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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. HOW TO BE INSIGNIFICANT. Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well yourf art, there all the honor lies.?Pope. To be at work, to do thing's for the world, to turn the currents of the things about us at our will, to make our existence a positive element, even though it be no bigger than a grain of sand, in this great system where we live, ?that is a new joy of which the idle man knows no more than the mole knows of the sunshine, or the serpent of the eagle's triumphant flight into the upper air. The man who knows indeed what it is to act, to work, cries out, ' This, this alone is to live! ' ?Phillips Brooks. The world is full of insignicant people. They are born, they go to school, they work, they eat, they sleep, they talk?rather frivolously, they live?very aimlessly, and one day they die, and the world is not much the poorer because of their disappearance. A few men struggle to the front, rise beyond the humdrum level of the crowd, and make their voices heard above the common clamor. Butas for the rest, they are insignificant. Why? Because it is the easiest thing in the world. Probably the surest way to be insignificant is to inherit wealth. It is generally the greatest possible curse for a man to begin life in opulence. It ties his hands, lowers his ambition, and narrows his sympathies. He is fettered by fashion, and bound tightly by the conventional prejudices of society. He will not succeed in journalism, for he cannot bend his back to begin with the daily drudgery. He will hardly consent to soil his hands in trade; and as for science and art, why should he endure the long toil and severe training of the student when he can occupy the pleasurable position of the patron ? Except in a few remarkable cases, the young man who enters on life's trage...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217721431
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 18
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217721435
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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