speaker 1: pusher or pushed for a young man with no will,
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  Speaker 1: no grip on life. The man who would forge to
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  Speaker 1: the front in this competitive age must be a man
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  Speaker 1: of prompt and determined decision, a tailor's needle. It is
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  Speaker 1: in one of ben Jonson's old plays, when I once
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  Speaker 1: take the humor of a thing, I am like your
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  Speaker 1: tailor's NEEDLELEYE go through with it. This is not different
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  Speaker 1: from Richelieu, who said, when I have once taken a resolution,
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  Speaker 1: I go straight to my aim. I overthrow all, I
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  Speaker 1: cut down all. And in business affairs, the counsel of
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  Speaker 1: rothschild is to the same effect, do without fail, that
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  Speaker 1: which you determine to do. Gladstone's children were taught to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish to the end whatever they might begin, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how insignificant the undertaking might be. What is worse than rashness,
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  Speaker 1: It is irresolution that is worse than rashness. He that shoots,
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  Speaker 1: says Feltham, may sometimes hit the mark, but he that
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  Speaker 1: shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution is
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  Speaker 1: like an egg you. It shakes not this nor that limb,
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  Speaker 1: but all the body is at once in a fit.
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  Speaker 1: The man who is forever twisting and turning, backing and filling,
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  Speaker 1: hesitating and dawdling, shuffling and parleying, weighing and balancing, splitting
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  Speaker 1: hairs over non essentials, listening to every new mo motive
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  Speaker 1: which presents itself, will never accomplish anything but the positive man,
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  Speaker 1: the decided man, is a power in the world and
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  Speaker 1: stands for something. You can measure him and estimate the
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  Speaker 1: work that his energy will accomplish. Opportunity is coy is
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  Speaker 1: swift is gone before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent,
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  Speaker 1: or the careless can seize her vigilance in watching opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: said Phelps. Tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force
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  Speaker 1: and persistence, in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement.
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  Speaker 1: These are the martial virtues which must command success. The
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  Speaker 1: best men, remark Chapin, are not those who have waited
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  Speaker 1: for chances, but who have taken them, besieged the chance,
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  Speaker 1: conquered the chance, and made chance the servitor. Is it
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  Speaker 1: not possible to classify successes and failures by their various
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  Speaker 1: degrees of will power. A man who can resolve vigorously
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  Speaker 1: upon a course of action and turns neither to the
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  Speaker 1: right nor to the left, though a paradise tempt him
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  Speaker 1: who keeps his eyes upon the goal, whatever distracts him
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  Speaker 1: is sure of success. Not every vessel that sails from
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  Speaker 1: Tarsish will bring back the gold of Opher. But shall
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  Speaker 1: it therefore rot in the harbor? No give its sails
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  Speaker 1: to the wind. Conscious power. Conscious power, says Mels, exists
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  Speaker 1: within the mind of everyone. Sometimes its existence is unrealized,
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  Speaker 1: but it is there. It is there to be developed
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  Speaker 1: and brought forth, like the culture of that obstinate but
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  Speaker 1: beautiful flower, the orchid, to allow it to remain dormant
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  Speaker 1: is to place one's self in obscurity, to trample on
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  Speaker 1: one's ambition, to smother one's faculties. To develop it is
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  Speaker 1: to individualize all that is best within you and give
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  Speaker 1: it to the world. It is by an absolute knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of yourself the proper estimate of your own value. There
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  Speaker 1: is hardly a reader, says an experienced educator, who will
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  Speaker 1: not be able to recall the early life of at
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  Speaker 1: least one young man whose childhood was spent in poverty,
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  Speaker 1: and who in boyhood expressed a firm desire to secure
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  Speaker 1: a higher education. If a little later that desire became
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  Speaker 1: a declared resolve, soon the avenues opened to that end.
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  Speaker 1: That desire and resolve created an atmosphere which attracted the
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  Speaker 1: forces necessary to the attainment of the purpose. Many of
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  Speaker 1: these young men will tell us that as long as
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  Speaker 1: they were hoping and striving and longing, mountains of difficulty
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  Speaker 1: rose before them, But that when they fashioned their hopes
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  Speaker 1: into fixed purposes, aid came unsought to help them on
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  Speaker 1: the way. Do you believe in yourself? The man without
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  Speaker 1: self reliance and an iron wills, the plaything of chance,
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  Speaker 1: the puppet of his environment, the slave of circumstances, are
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  Speaker 1: not doubts the greatest of enemies. If you would succeed
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  Speaker 1: up to the limit of your possibilities, must you not
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  Speaker 1: constantly hold to the belief that you are success organized
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  Speaker 1: and that you will be successful no matter what opposes you.
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  Speaker 1: Are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter
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  Speaker 1: your mind. That the creator intended you to win in
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  Speaker 1: life's battle. Regard every suggestion that your life may be
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  Speaker 1: a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed,
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  Speaker 1: and that success is not for you as a traitor,
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  Speaker 1: and expel it from your mind as you would a
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  Speaker 1: thief from your house. There is something sublime in the
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  Speaker 1: youth who possesses the spirit of boldness and fearlessness, who
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  Speaker 1: has proper confidence in his ability to do and dare.
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  Speaker 1: The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes
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  Speaker 1: in the man who believes in himself, But it has
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  Speaker 1: little use for the timid man, the one who is
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  Speaker 1: never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment,
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  Speaker 1: who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go
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  Speaker 1: ahead on his own account. It is the man with
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  Speaker 1: a positive nature, the man who believes that he is
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  Speaker 1: equal to the emergency, who believes he can do the
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  Speaker 1: thing he attempts, who wins the confidence of his fellow man,
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  Speaker 1: he is beloved because he is brave and self sufficient.
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  Speaker 1: Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been,
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  Speaker 1: as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self confident. They dared
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  Speaker 1: to step out from the crowd and act in an
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  Speaker 1: original way. They were not afraid to be generals. There
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  Speaker 1: is little room in this crowding, competing age for the timid,
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  Speaker 1: vacillating youth. He who would succeed to day must not
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  Speaker 1: only be brave, but must also dare to take chances.
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  Speaker 1: He who waits for certainty never wins. The law of
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  Speaker 1: the soul is eternal endeavor that bears the man onward
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  Speaker 1: and upward forever. A man can be too confiding in others,
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  Speaker 1: but never too confident in himself. Never admit defeat or poverty.
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  Speaker 1: Stoutly assert your divine right to hold your head up
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  Speaker 1: and look the world in the face. Step bravely to
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  Speaker 1: the front whatever opposes, and the world will make way
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  Speaker 1: for you. No one will insist upon your rights while
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  Speaker 1: you yourself doubt that you have any believe if you
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  Speaker 1: were made for the place you fill. Put forth your
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  Speaker 1: whole energies, be awake, electrify yourself. Go forth to the task.
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  Speaker 1: A young man once said to his employer, don't give
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  Speaker 1: me an easy job. I want to handle heavy boxes,
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  Speaker 1: shoulder great loads. I would like to lift a big
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  Speaker 1: mountain and throw it into the sea. And he stretched
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  Speaker 1: out two brawny arms, while his honest eyes danced, and
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: his whole being glowed with conscious strength. The world, in
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  Speaker 1: its heart admires the stern, determined doer. The world turns
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  Speaker 1: aside to let any man pass who knows whither he
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  Speaker 1: is going. It is wonderful how even the apparent casualties
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  Speaker 1: of life seem to bow to a spirit that will
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  Speaker 1: not bow to them, and yield to assist a design,
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  Speaker 1: after having in vain attempted to frustrate it. The man
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: who succeeds, says Prentice Molford, must always in mind or imagination, live, move, think,
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  Speaker 1: and act as if he gained that success or he
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  Speaker 1: never will gain it. We go forth, said Emerson, austere, dedicated,
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  Speaker 1: believing in the iron lynks of destiny, and will not
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  Speaker 1: turn on our heels to save our lives. A book
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  Speaker 1: A bust Or only the sound of a name shoots
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  Speaker 1: a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot hear of personal vigor of any kind great
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  Speaker 1: power of performance without fresh resolution. Chapter three, Force of
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  Speaker 1: will in camp and field. Oh, what miracles have been
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  Speaker 1: wrought by the self confidence, the self determination of an
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: iron will. What impossible deeds have been performed by it?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: It was this that took Napoleon over the Alps in midwinter.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: It took Farragut and Duty past the cannons, torpedoes and
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  Speaker 1: mines of the enemy. It led Nelson and Grant to victory.
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  Speaker 1: It has been the great tonic in the world of discovery, invention,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and art. It has helped to win a thousand triumphs
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: in war and science which were deemed impossible. The secret
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: of gene Dark's success was not alone in fair decision
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  Speaker 1: of character, but in the seeing of visions, which inspired
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: her to self confidence, confidence in her divine mission. It
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: was an iron will that gave Nelson command of the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: British fleet, a title, and a statue at Trafalgar Square.
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  Speaker 1: It was the keynote of his character when he said,
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  Speaker 1: when I don't know whether to fight or not I
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: always fight. It was an iron will that was brought
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  Speaker 1: into play when Horatius, with two companions, held ninety thousand
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  Speaker 1: Tuscans at bay until the bridge across the Tiber had
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  Speaker 1: been destroyed. When Leonidas at THERMOPYLI checked the mighty march
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  Speaker 1: of Xerxes. When Themistocles, off the coast of Greece shattered
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  Speaker 1: the Persians Armatowen, Caesar, finding his army hard pressed, seized
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  Speaker 1: spear and buckler and snatched victory from defeat. When Vinkelried
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: gathered to his breast a sheaf of Austrian spears and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: opened a path for his comrades, When Wellington fought in
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: many climes without ever being conquered, When Ney on a
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: hundred fields changed apparent disaster into brilliant triumph. When Sheridan
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: arrived from Winchester as the Union retreat was becoming a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: route and turned the tide. When Sherman signaled his men
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to hold the fort, knowing that their leader was coming.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized
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  Speaker 1: occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute,
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  Speaker 1: prompt decision and wholesouled action, sweep the world before them.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Who was the organizer of the modern German Empire? Was
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  Speaker 1: he not the man of iron Napoleon and Grant. What
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  Speaker 1: would you do if you were besieged in a place
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: entirely destitute of provisions, asked the examiner. When Napoleon was
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a cadet, if there were anything to eat in the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: enemy's camp, I should not be concerned. When Paris was
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: in the hands of a mob and the authorities were
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: panic stricken, in came a man who said, I know
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: a young officer who can quell this mob. Send for him.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Napoleon was sent for. He came. He subjugated the mob,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: He subjugated the authorities. He ruled France, then conquered Europe.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: May tenth, seventeen ninety six, Napoleon carried the bridge at
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  Speaker 1: Lodi in the face of the Austrian batteries trained upon
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the French end of the structure. Behind them were six
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: thousand troops. Napoleon massed four thousand grenadiers at the head
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  Speaker 1: of the bridge, with a battalion of three hundred carboneers
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: in front. At the tap of the drum, the foremost
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: assailants wheeled from the cover of the street wall under
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a terrible hail of grape and canister, and attempted to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: pass the gateway to the bridge. The front ranks went
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: down like stalks of grain before a reaper. The column
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: staggered and reeled backward, and the valiant grenadiers were appalled
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: by the task before them. Without a word or a
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: look of reproach, Napoleon placed himself at their head, and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: his aides and generals rushed to his side, forward again
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  Speaker 1: over heaps of dead that choked the passage, and a
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: quick run counted by seconds, only carried the column across
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: two hundred yards of clear space, scarcely a shot from
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the Austrians taking effect beyond the point where the platoons
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: wheeled for the first leap. The guns of the enemy
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: were not aimed at the advance. The advance was too
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: quick for the Austrian gunners. So sudden and so miraculous
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: was it all that the Austrian artillerists abandoned their guns
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: instantly and their supports fled in a panic, instead of
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: rushing to the front and meeting the French onslaught. This
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Napoleon had counted on in making the bold attack. What
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: was Napoleon, but the thunderbolt of war. He once journeyed
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: from Spain to Paris at seventeen miles an hour in
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the saddle. Is it possible to cross the path? Asked
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Napoleon of the engineers who had been sent to explore
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the dreaded pass of Saint Bernard. Perhaps was the hesitating reply,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: it is within the limits of possibility. Forward then, Yet
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Ulysses Esque Grant, a young man, unknown to fame, with
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: neither money nor influence, with no patrons or friends, in
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  Speaker 1: six years, fought more battles, gained more victories, captured more prisoners,
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  Speaker 1: took more spoils, commanded more men than Napoleon did in
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  Speaker 1: twenty years. The great thing about him, said Lincoln, is
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: cool persistence. Don't swear fight. When the Spanish fire on
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: San Juan Hill became almost unbearable, some of the rough
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: riders began to swear. Colonel Wood, with the wisdom of
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a good leader, called out amid the whistle of the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Mauser bullets. Don't swear fight. In a skirmish at Solomanca,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: while the enemy's guns were pouring shot into his regiment,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Sir William Napier's men became disobedient. He at once ordered
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: a halt and flogged four of the ringleaders under fire.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: The men yielded at once and then marched three miles
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: under a heavy cannonade, as coolly as if it were
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a review. When Pellisier, the Crimean chief of Zuaves, struck
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: an officer with a whip, the man drew a pistol
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that missed fire. The chief replied, fellow, I order you
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a three days arrest for not having your arms in order.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: The man of iron will as cool in the hour
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: of danger. I had to run like a cyclone. This
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: was what Roosevelt said about his pushing on up San
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Juan Hill ahead of his regiment. I had to run
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: like a cyclone to stay in front and keep from
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: being run over. The personal heroism of Hobson or of Cushing,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: who blew up the Albemarle forty years ago, was but
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the expression of a magnificent will power. It was this
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: which was the basis of General Wheeler's unparalleled military advancement.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: A second lieutenant at twenty three, a colonel at twenty four,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: a brigadier general at twenty five, a major general at
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: twenty six, a corp commander at twenty seven and a
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: lieutenant general at twenty eight. General Wheeler had sixteen horses
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: killed under him and a great number wounded. His saddle, equipments,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and clothes were frequently struck by the missiles of the enemy.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: He was three times wounded, once painfully. He had thirty
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: two staff officers or acting staff officers killed or wounded.
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  Speaker 1: In almost every case they were immediately by his side.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: No officer was ever more exposed to the missiles of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: death than Joseph Wheeler. What is this imperial characteristic of manhood?
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: An iron will? But that which underlies all magnificent achievement,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: whether by heroes of the light brigade or the heroic
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: fire fighters of our great cities. Chapter four, will power
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: in its relation to health and disease One, there is
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: no doubt that, as a rule, great decision of character
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: is usually accompanied by great constitutional firmness. Men who have
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: been noted for great firmness of character have usually been
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: strong and robust. As a rule, it is the strong
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: physical man who carries weight and conviction. Take as an
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: example William the Conqueror as he is pictured by Green
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: in his history. The very spirit of the seerrobbers from
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: whom he sprang seemed bodied in his gigantic form, his
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: enormous strength, his savage countenance, his desperate bravery. No other
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: night under heaven, his enemies confessed, was William's peer. No
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: other man could bend William's bow, his mace crashed through
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  Speaker 1: a ring of English warriors to the foot of the standard.
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  Speaker 1: He rose to his greatest heights in moments when other
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  Speaker 1: men despaired. No other man, who ever sat upon the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: throne of England was this man's match. Or take Webster,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Sidney Smith said, Webster is a living lie, because no
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: man on earth can be as great as he looks.
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  Speaker 1: Carlyle said of him, one would incline at sight to
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: back him against the world. His very physique was eloquent.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Men yielded their wills to his at sight. The great
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: prizes of life ever fall to the robust, the stalwart,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the strong, not to a huge muscle or powerful frame, necessarily,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: but to a strong vitality, a great nervous energy. It
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: is the Lord Brugham's working almost continuously one hundred and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: forty four hours. It is the Napoleon's twenty hours in
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  Speaker 1: the saddle It is the Franklins camping out in the
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: open air at seventy. It is the Gladstones firmly grasping
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the helm of the ship of state at eighty four,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: tramping miles every day, and chopping down huge trees at
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: eighty five, who accomplish the great things of life. To prosper,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you must improve your brain power. And nothing helps the
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: brain more than a healthy body. The race of to
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: day is only to be won by those who will
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: study to keep their bodies in such good condition that
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: their minds are able and ready to sustain that high
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: pressure on memory and mind which our present fierce competition engenders.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: It is health, rather than strength, that is now wanted.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Health is essentially the requirement of our time to enable
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: us to succeed in life. In all modern occupations, from
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  Speaker 1: the nursery to the school, from the school to the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: shop or world beyond, the brain and nerve strain go
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: on continuous, augmented and intensifying. As a rule, physical vigor
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: is the condition of a great career. Stonewall Jackson, early
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: in life, determined to conquer every weakness he had, physical, mental,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: and moral. He held all of his powers with a
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: firm hand to his great self discipline and self mastery.
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  Speaker 1: He owed his success. So determined was he to harden
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: himself to the weather that he could not be induced
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  Speaker 1: to wear an overcoat in winter. I will not give
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  Speaker 1: into the cold, he said. For a year, on account
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: of dyspepsia, he lived on buttermilk and stale bread, and
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: wore a wet shirt next his body, because his doctor
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: advised it, although everybody else ridiculed the idea. This was
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: while he was professor at the Virginia Military Institute. His
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: doctor advised him to retire at nine o'clock, and no
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: matter where he was or who was present, he always
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: sought his bed on the minute. He adhered rigidly through
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: life to this stern system of discipline. Such self training,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: such self conquest, gives one great power over others. It
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: is equal to genius itself. I can do nothing, said
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  Speaker 1: Grant without nine hours sleep. What else is so grand
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: as to stand on life's threshold, fresh, young, hopeful, with
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the consciousness of power equal to any emergency, a master
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: of the situation. The glory of a young man is
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: his strength. Our great need of the world today is
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: for men and women who are good animals. To endure
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the strain of our concentrated civilization, the coming man and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: woman must have an excess of animal spirits. They must
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: have a robustness of health. Mere absence of disease is
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: not health. It is the overflowing fountain, not the one
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: half full, that gives life and beauty to the valley below.
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  Speaker 1: Only he is healthy who exalts in mere animal existence,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: whose very life is a luxury, who feels a bounding
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: pulse throughout his body, who feels life in every limb,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: as dogs do when scouring over the field, or as
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: boys do when gliding over fields of ice. Two. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of all this, in defiance of it, we
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  Speaker 1: know that an iron will is often triumphant in a
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: contest with physical infirmity. Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves.
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  Speaker 1: There is a nobleness of mind that heals wounds beyond salves.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: One day set a noted rope walker, I signed an
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: agreement to wheel a barrow along a rope on a
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: given day. A day or two before I was seized
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: with lumbago. I called him my medical man and told
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: him I must be cured by a certain day. Not
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: only because I should lose what I hope to earn,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: but also forfeit a large sum. I got no better,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: and the doctor forbade my getting up. I told him,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: what do I want with your advice? If you cannot
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: cure me of what good is your advice? When I
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: got to the place, there was the doctor protest. I
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: was unfit for the exploit. I went on, though I
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: felt like a frog with my back. I got ready
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: my pole and my barrow, took hold of the handles
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and wheeled it along the rope as well as I
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: ever did. When I got to the end, I wheeled
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: it back again. And when this was done, I was
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: a frog again. What made me that I could will
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: the barrow? It was my reserve will? What does he know,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: asks the sage who has not suffered? Did not Schiller
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: produce his greatest tragedies in the midst of physical suffering
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: almost amounting to torture. Handel was never greater than when
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: warned by palsy of the approach of death, and struggling
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: with distress and suffering, he sat down to compose the
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: great works which have made his name immortal. In music,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Beethoven was almost totally deaf and burdened with sorrow when
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: he produced his greatest works. Milton, writing who best can suffer,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: best can do? Wrote at his best when in feeble health,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and when poor and blind. Yet I argue against Heaven's hand,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: or will nor bade a jot of heart or hope,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: but still bear up and steer right onward. The Reverend
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: William H. Milburn, who lost his sight when a child,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: studied for the ministry and was ordained before he attained
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: his majority. He has written half a dozen books, among
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: them a very careful History of the Mississippi Valley. He
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: has long been Chaplain of the Lower House of Congress.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Blind Fanny Crosby of New York was a teacher of
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the blind for many years. She has written nearly three
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: thousand hymns, among which are pass me not O, Gentle Savior,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Rescue the perishing Savior, more than life to me, and
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Jesus keep me near the cross. The truest help we
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: can render one who is afflicted, said Bishop Brooks, is
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: not to take his burden from him, but to call
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: out his best energy that he may be able to
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: bear what a mighty will Darwin had he was in
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: continual ill health as in constant suffering. His patience was marvelous.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: No one but his wife knew what he endured for
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: forty years. Says his son, he never knew one day
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: of health. Yet during those forty years he unremittingly forced
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: himself to do the work from which the mightiest minds
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and the strongest constitutions would have shrunk. He had a
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: wonderful power of sticking to a subject. He used almost
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: to apologize for his patients, saying that he could not
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: bear to be beaten, as if it were a sign
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: of weakness. Bulward advises us to refuse to be ill,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: never to tell people we are ill, never to own
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: it ourselves. Illness is one of those things which a
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: man should resist on principle. Do not dwell upon your ailments,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: nor study your symptoms. Never allow yourself to be convinced
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: that you are not complete master of yourself. Stoutly affirm
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: your own superiority over bodily ills. We should keep a
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: high ideal of health and harmony constantly before the mind
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: is not the mind the natural protector of the body.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: We cannot believe that the Creator has left the whole
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: human race entirely at the mercy of only about half
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: a dozen specific drugs, which always act with certainty. There
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: is a divine remedy placed within us for many of
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the ills we suffer. If we only knew how to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: use this power of will and mind to protect ourselves,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: many of us would be able to carry youth and
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: cheerfulness with us into the teens of our second century.
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  Speaker 1: The mind has undoubted power to preserve and sustain physical
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: youth and beauty, to keep the body strong and healthy,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: to renew life, and to preserve it from decay many
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: years longer than it does now. The longest lived men
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and women have, as a rule, been those who have
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: attained great mental and moral development. They have lived in
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the upper region of a higher life, beyond the reach
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: of much of the jar, the friction, and the discords
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: which weaken and shatter most lives. Every physician knows that
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: courageous people within dama will are not half as likely
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: to contract contagious diseases as the timid, the vacillating, the irresolute.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: A thoughtful physician once assured a friend that if an
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: express agent were to visit New Orleans in a yellow
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: fever season, having forty thousand dollars in his care. He
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: would be in little danger of the fever. So long
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: as he kept possession of the money. Let him once
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: deliver that into other hands, and the sooner he left
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the city, the better. Napoleon used to visit the plague hospitals,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: even when the physicians dreaded to go, and actually put
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  Speaker 1: his hands upon the plague stricken patience. He said, the
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  Speaker 1: man who was not afraid could vanish the plague. A
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: will power like this is a strong tonic to the body.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Such a will has taken many men from apparent death
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: beds and enabled them to perform wonderful deeds of valor.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: When told by his physicians that he must die, douglas
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Gerald said, and leave a family of helpless children. I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: won't die. He kept his word and lived for years.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter five, The Romance of achievement under difficulties. What doth
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  Speaker 1: the poor man's son inherit? Stout muscles and a sinewy heart,
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  Speaker 1: a hearty frame, a heartier spirit. King of two hands,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: he does his part in every useful toil and art
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: a heritage, it seems to me a king might wish
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: to hold in fee. Lowell has not God given every
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: man a capital to start with? Are we not born rich?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: He is rich who has good health, a sound body,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: good muscles. He is rich who has a good head,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: a good disposition, a good heart. He is rich who
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: has two good hands with five chances on each equipped.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Every man is equipped as only God could equip him.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: What a fortune he possesses in the marvelous mechanism of
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: his body and mind. It is individual effort that has
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: achieved everything worth achieving, the fun of the little game.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: A big Australian six feet four, James Tyson, died not
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: long since with a property of twenty five million dollars.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Who began life as a farm hand, Tyson cared little
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: for money. He used to say, of it, I shall
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: just leave it behind me when I go. I shall
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: have done with it then, and it will not concern
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: me afterwards. But he would add, with a characteristic semi
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: exultant snap of the fingers, the money is nothing. It
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: was the little game that was the fun. Being asked
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: what was the little game, he replied with an energy
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: of concentration peculiar to him. Fighting the desert that has
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: been my work. I have been fighting the desert all
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: my life, and I have won. I have put water
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: where was no water, and beef where was no beef.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I have put fences where there were no fences, and
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: roads where there were no roads. Nothing can undo what
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I have done, and millions will be happier for it
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: after I am long dead and forgotten. Has not self
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: help accomplished about all the great things of the world.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: How many young men falter, faint and dally with their
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: purpose because they have no capital to start with, and
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: wait and wait for some good luck to give them
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: a lift. But success is the child of drudgery and perseverance.
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  Speaker 1: It cannot be coaxed or bribed. Pay the price, and
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: it is yours. A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: bring success from inhospitable surroundings is the price of all
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: great achievements, conquerors of fortune. Benjamin Franklin had this tenacity
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: of purpose in a wonderful degree when he started in
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: the printing business in Philadelphia. He carried his material through
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: the streets on a wheelbarrow. He hired one room for
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: his office, work room, and sleeping room. He found a
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: formidable rival in the city and invited him to his room,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: pointing to a piece of bread from which he had
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: just eaten his dinner. He said, unless you can live
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: cheaper than I can, you cannot starve me out. It
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: was so that he proved the wisdom of Edmund Burke,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: saying that he that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. The
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: poor and friendless lad George Peabody, weary footsore and hungry,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: called at a tavern in Concord, New Hampshire, and asked
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: to be allowed to saw wood for lodging and breakfast.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Yet he put in work for everything he ever received,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: and outmatched the poverty of early days. Gideon Lee could
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: not even get shoes to wear in winter when a boy,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: but he went to work barefoot in the snow. He
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: made a bargain with himself to work sixteen hours a day.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: He fulfilled it to the letter, and when from interruption
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: he lost time, he robbed himself of sleep to make
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: it up. He became a wealthy merchant of New York,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: mayor of the city, and a member of Congress Commercial Courage.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: The busy business affairs of a gentleman named Rouss were
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: once in a complicated condition owing to his conflicting interests
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: in various states, and he was thrown into prison. While confined,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: he wrote on the walls of his cell, I am
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: forty years of age. This day, when I am fifty,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: I shall be worth half a million, and by the
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: time I am sixty, I shall be worth a million dollars.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: He lived to accumulate more than three million dollars. The
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: ruin which overtakes so many merchants, says Whipple, is due
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: not so much to their lack of business talent as
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: to their lack of business nerve. Cyrus w Field had
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: retired from business with a large fortune when he became
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: possessed with the idea that, by means of a cable
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: laid upon the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, telegraphic communication
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: could be established between Europe and America. He plunged into
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the undertaking with all the force of his being. It
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: was an incredibly hard contest. The forests of Newfoundland, the
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: lobby in Congress, the unskilled handlingness of brakes on his
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Agamemnon cable, a second and a third breaking of the
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: cable at sea, the cessation of the current in a
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: well laid cable, the snapping of a superior cable on
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: the Great Eastern All thesa vailed not to foil the
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: iron will of Field, whose final triumph was that of
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: mental energy in the application of science for New York journalists.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: To Horace Greeley, the founder of the Tribune, I need
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: not allude his story is or ought to be in
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: every school book. James Brooks, once the editor and proprietor
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: of the Daily Express and later an eminent congressman, began
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: life as a clerk in a store in Maine, and
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: when twenty one, received for his pay a hogshead of
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: New England rum. He was so eager to go to
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: college that he started for Waterville with his trunk on
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: his back. And when he was graduated, he was so
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: poor and plucky that he carried his trunk on his
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: back to the station as he went home. When James
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Gordon Bennett was forty years old, he collected all his
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: property three hundred dollars, and in a cellar with a
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: bored upon two barrels for a desk, himself his own
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: type setter, office boy, publisher, newsboy, clerk, editor, proofreader, and
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: printer's devil. He started the New York Herald. He did
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: this after many attempts and defeats in trying to follow
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the routine instead of doing his own way. Never was
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: any man's early career a better illustration of Wendell Phillips dictum,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: what is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: steps to something better. Thurlow Weed, who was a journalist
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: for fifty seven years, strong, sensible, genial, tactful, and of
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: magnificent physique, who did so much to shape public policy
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: in the Empire State, tells a most romantic story of
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: his boyhood. I cannot ascertain how much schooling I got
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: at Catskill. Probably less than a year, certainly not a
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: year and a half. And this was when I was
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: not more than five or six years old. I felt
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: a necessity at an early age of trying to do
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: something for my own support. My first employment was in
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: sugar making, an occupation to which I became much attached.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: I now look with great pleasure upon the days and
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: nights passed in the sap bush. The want of shoes,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: which as the snow was deep, was no small privation,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: was the only drawback upon my happiness. I used, however,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: to tie pieces of an old rag carpet around my feet,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: and got along pretty well chopping wood and gathering up sap.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: But when the spring advanced and bare ground appeared in spots,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: I threw off the old carpet encumbrance and did my
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: work barefoot. There is much leisure time for boys who
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: are making maple sugar. I devoted this time to reading
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: when I could obtain books, But the farmers of that
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: period had few or no books, save their bibles. I
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: borrowed books whenever and wherever I could. I heard that
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: a neighbor three miles off had borrowed from a still
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: more distant neighbor a book of great inn interest. I
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: started off barefoot in the snow to obtain the treasure.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: There were spots of bare ground upon which I would
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: stop to warm my feet, and there were also along
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the road occasional lengths of log fence, from which the
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: snow had melted, and upon which it was a luxury
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: to walk. The book was at home, and the good
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: people consented, upon my promise that it should be neither
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: torn nor soiled, to lend it to me. In returning
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: with the prize, I was too happy to think of
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: the snow or my naked feet. Candles were then among
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: the luxuries, not the necessaries of life. If boys, instead
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: of going to bed after dark, wanted to read, they
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: supplied themselves with pine knots, by the light of which
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: in a horizontal position, they pursued their studies. In this manner,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: with my body in the sugar house and my head
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: out of doors, where the fat pine was blazing, I
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: read with intense interest the book I had borrowed, History
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: of the French Revolution. Weed's next earning was in an
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: iron foundry at Onondaga. My business was after a casting,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: to temper and prepare the molding dogs myself. This was
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: night and day work. We ate salt, pork and rye
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: and Indian bread three times a day, and slept on
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: straw in bunks. I liked the excitement of a furnace life.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: When he went to the Albany Argus to learn the
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: printing business, he worked from five in the morning till
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: nine at night. From humblest beginnings, the more difficulties one
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: has to encounter within and without, the more significant in
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: the higher in inspiration his life will be. Horace Bushnell.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: The story of Weed and of Greeley is not an
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: uncommon one in America. Some of the most eminent men
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: on the globe have struggled with poverty in early life
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: and triumphed over it. The astronomer Kepler, whose name can
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: never die, was kept in constant anxieties, and he told
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: fortunes by astrology for a livelihood, saying that astrology, as
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the daughter of astronomy, ought to keep her mother, all
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: sorts of service he had to accept. He made almanacs
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: and worked for any one who would pay him. Linnius
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: was so poor when getting his education that he had
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: to mend his shoes with folded paper, and often had
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: to beg his meals of his friends. During the ten
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: years in which he made his greatest discoveries, Isaac Newton
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: could hardly pay two shillings a week to the Royal Society,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: of which he was a member. Some of his friends
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: wanted to get him excused from this payment, but he
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: would not allow them to act. Humphrey Davy had but
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: a slender chance to acquire great scientific knowledge. Yet he
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: had true metal in him, and he made even old pans, kettles,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: and bottles contribute to his success. As he experimented and
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: studied in the attic of the apothecary store where he worked.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: George Stephenson was one of eight children whose parents were
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: so poor that all lived in a single room. He
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: had to watch cows for a neighbor, but he managed
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: to get time to make engines of clay with hemlock
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: sticks for pipes. At seventeen, he had charge of an
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: engine with his father for fireman. He could neither read
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: nor write, but the engine was his teacher, and he
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: a faithful student. While the other hands were playing games
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: or loafing in liquor shops during the holidays, George was
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: taking his machine to pieces, cleaning it, studying it, and
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: making experiments in engines. When he had become famous as
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: a great inventor of improvements in engines, those who had
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: loafed and played called him lucky. It was by steadfastly
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: keeping at it, by indomitable will power, that these men
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: won their positions in life. We rise by the things
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: that are under our feet, by what we have mastered
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: of good, or gain talent in tatters. Among the companions
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: of Sir Joshua Reynolds, while he was studying his art
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: at Rome, was a fellow pupil of the name of Astley.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: They made an excres incursion with some others on a
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: sultry day, and all except Astley took off their coats.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: After several taunts, he was persuaded to do the same,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: and displayed on the back of his waistcoat a foaming waterfall.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Distress had compelled him to patch his clothes with one
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: of his own landscapes. James Sharpie's, the celebrated blacksmith artist
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: of England, was very poor, but he often rose at
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: three o'clock to copy books he could not buy. He
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: would walk eighteen miles to Manchester and back after a
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: hard day's work, to buy a shillings worth of artist's materials.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: He would ask for the heaviest work in the blacksmith shop,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: because it took a longer time to heat at the forge,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: and he could thus have many spare minutes to study
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: the precious book, which he propped up against the chimney.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: He was a great miser of spare moments, and used
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: everyone as though he might never see another. He devoted
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: his leisure hours for five years to that wonderful production
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: the Forge, copies of which are to be seen in
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: many a home. It was by one unwavering aim, carried
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: out by an iron will, that he wrought out his
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: life triumph. That boy will beat me one day, set
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: an old painter as he watched a little fellow named
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: michael Angelo making drawings of pot and brushes, easel and stool,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: and other articles in the studio. The barefoot boy did
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: persevere until he had overcome every difficulty and become the
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: greatest master of art the world has known. Although michael
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Angelo made himself a mortal in three different occupations, and
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: his fame might well rest upon his Dome of Saint
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Peter as an architect, upon his Moses as a sculptor,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: or upon his last judgment as a painter, Yet refined
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: by his correspondence now in the British Museum, that when
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: he was at work on his colossal bronze statue of
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Pope Julius, too, he was so poor that he could
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: not have his younger brother come to visit him at Bologna,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: because he had but one bed in which he and
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: three of his assistants slept together. Yet the star of
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: an unconquered will arose in his breast, serene and resolute,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: and still and calm, and self possessed concentrated energy. The
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: struggles and triumphs of those who are bound to win
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: is a never ending tale. Nor will the procession of
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: enthusiastic workers see, so long as the globe is turning
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: on its axle. Say what we will of genius specialized
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: in a hundred callings. Yet the fact remains that no
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: amount of genius has ever availed upon the earth, unless
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: enforced by will power to overcome the obstacles that hedge about.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Every one who would rise above the circumstances in which
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: he was born or become greater than his calling was
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: not Virgil the son of a porter, Horus of a shopkeeper,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Demosthenes of a cutler, Milton of a money scrivener, Shakespeare
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: of a wolf stapler, and Cromwell of a brewer. Ben Johnson,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: when following his trade of a mason, worked on Lincoln's
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Inn in London with trowel in hand and a book
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: in his pocket. Joseph Hunter was a car rupenter in youth.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Robert Burns a plowman, Keats a druggist, Thomas Carlyle, and
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Hugh Miller masons, Dante and Descartes were soldiers. Cardinal Wolsey
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Defoe and Kirk White were Butcher's sons. Faraday was the
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: son of a hostler and his teacher, Humphrey Davy was
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: an apprentice to an apothecary. Kepler was a waiter boy
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: in a German hotel, Bunyan a tinker, Copernicus the son
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: of a Polish baker. They rose by being greater than
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: their callings, as Arkwright rose above mere barbering, Bunyan above tinkering,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Wilson above shoemaking, Lincoln above rail splitting, and Grant above tanning.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: By being first class barbers, tinkers, shoemakers, rail splitters, tanners,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: they acquired the power which enabled them to become great inventors, authors, statesman,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: generals John kay the inventor of the fly shuttle, James Hargreaves,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: who introduced the spinning Jenny and Samuel Compton, who are
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: riged sated mule spinning. Where all artisans uneducated and poor,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: but were endowed with natural faculties which enabled them to
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: make a more enduring impression upon the world than anything
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: that could have been done by the mere power of
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: scholarship or wealth. It cannot be said of any of
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: these great names, that their individual courses in life would
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: have been what they were had there been lacking as
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: superble power, resistless as the tide to bear them upward
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: and onward. Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: I have a soul that, like an ample shield, can
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: take in all and ViRGE enough for more. Fate was
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: not mine, nor am I. Fates souls know no conquerors. Dryden,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: Chapter six, Staying power, Never give up. There are chances
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: and changes helping the hopeful a hundred to one, and
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: through the chaos, high wisdom arranges ever success if you'll
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: only hold on. Never give up, for the wisest is boldest,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: knowing that providence mingles the cup, and of all maxims,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the best as the oldest is the stern watchword of
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: never give up, be firm. One constant element of luck
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: is genuine, solid, old teutonic pluck. Holmes. Success in most
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: things depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed Montesquieu.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: The power to hold on is characteristic of all men
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: who have accomplished anything great. They may lack in some
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: other particular, have many weaknesses or eccentricities, but The quality
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: of persistence is never absent from a successful man, no
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: matter what opposition he meets or what discouragement overtakes him.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Drudgery cannot disgust him, Obstacles cannot discourage him, Labor cannot
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: weary him. Misfortune, sorrow and reverses cannot harm him. It
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: is not so much brilliancy of intellect or fertility of
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: resource as persistency of effort constancy of purpose that makes
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: a great man. Those who succeed in life are the
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: men and women who keep everlastingly added, who do not
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: believe themselves geniuses, but who know that if they ever
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: accomplish anything, they must do it by determined and persistent industry. Audubon,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: after years of forest life, had two hundred of his
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: priceless drawings destroyed by mice. A poignant flame, he relates,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: pierced my brain like an arrow of fire, and for
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: several weeks I was prostrated with fever. At length, physical
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: and moral strength awoke within me again. I took my gun,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: my game bag, my portfolio, and my pencils, and plunged
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: once more into the depths of the forests. All are
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: familiar with the misfortune of Carlyle while writing his history
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: of the French Revolution. After the first volume was ready
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  Speaker 1: for the press, he loaned the manuscript to a neighbor,
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  Speaker 1: who left it lying on the floor, and the servant
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  Speaker 1: girl took it to kindle the fire. It was a
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  Speaker 1: bitter disappointment, but Carlyle was not the man to give up.
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  Speaker 1: After many months of pouring over hundreds of volumes of
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  Speaker 1: authorities and scores of manuscripts, he reproduced that which had
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  Speaker 1: burned in a few minutes. Proceed, and light will dawn.
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  Speaker 1: The slightest acquaintance with literary history would bring to light
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  Speaker 1: a multitude of heroes of poverty or misfortune, of men
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  Speaker 1: and women perplexed and disheartened, who have yet aroused themselves
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  Speaker 1: to new effort at every new obstacle. It is related
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  Speaker 1: by Rago that he found under the cover of a
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  Speaker 1: text book he was binding a short note from Dayalenberg
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  Speaker 1: to a student. Go On, sir, go on, The difficulties
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  Speaker 1: you meet with will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed,
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  Speaker 1: and light will dawn and shine with increasing clearness on
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: your path. That Maxim said, Rago was my greatest master
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  Speaker 1: in mathematics. Had Balzac been easily discouraged, he would have
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  Speaker 1: hesitated at the words of warning given by his father.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know that in literature a man must be
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  Speaker 1: either a king or a beggar? Very well was the reply,
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  Speaker 1: I will be a king. His parents left him to
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  Speaker 1: his fate in a garret. For ten years, he fought
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  Speaker 1: terrible battles with hardship and poverty, but won a great
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  Speaker 1: victory at last. He won it after producing forty novels
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  Speaker 1: that did not win. Zola's early manhood witnessed a bitter
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  Speaker 1: struggle against poverty and deprivation. Until twenty He was a
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  Speaker 1: spoiled child, but on his father's death, he and his
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  Speaker 1: mother began the battle of life in Paris. Of his
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  Speaker 1: dark time, Zola himself says, often I went hungry for
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  Speaker 1: so long that it seemed as if I must die.
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  Speaker 1: I scarcely tasted meat from one month's end to another,
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  Speaker 1: and for two days I lived on three apples. Fire
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  Speaker 1: even on the coldest nights was an undreamed of luxury,
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  Speaker 1: and I was the happiest man in Paris when I
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  Speaker 1: could get a candle by the light of which I
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  Speaker 1: might study at night. Samuel Johnson's Bare Feet at Oxford
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  Speaker 1: showed through the holes in his shoes, Yet he threw
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  Speaker 1: out at his window the new pair that some one
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  Speaker 1: left at his door. He lived for a time in
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  Speaker 1: London on nine cents a day. For thirteen years he
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  Speaker 1: had a hard struggle with want. John Locke once lived
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  Speaker 1: on bread and water in a Dutch garret, and Haines
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  Speaker 1: slept many a night on a barn floor with only
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  Speaker 1: a book for his pillow. It was to poverty as
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: a thorn urging the breast of Harriet Martineau that we
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  Speaker 1: owe her writings. There are no more interesting pages in
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  Speaker 1: biography than those which record how Emerson, as a child
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  Speaker 1: was unable to read the second volume of a certain
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  Speaker 1: book because his widowed mother could not afford the amount
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  Speaker 1: five cents necessary to obtain it from the circulating library.
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  Speaker 1: Poor fellow, said Emerson, as he looked at his delicately
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  Speaker 1: reared little son, how much he loses by not having
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  Speaker 1: to go through the hard experiences I had in my youth.
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  Speaker 1: It was through the necessity laid upon him to earn
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  Speaker 1: that Emerson made his first great success in life as
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  Speaker 1: a teacher. I know, he said, no such unquestionable badge
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  Speaker 1: and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose, which,
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  Speaker 1: through all change of companions or parties or fortunes changes,
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  Speaker 1: never bates no jot of heart or hope, but wearies
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  Speaker 1: out opposition and arrives at its port. She can never succeed.
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  Speaker 1: Louisa Alcott earned two hundred thousand dollars by her pen,
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  Speaker 1: Yet when she was first dreaming of her power, her
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  Speaker 1: father handed her a manuscript one day that had been
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  Speaker 1: rejected by mister Fields, editor of the Atlantic, with the message,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: tell Louisa to stick to her teaching. She can never
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  Speaker 1: succeed as a writer. Tell him I will succeed as
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  Speaker 1: a writer, and some day I shall write for the Atlantic.
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  Speaker 1: Not long after, she wrote for the Atlantic a poem
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  Speaker 1: that Longfellow attributed to Emerson. And there came a time
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  Speaker 1: when she wrote in her diary twenty years ago, I
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  Speaker 1: resolved to make the family independent if I could. At
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  Speaker 1: forty that is done. Debts all paid, even the outlawed ones,
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  Speaker 1: and we have enough to be comfortable. It has cost
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  Speaker 1: me my health. Perhaps I trample on impossibilities. So it
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: was said by Lord Chatham. Why, asked Mirabeau, should we
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  Speaker 1: call ourselves men unless it be to succeed in everything everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It is all very well, said Charles J. Fox. To
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  Speaker 1: tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by
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  Speaker 1: a brilliant first speech, he may go unsatisfied with his
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  Speaker 1: first triumph. But show me a young man who has
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  Speaker 1: not succeeded at first and has then gone on, and
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: I will back that man to do better than those
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: who succeeded at the first trial. Cobden broke down completely
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  Speaker 1: the first time he appeared on a platform in Manchester,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: and the chairman apologized for him, but he did not
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  Speaker 1: give up speaking until every poor man in England had
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: a larger, better and cheaper loaf. Young Disraeli, sprung from
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: a hated and persecuted race, pushed his way up through
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: the middle classes and upper classes until he stood self
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  Speaker 1: poised upon the top most round of political and social power.
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  Speaker 1: At first he was scoffed at, ridiculed, rebuffed, hissed from
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  Speaker 1: the House of Commons. He simply said, the time will
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  Speaker 1: come when you will hear me. The time did come,
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  Speaker 1: and he swayed the scepter of England for a quarter
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: of a century. How massive was the incalculable reserved power
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: of Lincoln as a youth, or of President Garfield, Wood Chopper,
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  Speaker 1: bell Ringer, and sweeper General In college persistent purpose. We
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: hear a great deal of talk about genius, talent, luck, chance, cleverness,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: and fine manners playing a large part in one's success,
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  Speaker 1: leaving out luck and chance. All these elements are important factors.
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  Speaker 1: Yet the possession of any or all of them, unaccompanied
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  Speaker 1: by a definite aim, a determined purpose, will not ensure success.
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  Speaker 1: Men drift into business, they drift into society, they drift
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  Speaker 1: into politics, drift into what they fondly and but vainly
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: imagine is religion. If wins and tides are favorable, all
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  Speaker 1: is well. If not all is wrong, Stalker says, most
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  Speaker 1: men merely drift through life, and the work they do
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  Speaker 1: is determined by a hundred different circumstances. They might as
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: well be doing anything else, or they would prefer to
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: be doing nothing at all. Yet, whatever else may have
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: been lacking in the giants of the race, the men
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  Speaker 1: who have been conspicuously successful have all had one characteristic
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: in common, doggedness and persistence of purpose. It does not
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  Speaker 1: matter how clever a youth may be, whether he leads
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  Speaker 1: his class in college or outshines all the other boys
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  Speaker 1: in his community. He will never succeed if he lacks
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: this essential of determined persistence. Many men who might have
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: made brilliant musicians, artists, teachers, lawyers, able physicians, or surgeons,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of predictions to the contrary, have fallen short
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  Speaker 1: of success. Because deficient in this quality, persistency of purpose
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  Speaker 1: is power. It creates confidence in others. Everybody believes in
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: the determined man. When he undertakes anything, his battle is
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: half won, because not only he himself, but every one
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  Speaker 1: who knows him believes that he will accomplish whatever he
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  Speaker 1: sets out to do. People know that it is useless
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  Speaker 1: to oppose a man who uses his stumbling blocks as
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: stepping stones, who is not afraid of defeat, who never,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: in spite of calny or criticism, shrinks from his task,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: who never shirks responsibility, who always keeps his compass pointed
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: to the north star of his purpose, no matter what
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: storms may rage about him. The persistent man never stops
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: to consider whether he is succeeding or not. The only
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: question with him is how to push ahead, to get
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  Speaker 1: a little farther along, a little nearer his goal, whether
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: it lead over mountains, rivers, or morasses, he must reach it.
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  Speaker 1: Every other consideration is sacrificed to this one dominant purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The success of a dull or average youth and the
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: failure of a brilliant one is a constant surprise in
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: American history. But if the different cases are closely analyzed,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: we shall find that the explanation lies in the staying
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  Speaker 1: power of the seemingly dull boy, the ability to stand
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  Speaker 1: firm as a rock under all circumstances, to allow nothing
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: to divert him from his purpose. Three necessary things. Three
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  Speaker 1: things are necessary, said Charles Sumner. First backbone, second backbone,
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  Speaker 1: third backbone. A good chance alone is nothing. Education is
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  Speaker 1: nothing without strong and vigorous resolution and stamina to make
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  Speaker 1: one accomplish something in the world. An encouraging start is
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: nothing without backbone. A man who cannot stand erect, who
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: wobbles first one way and then the other, who has
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  Speaker 1: no opinion of his own or courage to think his
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  Speaker 1: own thought, is of very little use in this world.
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  Speaker 1: It is grit, It is perseverance. It is moral semina
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  Speaker 1: and courage that govern the world. At the trial of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: the Seven Bishops of the Church of England for refusing
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: to aid the king to overthrow the Protestant faith. It
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: was necessary to watch the officers at the doors, lest
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: they send food to some juryman and aid him to
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: starve the others into an agreement. Nothing was allowed to
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: be sent in but water for the jurymen to wash in,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: and they were so thirsty they drank it up. At
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: first nine were for a quitting and three for convicting.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Two of the minority soon gave way. The third Arnold
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  Speaker 1: was obstinate. He declined to argue. Austin said to him,
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  Speaker 1: look at me, I am the largest and the strongest
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: of the twelve, and before I will find such a
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  Speaker 1: petition as this libel, here will I stay till I
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: am no bigger than a tobacco pipe. Arnold yielded at
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  Speaker 1: six in the morning, success against odds. Yes to this thought,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: I hold with firm persistence. The last result of wisdom
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: stamps at true. He only earns his freedom and existence,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: who daily conquers them anew gerda. It is interesting to
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, says Irving,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. Opposing circumstances create strength.
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  Speaker 1: Opposition gives us greater power of resistance to overcome. One
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: barrier gives us greater ability to overcome the next. History
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  Speaker 1: is full of examples of men and women who have
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: redeemed themselves from disgrace, poverty, and misfortune by the firm
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: resolution of an iron will. Success is not measured by
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: struggle against overwhelming odds. Not the distance we have run,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: but the obstacles we have overcome, the disadvantages under which
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: we have made the race will decide the prizes. It is,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: says Henry Ward Beecher, that turns bone to flint and
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: gristled to muscle, and makes men invincible and formed. Those
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: heroic natures that are now in ascendency in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: Governor Seymour of New York, a man of great force
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  Speaker 1: and character, said, in reviewing his life, if I were
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  Speaker 1: to wipe out twenty acts. What should they be? Should
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  Speaker 1: it be my business mistakes, my foolish acts, for I
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: suppose all do foolish acts occasionally, my grievances. No, For
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: after all, these are the very things by which I
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  Speaker 1: have profited. So I finally concluded I should expunge instead
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: of my mistakes, my triumphs. I could not afford to
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: dismiss the tonic of mortification, the refinement of sorrow. I
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: needed them, every one, every condition. Be it what it
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  Speaker 1: may says. Channing has hardships, hazards, pains. We try to
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  Speaker 1: escape them. We pine for a sheltered lot, for a
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: smooth path, for cheering friends and unbroken success. But providence
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: ordained storms, disasters, hostilities, sufferings, and the great question whether
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: we shall live to any purpose or not, whether we
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  Speaker 1: shall grow strong in mind and heart or be weak
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  Speaker 1: and pitiable, depends on nothing so much as on our
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: use of the adverse circumstances. Outward evils are designed to
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: school our passions and to rouse our faculties and virtues
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: into intenser action. Sometimes they seem to create new powers.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: Difficulty is the element, and resistance the true work of
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: man self. Culture never goes on so fast as when
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: embarrassed circumstances, the opposition of men, or the elements, unexpected
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: changes of the times, or other forms of suffering. Instead
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: of disheartening, throw us on our inward resources, turn us
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: for strength to God, clear up to us the great
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: purpose of life, and inspire calm resolution. No greatness or
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: goodness is worth much unless tried in these fires. Better
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: to stem with heart and hand the roaring tide of
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: life than lie unmindful on its flowery strand of God's occasions,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: drifting by. Better with naked nerve to bear the needles
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: of this goating air than in the lap of sensual ease.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Forego the godlike power to do the godlike aim to
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: know Whittier, Chapter seven, The degree of O O. When
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Moody first visited Ireland, he was introduced by a friend
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: to an Irish merchant, who asked, at once, is he
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: an O O out and out? That was what O
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: O stood for, out and out for God. That was
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  Speaker 1: what this merchant meant. He indeed is but a wooden
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: man and a poor stick at that, who is decided
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: in everything else, but who never knows where he is
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: at in all moral relations being religiously nowhere. The early
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  Speaker 1: books of the Hebrews have much to say about the
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  Speaker 1: valley of decision and the development of out and out
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: moral character. Willfully lacking in a well balanced will power
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  Speaker 1: is the man who stands side by side with moral evil,
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  Speaker 1: personified in hands with it, to serve it willingly as
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: a tool and servant morally made in God's image. What
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  Speaker 1: is more sane, more wholesome, more fitting for a man
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  Speaker 1: than his rising up promptly decidedly to make the divine
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: will his own will in all moral action, to take
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: it as the supreme guide to go by. It is
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: the glory of the human will to coincide with the
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: divine will. Doing this, a man's iron will, instead of
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: being a malignant, selfish power, will be useful in uplifting mankind.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: God has spoken, or he has not spoken. If he
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: has spoken, the wise will hear. We search the world
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: for truth. We cull the good, the pure, the beautiful
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: from graven stone and written square, from all the flower
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: fields of the soul, and weary seekers of the best,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: we come back laden from our quest to find that
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: all the sages said is in the book our mother
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  Speaker 1: read whittier O earth that blooms, and birds that sing,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: O stars that shine when all is dark. In type
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: and symbol, thou dost bring the life divine, and bid
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: us hark, that we may catch the chance sublime and
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: rising past the bounds of time. So shall we win
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  Speaker 1: the gold divine, our immortality. Carol Norton