. Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement. ee rough-hewn features of massive strength. Youngmen are too apt to forget the great end of life which isto be and do, not to read and brood over what othermen have been and done. In a gymnasium you tug, you expand your chest, youpush, pull, strike, run, in order to develop your physi-cal self; so you can develop your moral and intellec-tual nature only by continued effort. I repeat that my object is not to give him know-ledge but to teach him how
. Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement. ee rough-hewn features of massive strength. Youngmen are too apt to forget the great end of life which isto be and do, not to read and brood over what othermen have been and done. In a gymnasium you tug, you expand your chest, youpush, pull, strike, run, in order to develop your physi-cal self; so you can develop your moral and intellec-tual nature only by continued effort. I repeat that my object is not to give him know-ledge but to teach him how to acquire it at need, saidEousseau. All learning is self-teaching. It is upon the workingof the pupils own mind that his progress in knowledgedepends. The great business of the master is to teachthe pupil to teach himself. Thinking, not growth, makes manhood, says IsaacTaylor. Accustom yourself, therefore, to yourself to understand whatever you see or join thinking with reading is one of the first maxims,and one of the easiest operations. * How few think justly of the thinking few:How many never think who think they THOMAS ALVA EDISON The Wizard of Menlo Park. What tlie uorld wants is men who have the nerve and tlie grit to work andwait, whether tlie world applaud or hiss. CHAPTER IX. WORK AND WAIT. What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what wealready are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.—H. P. LiDDON. In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. —CiCKRO. I consider a human soul without education like marble in a quarry,which shows none of its inherent beauties until the skill of the polishersketches out the colors, makes the surface shine, and discovers everyornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs throughout the body of it. —Addison. Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thou-sand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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