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Success: Quotations from Burning Words

While the man before had climbed, on sharp, flinty precipices, slippery, abysmal; in darkness, seen by no kindred eye, - amid the brood of dragons; and his heart many times was like to fail within him, in his loneliness, in his extreme need; yet he climbed and climbed, gluing his footsteps in his blood ; and now behold, Hyperion-like, he has scaled the height, and on the summit shakes his glittering shafts of war! What a scene and new kingdom for him; all bathed in auroral radiance of Hope; far-stretching, solemn, joyful; what wild Memnon's music, from the depths of nature comes toning through the soul raised suddenly out of strangling death into victory and life! Success is full of promise till men get it ; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown. --— H. W. BEECHER