the royal path of life or aims and aids to success and happiness pdf epub fb2

by thomas l haines

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The theme of this book is obviously world-old. And it presents the thoughts and ideas that are never out of date, being both so old and present-day. Success and happiness, striving of people for the better, values of life – the author shows us, how little has changed for the ages. The book was published in 1877, since when we can add this experience of the past to our own.

ISBN: 1594626537

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...betoken a hardy, honest toil, under whose farmer's or mechanic's vest the kingliest heart may beat. OCCUPATION. 133 Above all, the notion that the "three black graces, " Law, Medicine and Ministry, must be worshiped by the candidate for respectability and honor, has done incalculable damage to society. It has spoiled many a good carpenter, done injustice to the sledge and the anvil, cheated the goose and the shears out of their rights, and committed fraud on the corn and the potato field. Thousands have died of broken hearts in these professions thousands who might have been happy at the plow, or opulent behind the coun- ter; thousands, dispirited and hopeless, look upon the healthful and independent calling of the farmer with envy and chagrin ; and thousands more, by a worse fate still, a^'c reduced to necessities which degrade them in thsir own estimation, rendering the most brilliant success but a wretched compensation for the humilation with which it is accompanied, and compelling...