Excerpt from The Golden Censer, or the Duties of to-Day and the Hopes of the Future Hard-pan Reason Why Nothing Succeeds So Well as Success - Your Good Fortune in Living on American Soil - Missing Battles and Allowing Others to Be Promoted Instead of Yourself - No City Ever Withstood a Good Siege - Get into the Strong Sunshine of active Life - The Safe Time to Become Discontented - What Praise Means - vvhat Gloomy Predictions Mean When Your Employer Makes Them - Practice - Example in proof-reading Captains are Made out of First Lieutenants - The Retail Business - fools Rushing in Where Angels Fear to Tread - The Successful Grocery - No Wonder Success Sits on That Corner - The Painter Who Mixed His Colors With Brains - Story of The Man Who Could Imitate Birds - Do not Attempt Impossible Journeys - Stop at Each Inn. Page 132. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.