A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. Young men talk of trusting to the spur of the occasion. That trust is vain. Occasion cannot make spurs. If you expect to wear spurs, you must win them. If you wish to use them, you must buckle them to your own... Ohio Educational Monthly - Page 311882Full view - About this book
| 1881 - 590 pages
...him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his shabby coat. Luck is an ignis fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, but not to success. If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. It is no honour... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - Presidents - 1880 - 402 pages
...and life. Do not dream that some good luck is going to happen to you and give you fortune. Luck is an ignis fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, but not to...down in blackest night, when the Old Guard perished round him, and Waterloo was lost. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. " Young men talking of trusting... | |
| Phrenology - 1880 - 670 pages
...content to enter upon any business which does not require and compel constant intellectual growth." "Young men talk of trusting to the spur of the occasion; that trust is vain ; occasion can not make spurs. If you expect to wear spurs you must win them." The letter is couched... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1880 - 514 pages
...could not harness a horse, or make out a bill of sale, if the world depended upon it." " Luck is an ignis fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, but not to success." " A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck." " Be fit for more than the one thing you are now doing."... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1880 - 518 pages
...could not harness a horse, or make out a bill of sale, if the world depended upon it." " Luck is an ignis fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, but not to success." " A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck." " Be fit for more than the one thing you are now doing."... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 736 pages
...they are endowed with sictivity and life. Luck is an ignis fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, •s but not to success. The great Napoleon, who believed...down in blackest night, when the Old Guard perished round him, and Waterloo was lost. A pound of pluck ? is worth a ton of luck. . . . " Poverty is uncomfortable,... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Presidents - 1881 - 698 pages
...endowed with activity and life. Luck is an ignis fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, but not to«uccess. The great Napoleon, who believed in his destiny, followed...down in blackest night, when the Old Guard perished round him, and Waterloo was lost. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. . . . " Poverty is uncomfortable,... | |
| James Baird McClure - Presidents - 1881 - 488 pages
...the Thing you are now doing. — IF you are not too large for the Place you are too small for it. — YOUNG Men talk of trusting to the Spur of the Occasion. That trust is vain. Occasions cannot make Spurs. If you expect to wear Spurs you must win them. If you wish to use them you must buckle them to your... | |
| James Abram Garfield - United States - 1881 - 380 pages
...than the Thing you are now doing. IF you are not too large for the Place you are too small for it. YOUNG Men talk of trusting to the Spur of the Occasion. That trust is vain. Occasions cannot make Spurs. If you expect to wear Spurs you must win them. If you wish to use them you must buckle them to your... | |
| William M. Thayer - Presidents - 1881 - 430 pages
...could not harness a horse, or make out a bill of sale, if the world depended upon it." " Luck is an ignis fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, but not to success." " A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck." " Be fit for more than the one thing you are now doing."... | |
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