Identifier: portraitsofemine01livi (find matches)
Title: Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Livingston, John. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States -- Biography
Publisher: New York, Cornish, Lamport & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ultiplies his business and increases his prosperity. 18. Aspiring after progress. It does not seem to be so much areaching after some definite point or object which he sees above or be-yond him, and which, for the time being, is the ultimatum of his desire,but when attained, is succeeded by another equally attractive—it doesnot seem to be with him so much this common characteristic of human HIRAM J. MINER, OF NETV YORK. 557 nature, as an insatiable desire to progress for the sake of progression.He strives to advance because he craves advancement. His motto em-phatically is Excelsior. It matters not what eminence he may reachin any respect, he struggles continually to go higher. This undyingzeal to improve, ascend, progress, combined with his other characteris-tics, as developed above, has raised him from the lowest point of pov-erty and obscurity to the honorable and affluent position which he nowoccupies, and bids fair to advance him onward and upward while hisfaculties remain. I I
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