| Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1893 - 250 pagina’s
...highest aspect, as you have always taken it. My motto for you, Polly, is Goethe's couplet : — • ' What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.' " " Make way for the story-teller ! " cried Edgar. " I will buy season tickets for both your groups,... | |
| Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1893 - 244 pagina’s
...its highest aspect, as you have always taken it. My motto for you, Polly, is Goethe's couplet : — ' What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it* " " Make way for the story-teller ! " cried Edgar. " I will buy season tickets for both your groups,... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1893 - 984 pagina’s
...in its highest aspect, as you have always taken it. My motto for you, Polly, is Goethe's couplet : " What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.1' " Make way for the story-teller!" cried Edgar. " I will buy season tickets for both your groups,... | |
| 1897 - 696 pagina’s
...They soon learned that to obtain any sure success in this world, they must be "up and doing." One must "Seize this very minute. What you can do, or dream...heated; Begin, and then the work will be completed." But, the efforts and energies that which half a century ago would have resulted in fame and fortune,... | |
| Arnold Clark - 1894 - 378 pagina’s
...starless, the past so fruitless, his thoughts so ignoble, his wishes so selfish and base. CHAPTER XVIII. "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What...begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!" —GOETHE. During the next three weeks Oliver was away from home nearly every evening. He dreaded any... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - 480 pagina’s
...opportunity for doing good, that never could have been done before, and never can be again. — WU BURLEIUH. "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute ; What you can do, or dream you can, bsffin it." "Iv we succeed, what will the world say?" asked Captain Berry in delight, when Nelson had... | |
| James Russell Miller - 1895 - 380 pagina’s
...the next more dilatory; The indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest ? Seize this very minute. What you can do, or think you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1895 - 370 pagina’s
...us in the world . . . Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it." " Are you in earnest ? seize this very minute, What you can do, or think you can, begin it." ' 1 Faust. There is a Turkish proverb that the Devil tempts the Idle man,... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 488 pagina’s
...opportunity for doing good, that never could have been done before, and never can be again. — WH BURLEIUH. "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute ; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it." "!F we succeed, what will the world say?" asked Captain Berry in delight, when Nelson had explained... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 pagina’s
...for doing good, that never could have been done before, and never can be again. — WH BURLEIGH. " Are you in earnest ? Seize this very minute ; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it." "!F we succeed, what will the world say?" asked Captain Berry in delight, when Nelson had explained... | |
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