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" The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality... "
Wit and Wisdom; Jokes, Conundrums, Sentiments, and Aphorisms - Page 254
by Wit - 1860
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ..., Volume 24

New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...powerful, the great and the insignificant — is energy, invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything...will make a two-legged creature a man without it." The expression of this opinion is exaggerated, yet it is substantially correct. There are too many...
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The Christian Witness, and Church Member's Magazine:, Volume 12

1855 - 630 pages
...and the insignficant, is energy — invincible determination ; an honest purpose once fixed, and then opportunity, will make a two-legged creature a man without it." Undoubtedly our dear brother had such...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 65

1862 - 802 pages
...purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do antthing that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities,...will make a two-legged creature a man without it." [tmotrs antr |le«nt MR. PHILIP WHITEHEAD WAS born on the border where the Scottish and English counties...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 2-5

1744 - 596 pages
...and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination. This will do anythingthatcan be done, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities,...will make a two-legged creature a man without it. Sir T. Buxion. SOLIDITY.— No decorations of the edifice can compensate for the want of solidity at...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 32-33

1878 - 300 pages
...tell him disagreeable truths. — Bulwer Lytton. . Energy will do anything that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged animal a man without it. — Goethe. |)ottic Sections. NIGHT AMONG THE HILLS. So stiU ! So still t...
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet: With Selections from His ...

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - 646 pages
...purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done In this world ; and no talents. no circumstances, no opportunities,...will make a two-legged creature a man without it"— (Extract qfa Letter from Sir T. Fowell Burton.) LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. THE NEW YORK...
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The Bible class magazine [ed. by C.H. Bateman]., Volume 1

National Sunday school union - 1861 - 306 pages
...powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy, — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed, and then, 'Death or victory!' That quality will do anything that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man...
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet: With Selections from His ...

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - 628 pages
...death or victory. That quality will tio any thing that can be done in this world ; and no talenti. no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it."— (Eilract of a Letter from Sir T. Powell Button.) LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1848. • PREFACE....
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The Sunday School Magazine, Volumes 9-10

1849 - 698 pages
...the great and the insignificant, is energy — invineible determination — a purpose once fixed — and then, death or victory. That quality will do anything...that can be done in the world : and no talents, no eircumstances, no opportunitics will make a two-legged creature a man without it Early development...
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet: With Selections from His ...

Charles Buxton - 1849 - 534 pages
...purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creatut* • man without it."— (Extract of a Letter from Sir T. Powell Buiton.) PHILADELPHIA: HENRY...
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