...ROGERS. The highest breeding comes round to the Indian standard, to take everything coolly. OW HOLMES. Be firm ! one constant element in luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck. OW HOLMES. It is a common error, of which a wise man will beware, to measure the worth of our neighbor...

...path be dark as night; There's a star to guide the humble, Trust in God and do the right. Firmness. Be firm! one constant element in luck Is genuine,...thrill, Clung to its base, and greets the sunrise still. 0. W. Holmes. Out of Doors. 'Tis good to be abroad in the sun, His gifts abide when day is done; Hence...

...so make life and death, and that forever, One grand, sweet song. CHARLRS KINGSLRY. Pluck.] CCLVIII. Be firm ! one constant element in luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck ! OW HOLMRS. Poetry of Milton.} CCL1X. We often hear of the ma;;ionl influence of poetry. The expression...

...busier fools ; Prudent ? Industrious ? Let not modern pens Instruct " Poor Richard's " fellow citizens. Be firm ! one constant element in luck Is genuine,...thrill, Clung to its base, and greets the sunrise still. Yet in opinions look not always back ; Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track ; Leave what you've...

...speculation where psychology and physiology exercise mixed jurisdiction." — Lowell. ILLUSTRATIONS. " Be firm ! one constant element in luck Is genuine,...thrill, Clung to its base, and greets the sunrise still. Don't catch the fidgets ; you have found your place Just in the focus of a nervous race, Fretful to...

...all of Helena. MAXIMS. "By the streets of bye and bye one arrives at the house of never." Cervantes. "Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold will slip. But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip." Holmes. ''There are more men who have missed opportunities than there are who have lacked opportunities."...

...once when he was all worn out in his work, these two lines braced him up and helped him through, " Stick to your aim ; the mongrel's hold will slip, But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip." Holmes's very careful study of Motley's life, printed first in the Transactions of the Massachusetts...

...Lucy Rider Meyer. PLUCK AND LUCK One constant element of luck Is genuine solid old Teutonic pluck. Stick to your aim, the mongrel's hold will slip; But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip. Small though he looks, the jaw that never yields Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields. Oliver Wendell...

...Lucy Rider Meyer. PLUCK AND LUCK. One constant element of luck Is genuine solid old Teutonic pluck. Stick to your aim, the mongrel's hold will slip; But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip. Small though he looks, the jaw that never yields Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields. "THE HOLY...

...Lucy Rider Meyer. PLUCK AND LUCK. One constant element of luck Is genuine solid old Teutonic pluck. Stick to your aim, the mongrel's hold will slip; But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip. Small though he looks, the jaw that never yields Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields. Oliver Wendell...