CONTENTS.

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I.	[WANTED—A MAN] God after a man. Wealth is nothing, fame is nothing. Manhood is everything.
II.	[DARE] Dare to live thy creed. Conquer your place in the world. All things serve a brave soul.
III.	[THE WILL AND THE WAY] Find a way or make one. Everything is either pusher or pushed. The world always listens to a man with a will in him.
IV.	[SUCCESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES] There is scarcely a great truth or doctrine but has had to fight its way to recognition through detraction, calumny, and persecution.
V.	[USES OR OBSTACLES] The Great Sculptor cares little for the human block as such; it is the statue He is after; and He will blast, hammer, and chisel with poverty, hardships, anything to get out the man.
VI.	[ONE UNWAVERING AIM] Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Try to be somebody with all your might.
VII.	[SOWING AND REAPING] What is put into the first of life is put into the whole of life. Start right.
VIII.	[SELF-HELP] Self-made or never made. The greatest men have risen from the ranks.
IX.	[WORK AND WAIT] Don't risk a life's superstructure upon a day's foundation.
X.	[CLEAR GRIT] The goddess of fame or of fortune has been won by many a poor boy who had no friends, no backing, or anything but pure grit and invincible purpose to commend him.
XI.	[THE GRANDEST THING IN THE WORLD] Manhood is above all riches and overtops all titles; character is greater than any career.
XII.	[WEALTH IN ECONOMY] "Hunger, rags, cold, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt is infinitely worse than all."
XIII.	[RICH WITHOUT MONEY] To have nothing is not poverty. Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
XIV.	[OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE] "How speaks the present hour? Act." Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
XV.	[THE MIGHT OF LITTLE THINGS] There is nothing small in a world where a mud-crack swells to an Amazon, and the stealing of a penny may end on the scaffold.
XVI.	[SELF-MASTERY] Guard your weak point. Be lord over yourself.