ND FOR SOMETHING
XLVI. NATURE'S LITTLE BILL
XLVII. HABIT--THE SERVANT,--THE MASTER
XLVIII. THE CIGARETTE
XLIX. THE POWER OF PURITY
L. THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS
LI. PUT BEAUTY INTO YOUR LIFE
LII. EDUCATION BY ABSORPTION
LIII. THE POWER OF SUGGESTION
LIV. THE CURSE OF WORRY
LV. TAKE A PLEASANT THOUGHT TO BED WITH YOU
LVI. THE CONQUEST OF POVERTY
LVII. A NEW WAY OF BRINGING UP CHILDREN
LVIII. THE HOME AS A SCHOOL OF GOOD MANNERS
LIX. MOTHER
LX. WHY SO MANY MARRIED WOMEN DETERIORATE
LXI. THRIFT
LXII. A COLLEGE EDUCATION AT HOME
LXIII. DISCRIMINATION IN READING
LXIV. READING A SPUR TO AMBITION
LXV. WHY SOME SUCCEED AND OTHERS FAIL
LXVI. RICH WITHOUT MONEY

ILLUSTRATIONS

Orison Swett Marden . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

House in which Abraham Lincoln was born

Ulysses S. Grant

William Ewart Gladstone

John Wanamaker

Jane Addams

Thomas Alva Edison

Henry Ward Beecher

Lincoln studying by the firelight

Marshall Field

Joseph Jefferson [Transcriber's note: Jefferson was a prominent actor
during the latter half of the 1800's.]

Theodore Roosevelt

Helen Keller

William McKinley

Julia Ward Howe

Mark Twain

PUSHING TO THE FRONT

CHAPTER I

THE MAN AND THE OPPORTUNITY

No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him.--LOWELL.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them
up.--GARFIELD.

Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon
opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its
utmost of possible achievement--these are the martial virtues which
must command success.--AUSTIN PHELPS.

"I will find a way or make one."

There never was a day that did not bring its own opportunity for doing
good that never could have been done before, and never can be
again.--W. H. BURLEIGH.

"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can, _begin_ it."

"If we succeed, what will the world say?" asked Captain Berry in
delight, when Nelson had explained his carefully formed plan before the
battle of the Nile.

"There is no if in the case," replied Nelson. "That we shall succeed
is certain. Who may live to tell the tale is a very different
question." Then, as his captains rose from the council to go to their
respective ships, he added: "Before this time to-morrow I shall have