{"product_id":"2940012405470","title":"HIDDEN TREASURES","description":"\"Not Failure, but low aim is crime.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history\u003cbr\u003etells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor.\u003cbr\u003eAs our title indicates, we shall endeavor to show \"why some succeed\u003cbr\u003ewhile others fail.\" Knowing that everybody desires success, and\u003cbr\u003erecognizing the old adage, \"Example is the best of teachers,\" we have\u003cbr\u003eselected representative characters from the multitude of successful men\u003cbr\u003ewho have climbed the ladder of success, beginning at the bottom round.\u003cbr\u003eThese we have followed from childhood to manhood, dwelling at length on\u003cbr\u003ethe traits of character that have made them so rich and successful,\u003cbr\u003ebelieving that a careful study will convince all that the proverbial\u003cbr\u003e\"luck\" had little to do with it. On the contrary, one is taught those\u003cbr\u003elessons of self-helpfulness and self-reliance which are so essential to\u003cbr\u003esuccess in life's struggles. It is fearful to think how many of our\u003cbr\u003eyoung people are drifting without an aim in life, and do not comprehend\u003cbr\u003ethat they owe mankind their best efforts. We are all familiar with the\u003cbr\u003eparable of the slothful servant who buried his talent--all may profit by\u003cbr\u003ehis example. To those who would succeed, we respectfully present this\u003cbr\u003evolume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Every young man is now a sower of seed on the field of life. The bright\u003cbr\u003edays of youth are the seed-time. Every thought of your intellect, every\u003cbr\u003eemotion of your heart, every word of your tongue, every principle you\u003cbr\u003eadopt, every act you perform, is a seed, whose good or evil fruit will\u003cbr\u003eprove bliss or bane of your after life._--WISE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDear reader, it is a grave undertaking to write a book, especially is it\u003cbr\u003eso in writing a treatise on success and failure, as we have attempted to\u003cbr\u003edo in the work we hereby present you. It is a solemn thing to give\u003cbr\u003eadvice. Experience teaches that no one thing will please everybody; that\u003cbr\u003emen's censures are as various as their palates; that some are as deeply\u003cbr\u003ein love with vice as others are with virtue. Shall I then make myself\u003cbr\u003ethe subject of every opinion, wise or weak? Yes, I would rather hazard\u003cbr\u003ethe censure of some than hinder the good of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere need neither reasons to be given nor apologies to be made where\u003cbr\u003ethe benefit of our fellow-men is our aim. Henry Clay Trumbull says: \"At\u003cbr\u003eno time in the world's history, probably, has there been so general an\u003cbr\u003einterest in biography as that which has been shown of late. Just here\u003cbr\u003elies a weighty obligation upon these who write, and those who read, of\u003cbr\u003ethe lives of men who have done something in the world. It is not enough\u003cbr\u003efor us to know WHAT they have done; it belongs to us to discover the WHY\u003cbr\u003eof their works and ways, and to gain some personal benefit from the\u003cbr\u003eanalysis of their successes and failures. Why was this man great? What\u003cbr\u003egeneral intentions--what special traits led him to success? What ideal\u003cbr\u003estood before him, and by what means did he seek to attain it? Or, on the\u003cbr\u003eother hand, what unworthy purpose, what lack of conscience and religious\u003cbr\u003esense, what unsettled method and feeble endeavor stood in the way of the\u003cbr\u003e'man of genius' and his possible achievements?\" In this volume one sees\u003cbr\u003ethe barefoot boy rise to the eminent statesman, the great millionaire,\u003cbr\u003ethe honored inventor. How was this accomplished? We believe that a\u003cbr\u003ecareful study of the different characters, by the light of the author's\u003cbr\u003eopinion of the characteristics essential to success, as shown in\u003cbr\u003eDepartment Fifth, will show why they succeeded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet the reader follow each character separately, from childhood to\u003cbr\u003emanhood, noting carefully the different changes in the career of each\u003cbr\u003eand the motives which actuated and brought them about. If this book\u003cbr\u003eshall serve to awaken dormant energies in ONE PERSON who might otherwise\u003cbr\u003ehave failed, we shall feel abundantly repaid. Doubtless, there are\u003cbr\u003eothers who are better qualified to write a treatise on such a subject;\u003cbr\u003enevertheless, we have done our best, and this done, we have attained\u003cbr\u003esuccess.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175250641136,"sku":"2940012405470","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012405470_p0.jpg?v=1763568422","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012405470","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}