 | Charles H. Kent - 1897 - 328 ページ
...struggling to get a living. — Wendell Phillips. 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, to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a boy to be drowned who was worth... | |
 | Benjamin Wood - 1899 - 228 ページ
...surplus available for wide-reaching investments in other fields. ANDREW CARNEGIE. The best thing which can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to swim or sink. This was the case in the life of Andrew Carnegie, of iron and steel fame. At the age... | |
 | George I. Aldrich, Alexander Forbes - 1900 - 248 ページ
...5. Let not poverty stand as an obstacle in your way. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance, I have never known one to be drowned who was worth the saving. This would not be wholly true in any country... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1900 - 468 ページ
...obstacles. Let not poverty stand as an obstacle in your way. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance, I have never known one to be drowned who was worth the saving. This would not be wholly true in any country... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1900 - 282 ページ
...worked his own way through college. " Poverty," he said, " is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself." Garfield, like Lincoln, was a man of powerful physique, won by hard manual labor in a frontier country... | |
 | Joseph Alfred Conwell - 1903 - 332 ページ
...accompanying experiences is entirely natural and should always lead to wholesome results. Garfield said : "Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be thrown overboard and compelled to swim or sink for himself." The world is a great school and there... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Crafts - 1906 - 314 ページ
...joint product of nature and nurture.— GABFIELD. Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving. It is the pride of every American that many cherished names, at whose mention our hearts beat with... | |
 | William Milford Giffin - 1906 - 152 ページ
...from facts from " real life." " Poverty." says Garfield, " is uncomfortable, as I can testify, but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself." Shortly after returning from the west, I entered the Albany State Normal School (Class '73). It was... | |
 | 1906 - 594 ページ
...take advantage of opportunity. To quote the present Lord Mayor of London, Alderman Walter V. Morgan : The best thing that can happen to a young man is to be poor. Extreme poverty may sometimes hamper a youth's progress, but, in my opinion, he is far more likely... | |
 | Sylvanus Stall - 1907 - 384 ページ
...Garfield acknowledged these facts when he said, 'To be poor is uncomfortable, as I can testify, but nine times out of ten, the best thing that can happen to any young man is to be thrown overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. I never knew one... | |
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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. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was... 
