William Mathews Quotes

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

  William Mathews

  Men, Helping, Obstacles

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.89, Belford Bros.

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• La primera ley del éxito es la concentración: encaminar todas las energías hacia un punto e ir directamente a él, sin mirar ni a derecha ni a izquierda.

  William Mathews

  Law, Focus, Bed

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

  William Mathews

  Men, Solitude, Age

  William Mathews (1874). “The Great Conversers, and Other Essays”, p.50

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• 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.

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  Money, Character, Men

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.284, Belford Bros.

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

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  Half, Pairs, Should

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.136, Belford Bros.

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• What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

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  Real, Men, Doe

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.9, Belford Bros.

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• [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!

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  Age, Lamps, Phrases

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.93, Belford Bros.

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• 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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  Life, Ocean, Men

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.3, Belford Bros.

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• 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.

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  Estrellas, Destino, Hombres

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.23, Belford Bros.

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