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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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s downfall from the daywhen he began borrowing money. Debt demoralizedDaniel Webster, and Theodore Hook, and Sheridan,and Fox, and Pitt. Mirabeaus life was made wretchedby duns. Annual income, says Micawber, twenty pounds ;annual expenditure, nineteen six, result — happiness.Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure,twenty pounds ought and six, result — misery. We are ruined, says Colton, not by what wereally want, but by what we think we do. Thereforenever go abroad in search of your wants ; if they bereal wants, they will come home in search of you; forhe that buys what he does not want will soon wantwhat he cannot buy. The honorable course is to give every man his due.It is better to starve than not to do this. It is betterto do a small business on a cash basis than a large oneon credit. Owe no man anything, wrote St. Paul. Itis a good motto to place in every purse, in every count-ing-room, in every church, in every home. Economy is of itself a great revenue. — Cicero.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe Sage of Concord.■ I revere the person wlio is riches : so I cannot think of him as alone, or poor,or exiled, or unhappy. CHAPTER XIII. RICH WITHOUT MONEY. Let others plead for pensions; I can be rich without money, by endeav-oring to be superior to everything poor. I would have my services to mycountry unstained by any interested motive. — Lord Collingwood.Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Pope. Pennilessness is not poverty, and ownership is not possession; to bewithout is not always to lack, and to reach is not to attain ; sunlight is forall eyes that look up, and color for those who choose. — Helen Hunt. I ought not to allow an) man, because he has broad lands, to feel that heis rich in my presence. I ought to make him feel that I can do withouthis riches, that I cannot be bought, —neither by comfort, neither by pride,— and although I be utterly penniless, and receiving bread from him, thathe is the

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