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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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much as I love it,I love reading better. — Pope. When I consider what some books have done for the world, and whatthey are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith,soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose homes are hard and cold,bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty,bring down truths from heaven, — I give eternal blessings for this gift.—James Freeman Clarke. Books are the friends of the friendless. — George S. Hillard. Who of us can tellWhat he had been, had Cadmus never taughtThe art that fixes into form the thought, —Had Plato never spoken from his cell,Or his high harp blind Homer never strung ? BULWER. When a boy, said Horace Greeley, I would goreading to the woodpile ; reading to the garden; read-ing to the neighbors. My father was poor and neededmy services through the day, but it was a mighty strug-gle for him to get me to bed at night. I would take apine knot, put it on the backlog, pile my books around
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GEORGE ELIOTHappy is the man tliat findeth wisdom,And the man tliat getteth understanding : For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver,And tlie gain thereof, tlian fine gold.She is more precious than rubies :And all the things thou canst desireAre not to be compared unto her. BOOKS. 431 me, and lie down and read all through the long winterevenings; silent, motionless, and dead to all the worldaround me, alive only to the world to which I wastransported by my book. How many a boy could tell a similar story ! Howmany a man in prosperity has found one of his greatestpleasures in books ; and to how many more have theyproved a solace in poverty and pain, a refuge from care,a pleasant substitute for gloomy thoughts ! Perhaps no other thing has such power to lift thepoor out of his j^overty, the wretched out of his misery,to make the burden-bearer forget his burden, the sickhis suffering, the sorrower his grief, the downtroddenhis degradation, as books. They are frien

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