 Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times •out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.  Ohio Educational Monthly - Page 331882Full view - About this book
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1886 - 1000 pages
...lavish amount of pocket-money their parents allow them when they are boys." The lamented Garfield said: "Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify, but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen a young man is to be (tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself." In all my acquaintance... | |
 | James Sanks Brisbin - Biography - 1880 - 598 pages
...to be a Democrat here. Speech of General Oarfisld, at Faneuil Hall, 1878. GARFIELD AS A BOY AND MAN. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine...sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. Garfield's Address to the Students of Hiram... | |
 | Phrenology - 1880 - 670 pages
...fatuiis : you may follow it to RUIN, but never to SUCCESS. A pound of PLUCK is worth a ton of LUCK." " Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten, the i best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - Bookbinding - 1881 - 626 pages
...Washington, 589 Lying in State at Cleveland, 601 The Catafalque used at Cleveland, 607 GARFIELD ^BOY-" MAN. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine...sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. Garfield's Address to the Students of Hiram... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1881 - 614 pages
...beaten in Right than succeed in Wrong. Present evils always seem greater than those that never come. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine...sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. For the noblest man that lives there still... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1881 - 204 pages
...convictions. Luck. 79. Luck is an ignis-fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, but never to success. Poverty. 80. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine...sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. Growth. The Bestowal of the Wreath. 82. It... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1881 - 784 pages
...President Garfield 595 By the Bedside of the suffering President 598 • GARFIELD AS A BOY AND MAN, Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine...sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. Garficld's Address to the Students of Ilirani... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - United States - 1881 - 354 pages
...ignis-fatuus. You may follow it to Ruin, but never to Success. A POUND of Pluck is worth a ton of Luck. POVERTY is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine...sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a Man to be drowned who was worth the saving. I FOR the noblest Man that lives there still... | |
 | James Sanks Brisbin, William Ralston Balch - Biography - 1881 - 786 pages
...of President Garfield 595 By the Bedside of the suffering President 598 GARFIELD AS A BOY AND MAN, Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten the best tiling that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.... | |
 | William S. Key - 1882 - 98 pages
...that I may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat." * " Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine.'...sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving." * " If the power to do hard work is not talent,... | |
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