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“The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.”

Men Should Young Life Is Attention Half Boys Duty Battle Aim Contact Young Man Officials Spheres Battle Of Life

Book:The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Source: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.”

Want Rich Greater Flower Duty Gay Fairs Garden Aim Rose Confusion Unexpected Gardening Uniforms Old Fashioned Spray Recruit Flower Garden Consultation Unexpected Places

Book:Gardening by Myself

Source: Gardening by Myself

“Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.”

Ifs Needs Should Looks Important Remember Duty Succeed Anxiety Claims Aim Simplicity Complicated Priorities Fringe Garments Dominating Complicated Life

Author:Anna Brackett

“Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.”

“The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.”

Ifs Body Virtue Duty Innovation Aim Bounds Improvement Superiors Regulation Obedient Bureaucrats Rules And Regulations

Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.”

“Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.”

Giving Government Failing Mankind Duty Failure Aim Credit

Book:Paine and Jefferson on Liberty

Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty

“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!”

Thinking Forget Duty Terrible Aim Possession Sufficient Terrible Things Life Happiness Aim Of Life

Book:Les Mis??rables

Source: Les Mis??rables