 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1893 - 984 pages
...in its highest aspect, as you have always taken it. My motto for you, Polly, is Goethe's couplet : " What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.1' " Make way for the story-teller!" cried Edgar. " I will buy season tickets for both your groups,... | |
 | Arnold Clark - 1894 - 378 pages
...starless, the past so fruitless, his thoughts so ignoble, his wishes so selfish and base. CHAPTER XVIII. "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What...begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!" —GOETHE. During the next three weeks Oliver was away from home nearly every evening. He dreaded any... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - 480 pages
...opportunity for doing good, that never could have been done before, and never can be again. — WU BURLEIUH. "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute ; What you can do, or dream you can, bsffin it." "Iv we succeed, what will the world say?" asked Captain Berry in delight, when Nelson had... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1895 - 380 pages
...the next more dilatory; The indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest ? Seize this very minute. What you can do, or think you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1895 - 370 pages
...us in the world . . . Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it." " Are you in earnest ? seize this very minute, What you can do, or think you can, begin it." ' 1 Faust. There is a Turkish proverb that the Devil tempts the Idle man,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 pages
...for doing good, that never could have been done before, and never can be again. — WH BURLEIGH. " Are you in earnest ? Seize this very minute ; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it." "!F we succeed, what will the world say?" asked Captain Berry in delight, when Nelson had explained... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 488 pages
...opportunity for doing good, that never could have been done before, and never can be again. — WH BURLEIUH. "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute ; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it." "!F we succeed, what will the world say?" asked Captain Berry in delight, when Nelson had explained... | |
 | Gustav Gottheil - 1896 - 504 pages
..."I have done the best I could" — this should bring us contentment and peace. GEORGE FORSTER. jHAT you can do, or dream you can, begin it ; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it; Only begin and then the mind grows heated ; Begin, then the work will be completed. 250 ' XV. &ot>e £0gseff... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1896 - 256 pages
...its highest aspect, as you have always taken it. My motto for you, Polly, is Goethe's couplet : — ' What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it' " " Make way for the story-teller ! " cried Edgar. " I will buy season tickets for both your groups,... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1896 - 256 pages
...in the child-world about us. EMMA SHERMAN ECHOLS. POLLY OLIVER'S PROBLEM A STORY FOR GIRLS " Whatyiu can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." GOETHE. CONTENTS CRAPTZB FAOB I. A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . 7 II. FORECASTING THE FUTURE ... 21... | |
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. 
