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Mountaineer

William Mathews, born in 1828 in the United Kingdom, was a renowned mountaineer who played a significant role in the development of mountaineering in the late 19th century.

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Famous William Mathews Quotes

“Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.”

Should Half Pairs Half Truth

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!”

Ifs Age Force Phrases Pregnant Quotations Lamps Thoughts On Life Forces Of Nature

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.”

Men Helping Difficulty Obstacles Facility

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.”

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Book:The Great Conversers, and Other Essays

Source: The Great Conversers, and Other Essays

“What a man does is the real test of what a man is.”

Men Doe Real Action Tests

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.”

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Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.”

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.”

Men Way Character Use Money Tests Acquisition Test Of Character

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.”

Firsts Law Energy Left Focus Bed Concentration

Author:William Mathews

About the Author

Born: 1828
Died: 1901
Known for: Mountaineer
Quotes: 9

Books & Sources

Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in LifeRelated source material

The Great Conversers, and Other EssaysRelated source material

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