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"Royal road" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mrs. Booth became a great speaker all in a moment, or by any 'royal road.' She started when about eighteen, as many a Corps Cadet has since done, by just taking a class or Company on Sundays, never dreaming of doing more. An elder girls' Company was given to her; and she had fifteen girls to teach, whose ages ...

— Catherine Booth - A Sketch • Colonel Mildred Duff

... for the determined man. You will find no royal road to your triumph. There is no open door ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... her route through life had been surveyed and carefully laid out, what was there more for her in life than to set out upon her progress? It was her own road. Presumptive leader already, logical leader from the day she married—leader, in fact, when the ukase, her future legacy, so decreed; it was a royal road laid out for her through the gardens and pleasant places; a road for her alone, and over it she had chosen to pass. What more was there ...

— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers

... which the average mind must wait for its own light. These souls that move by great tides often reach sublime heights. The world would be poor, indeed, without their all-compelling enthusiasms, their glorious visions, and their dominant convictions. But such ones must not forget that there is no royal road to truth; that human nature is not cast in one single, unvarying mold; diversity is not ...

— Levels of Living - Essays on Everyday Ideals • Henry Frederick Cope

... were packed very quickly into the carts, and the carts were driven up the beach and across the Royal road, and into a track which ...

— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason

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