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great
encouragement to broaden their horizon, and will get a practical,
helpful, sensible education in their odd moments and half-holidays.
Dr. Marden, in "Pushing to the Front," shows that the average of the
leaders are not above the average of ability. They are ordinary people,
but of extraordinary persistence and perseverance. It is a storehouse of
noble incentive, a treasury of precious sayings. There is inspiration and
encouragement and helpfulness on every page. It teaches the doctrine
that no limits can be placed on one's career if he has once learned the
alphabet and has push; that there are no barriers that can say to aspiring
talent, "Thus far, and no farther." Encouragement is its keynote; it aims
to arouse to honorable exertion those who are drifting without aim, to
awaken dormant ambitions in those who have grown discouraged in the
struggle for success.
THE PUBLISHERS.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I.
THE MAN AND THE OPPORTUNITY II. WANTED--A MAN III.
BOYS WITH NO CHANCE IV. THE COUNTRY BOY V.
OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE VI. POSSIBILITIES IN
SPARE MOMENTS VII. HOW POOR BOYS AND GIRLS GO TO
COLLEGE VIII. YOUR OPPORTUNITY CONFRONTS
YOU--WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH IT? IX. ROUND BOYS IN
SQUARE HOLES X. WHAT CAREER? XI. CHOOSING A
VOCATION XII. CONCENTRATED ENERGY XIII. THE
TRIUMPHS OF ENTHUSIASM XIV. "ON TIME," OR, THE
TRIUMPH OF PROMPTNESS XV. WHAT A GOOD
APPEARANCE WILL DO XVI. PERSONALITY AS A SUCCESS
ASSET XVII. If YOU CAN TALK WELL XVIII. A FORTUNE IN
GOOD MANNERS XIX. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIMIDITY
FOES TO SUCCESS XX. TACT OR COMMON SENSE XXI.
ENAMORED OF ACCURACY XXII. DO IT TO A FINISH XXIII.
THE REWARD OF PERSISTENCE XXIV. NERVE--GRIP, PLUCK
XXV. CLEAR GRIT XXVI. SUCCESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES
XXVII. USES OF OBSTACLES XXVIII. DECISION XXIX.
OBSERVATION AS A SUCCESS FACTOR XXX. SELF-HELP
XXXI. THE SELF-IMPROVEMENT HABIT XXXII. RAISING OF
VALUES XXXIII. PUBLIC SPEAKING XXXIV. THE TRIUMPHS
OF THE COMMON VIRTUES XXXV. GETTING AROUSED
XXXVI. THE MAN WITH AN IDEA XXXVII. DARE XXXVIII.
THE WILL AND THE WAY XXXIX. ONE UNWAVERING AIM
XL. WORK AND WAIT XLI. THE MIGHT OF LITTLE THINGS
XLII. THE SALARY YOU DO NOT FIND IN YOUR PAY
ENVELOPE XLIII. EXPECT GREAT THINGS OF YOURSELF
XLIV. THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK YOU ARE A FAILURE XLV.
STAND FOR SOMETHING XLVI. NATURE'S LITTLE BILL XLVII.
HABIT--THE SERVANT,--THE MASTER XLVIII. THE

CIGARETTE XLIX. THE POWER OF PURITY L. THE HABIT OF
HAPPINESS LI. PUT BEAUTY INTO YOUR LIFE LII.
EDUCATION BY ABSORPTION LIII. THE POWER OF
SUGGESTION LIV. THE CURSE OF WORRY LV. TAKE A
PLEASANT THOUGHT TO BED WITH YOU LVI. THE
CONQUEST OF POVERTY LVII. A NEW WAY OF BRINGING UP
CHILDREN LVIII. THE HOME AS A SCHOOL OF GOOD
MANNERS LIX. MOTHER LX. WHY SO MANY MARRIED
WOMEN DETERIORATE LXI. THRIFT LXII. A COLLEGE
EDUCATION AT HOME LXIII. DISCRIMINATION IN READING
LXIV. READING A SPUR TO AMBITION LXV. WHY SOME
SUCCEED AND OTHERS FAIL LXVI. RICH WITHOUT MONEY

ILLUSTRATIONS
Orison Swett Marden . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
House in which Abraham Lincoln was born
Ulysses S. Grant
William Ewart Gladstone
John Wanamaker
Jane Addams
Thomas Alva Edison
Henry Ward Beecher
Lincoln studying by the firelight
Marshall Field
Joseph Jefferson [Transcriber's note: Jefferson was a prominent actor
during the latter half of the 1800's.]

Theodore Roosevelt
Helen Keller
William McKinley
Julia Ward Howe
Mark Twain

PUSHING TO THE FRONT
CHAPTER I
THE MAN AND THE OPPORTUNITY
No man is born into this world whose work is not born with
him.--LOWELL.
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them
up.--GARFIELD.
Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon
opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its
utmost of possible achievement--these are the martial virtues which
must command success.--AUSTIN PHELPS.
"I will find a way or make one."
There never was a day that did not bring its own opportunity for doing
good that never could have been done before, and never can be
again.--W. H. BURLEIGH.
"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream
you can, begin it."
"If we succeed, what will the world say?" asked Captain Berry in

delight, when Nelson had explained his carefully formed plan before
the battle of the Nile.
"There is no if in the case," replied Nelson. "That we shall succeed is
certain. Who may live to tell the tale is a very different question." Then,
as his captains rose from the council to go to their respective ships, he
added: "Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage or
Westminster Abbey." His quick eye and daring spirit saw an
opportunity of glorious victory where others saw only probable defeat.
"Is it POSSIBLE to cross the path?" asked Napoleon of the engineers
who had been