Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Brave Men and Women, by O.E. Fuller This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs Author: O.E. Fuller Release Date: November 3, 2004 [EBook #13942] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN *** Produced by Kevin Handy, John Hagerson, and the the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team Brave sons and daughters of Time Pause not on their journey sublime. [pg 1] BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN Their Struggles, Failures, and Triumphs. BY O.E. FULLER, A.M. "Find out what you are fitted for; work hard at that one thing, and keep a brave, honest heart." [pg 2] COPYRIGHT By O.E. FULLER 1884 All rights reserved. [pg 3] PREFACE Struggle, failure, triumph: while triumph is the thing sought, struggle has its joy, and failure is not without its uses. "It is not the goal," says Jean Paul, "but the course which makes us happy." The law of life is what a great orator affirmed of oratory--"Action, action, action!" As soon as one point is gained, another, and another presents itself. "It is a mistake," says Samuel Smiles, "to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure.