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Title: Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924
Subjects: Success
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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ing to see what willcome of it. And so walls are reared, and room is addedto room, while the man looks idly on, and all the bystand-ers exclaim, What a fool he is ! Yet this is the waymany men are building their characters for eternity,adding room to room, without plan or aim, and thought-lessly waiting to see what the effect will be. Suchbuilders will never dwell in the house of God, notmade with hands, eternal in the heavens. Some people build as cathedrals are built, the partnearest the ground finished ; but that part which soarstowards heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever in-complete. Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise —the head and heart are stuffed with goods. Like thosehouses in the lower streets of cities which were oncefamily dwellings, but are now used for commercial pur-poses, there are apartments in their souls which wereonce tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship;but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filledwith material things.
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON* The Moses of ColoiiiarFinance. Poverty is a condition wliicli no man should accept, unless it is forced uponhim as an inexorable necessity or astlie alternative of dishonor. Comfort and independence abide with those who can postpone their desires. CHAPTER XII. WEALTH IN ECONOMY. Economy is half the battle of life. — Spurgeon. Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty and ease, and the beaute-ous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. — Dr. Johnson. Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve themones self? As much wisdom can be expended on a private economy as on an em-pire. — Emerson. Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand andlittle by little will multiply. — Goethe. No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use ofwhat you have. — Latin Proverb. Beware of little extravagances: a small leak will sink a big ship. —Franklin. Better go to bed supperless than rise with debts

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