William Arthur
Published: 2015-07-27
Total Pages: 142
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Excerpt from Our Home City "Let a man but have an aim, a purpose, and opportunities to attain his end shall start forth like buds at the kiss of spring. Say not thou lackest talent What talent had any of the great ones better than their passionate trust in the efficacy of labor? The main thing is to have an aim and to pursue it with perseverance. There are no opportunities for those who have no life purpose." - Bishop Spalding. "How true are those old Arabian Nights fables. Mocking and whispering, and abuse loud and low by turns, from all the black stones beside the road, when one living soul is toiling up the hill to get the cooling water. Mocking and whispering, that he may look back, and become a black stone like themselves." - Ruskin. "Without earnestness nothing can be achieved, but marvelous results follow from the diligent devotion of ones powers, time, and money to the accomplishment of a design steadily held in view. Let a man have good faith, a serious purpose, persevering industry, and a resolve to honor truth by use, and his course shall be upward from out the shadows and the gloom into the light of a free, a noble, and a blessed life." Goethe. All great and worthy work is done under the in spiration of ideals. The sculptor is looking, not at: the things that are seen, but at things that are unseen, when he calls the angel out of the marble. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.