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and Allowing Others to Be Promoted Instead of Yourself--No City Ever Withstood a Good Siege--Get into the Strong Sunshine of active Life--The Safe Time to Become Discontented--What Praise Means--What Gloomy Predictions Mean When Your Employer Makes Them--Practice--Example in Proof-Reading--Captains are Made out of First Lieutenants--The Retail Business--Fools Rushing in Where Angels Fear to Tread--The Successful Grocery--No Wonder Success Sits on That Corner--The Painter Who Mixed His Colors With Brains--Story of The Man Who Could Imitate Birds--Do not Attempt Impossible Journeys--Stop at Each Inn. Page 132.
Companions.
Truth of the adage that a Man Is Known by the Company He Keeps--Tam O'Shanter's Habits--Building a House With a Party-Wall--Playing Billiards at Noon-Time--Smelling of the Smoke of the Kitchen--Bar-Room Manners--Judging a Man by His Clothes--A Piece of Impertinence which Cost the Keeping of Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars--"The Companion of Fools Shall Be Destroyed"--Learn to Admire Rightly--Charm which the Look of Certain Loafers Has for Many Young Men--Getting a Sitting in Church--Keep in Company Where You Will Be Under a Pleasant Restraint--Either Wise Bearing or Ignorant Carriage Is Caught, as Men Take Diseases One from Another. Page 144.
On The Road.
Natural Depression--Certainty of Its Discontinuance--The Best Salesmen Have Been Very Soft-Hearted on Their Early Trips--Entering the Town--Riding One Block for Half a Dollar--A Poor Meal--Getting Your Wind--Planning the Charge--Canvassing Yourself--What Is the Almost Limitless Power of Persuasion?--Abraham Lincoln--The Whisky Which Made Generals Win Battles was the Kind of Whisky He Was in Search of--Your Dress--Your Entrance at Your Customer's Place--Your Speed in Getting Started--Your Ease after the Start Is Made--Never Stop the Customer--Your Perfect Accuracy as to Men and Places--Story of a Meteoric Salesman--Trouble of Putting a Stop to his Flight--Your Supper Tastes Good--The Men of Cold Exterior--Stay Out but Do not Stay Up--How to Get Vim and Sparkle--Extraordinary Value of a Man Who Can "Place Goods." Page 152.
Examples.
The Tracks of Giants--Napoleonic Miracles--Webster and Astor--George Peabody--Giving Away Eight Millions of Dollars--Stewart--Andrew Johnson--Barnum and Stanford--Ulysses S. Grant--Commodore Vanderbilt--Elihu Burritt--Edgar Poe--Greeley, Chase, Garfield and William Tecumseh Sherman--Tennyson--Robert E. Lee--Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg--James Gordon Bennett--Carlyle and Victor Hugo--Garibaldi --Agassiz, Humboldt, Proctor, Seward, Farragut, Nelson, Abercrombie, Joseph E. Johnston, Longstreet, and Fifty Others--The Habit of Riding Over Obstacles--Herodotus, Seneca and Franklin on the Power of Example--Christ Never Wrote a Tract--The System of Redoubling the Effort and Coming out, after one Victory, Ahead after Reckoning all Losses. Page 164.
Man.
Shakspeare's Eulogy, just as He Penned It--Emerson--A Columbus of the Skies--Carlyle's Panegyric--Whately--Man's Faults--Horace Man and Pascal--The Poet Cowley and Boileau--Fallacy of their Scoldings as Applied to all Humankind--What Is Man?--Plato's Answer--Addison's Answer--Burke's Answer--Adam Smith's Answer--Buffon's Failure to Make a Satisfactory Answer--Plutarch's Answer--"The Proper Study of Mankind is Man"--Henry Giles and John Ruskin--The Wonderful Instrument Called the Hand--The Violin Slave--Man's Opportunities--What God has Said of His Children--The Beautiful Language in Which It is Written--Nobility of Our Destiny--A Stinging Epigram. Page 175.
Woman.
The Hand That Made Woman Fair Made Her Good--Wordsworth's Beautiful lines to His Wife--"She Was a Phantom of Delight"--Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope"--A Pleasant Subject--The Difference Between Love in Man and Love in Woman--Jean Paul Richter's Encomium--Schiller's Tribute--Shelley--Shakspeare--Rousseau, Barrett and Balzac--The Duke of Halifax--Addison--Boyle--Sex in The Soul--Woman's Love of Ornament--Her Dress the Perfection of What Man Demands of Her--Dr. Johnson's Explanation--Testimony of John Ledyard to the Goodness of Woman--His History--Woman's Enormous Influence over Man--How Men Live Where There Are No Women--The History of Human Sickness a Monument of the Goodness of Woman. Page 187.
Father.
Overshadowing Antiquity of the Word "Papa"--The Pope Is Simply Papa, in Italian--Duties of the Son Toward the Father--Honesty of His Love for You--Patriarchal Government the Beginning and Still the Prop of Society--Old Age the Childhood of Immortality--Honor Attaching to Greatness of years in the past--Age Still a Necessity in Many of the Learned Professions--Age Is Indulgent Because It sees no Fault it Has not Itself Committed--Time the Harper, Laying His Hand Gently on the Harp of Life--Love of Little Children--The Village Blacksmith, the Mighty Man--Respect for Venerable Years a Fitting Thing in the Most Dignified of Young Men--Two Pictures, One Dark and the Other Bright. Page 197
Mother.
A Great Subject--Chords Struck by Coleridge and Tennyson--She Has Risked Her Life that Her Child Might Live--She Has Grown Spectre-Like that Her Child Might Wax Strong--She Has Forgotten the Debt Due to Her in Her Anxiety to Obtain an Acknowledgment of the Debt Due to God--Her Memory--Christmas--Her Sick Child--Man the Mighty at His Mother's Knee--The Best Friend--"An Ounce of Mother Worth a Pound of Clergy"--A Mother's Praise--The Dead--Unalterable Fidelity--Forgetting a Mother's Claims--The Mother Still in Middle Life--The Mother of Greater Years--The Mother of Mothers--She Gathered the Orphans Together and Poured Out Her Tenderness Upon Them. Page 207.
Love.
A Great Passion, Therefore not one to Trifle and Be Familiar With--Its Tyranny--Feelings and Actions of a Young Man in Love--Utter Uselessness for Business of a Young Man During the Uncertain Period Between Desire and Possession--Love Rules The Universe--How