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

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.

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

William Mathews
Law, Focus, Bed

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

[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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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