The University of Hard Knocks
Life's
s that are
not the million. Perhaps it would make us lazy, selfish and unhappy. Perhaps we
oney, but how to get rid of money
t and then look at the tabby cat. The wild cat supports itself and the tab
of us we would go to wreck. Necessit
in preparing? Do you ever think of the times that orator tried to speak when he failed and went back to his room in disgr
hink of the years of struggle and overcoming necessary to produce that finish and g
ce the weakest peoples? Do you note that the conquering races are those that
disguise. People go to the devil with full pockets; they turn to God when hunger hits them. "Is not this Babylon that I have builded?" says the
heir heads before they can think, knock them down before they can stand, break
l before he would write his immortal "Pilgrim's Progress"? It ma
c the world will always hear? Do you remember that one author beca
d before he could see the way to real success. He had to be scourged and fettered to become the Apostle to the Gentiles. He, too, had to
hat success is ever the phoenix
diplomas in your hands, and when your relatives and friends say, "Success to you!" I
only way to say,
the Mo
year. We learn that you are cruel only to be kind. We learn that you are
eat bump that struck me one morning in Los Angeles. It seemed as th
thought I had nothing more to live for. When a dog is wounded he crawls away alone to
Mount Lowe that day.
Canyon, to the engineering miracle, the triangular car that hoists them out of the hungry
winds five miles on towards the sky. There is hardly a straight rail in the track. Every minute a new thrill,
is life depends upon the honesty of the man who drove the nails. He may wonder if the man was working by the day or by the job! He looks over the edg
farther upward. This is not the summit, but just where science surrenders. There is a little trail th
ocabulary. It must be lived. On a pure, clear day one looks down this sixty-one hundred feet, more than a mile, into the orange belt of Southern California. It spreads out be
fic Ocean, on westward the faint outlines of Catalina Islands. The ocean seems so close one could throw a p
granite mountains rise higher to the northward, and to the east rises
the workshops o
he summit and looked down into the swimming distances. I did not know why I had struggled up into that
down upon clouds. I thought of the cloud that had covered me in the
gone." But I saw the truth-the sun was shining. The sky was in place. A cloud had covered down over that first mile. The sun was shining upon me, the sky was
tormswept soul. I am under the clouds o
up the mounta
sun shining above them. No matter how black and sunless today, when I have struggled on up the mountai
I look back I see more clearly the plan of a human life. The rocks, the curves and the struggles fit into a divine engineering plan to soften the steepness of the ascent.
st that bump. The years have passed and I now know it was one of the greatest blessings of
st and I could see the sun going down. I could see him sink lower and lower until his red lips kissed the cheek of the Pacific. The glory
re saying, "The sun doesn't shine." But it was not night where I stood. I was farther up the mountain. I turned and looked up to the summ
n so
ans, go
the storm? Go on upward. Are y
always above the storm and the
go together. Mount Lowe showed the way that da
spread over all this valley of materi
ht, as I am learning to climb and look down upon the storms. I sha
the Mountain of Infinite Unfolding. I shall have risen perhaps
mber on up. "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into th
old. We are going
and Go
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s of Life Turni
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ss is that of getting our happiness now i
at big boost for everybody who will read it. People ought
"The Big Business of Life is a real joy to read. It is big and ought to be read t
too seriously, and that to them it is a joyless, cheerless thing? To be able to find happiness, and to find it when we are bending to our duties is to possess the secret of living to the full. And happiness is to be sought within, and not among the things
at they think it is even better than "The University of
Up To
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ation of
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short stories adapted from chapters
and Nuts is just as good as the Message to Garcia and will be handed around just us much. I have handed the book to business men, to young fellows, bond sal
ess are buying quantities of "It
booklet "Go On South": "It is one
hildren and I read the Mississippi River st
s to your friends. It will delight them
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