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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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ressor. Do they say to you that study willlead you to skepticism ? Recall to their memories thevenerable names of Bacon, Milton, Newton, and Locke.Would they persuade you that devotion to learningwill withdraw your steps from the paths of pleas-ure ? Tell them that the only true pleasures are thosewhich result from the diligent exercise of all the facul-ties of body and mind and heart, the pursuit of nobleends by noble means. Repeat to them the ancient ap-ologue of the youthful Hercules, in the pride of strengthand beauty, giving up his generous soul to the worshipof virtue. Tell them your choice is also made. Tellthem, with the illustrious Roman orator, you wouldrather be in the wrong with Plato than in the rightwith Epicurus. You should bring your mind to the reading of abook, or to the study of any subject, as you take an axeto the grindstone; not for what you get from the stone,but for the sharpening of the axe. While it is truethat the facts learned from books are worth more than
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime.Read great books that come from great thinkers ; formative books, inspiring,soul-lifting books ; and remember that it is the books read before middle life thatmost mould character and influence destiny. BOOKS. 441 the dust from the stone, even in much greater ratio isthe mind more valuable than the axe. Bacon says : Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, somebooks are to be read only in parts ; others to be read,but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly,and with diligence and attention. Eeading maketh afull man, conference a ready man, and writing an exactman; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had needhave a great memory; if he confer little, he had needhave a present wit; and if he read little, he hadneed have much cunning, to seem to know that he dothnot. Histories make men wise; poets witty; themathematics subtle ; na

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