Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them

Apelles, the great artist, traveled all over Greece for years, studying the fairest points of beautiful women, getting here an eye, there a forehead, and there a nose, here a grace and there a turn of beauty, for his famous portrait of a perfect woman which enchanted the world. It was not a portrait, not an imaginary ideal head, but a composite, a combination from the most perfect features he could find. By combining the perfect points, the graceful curves, the lines of beauty of many individuals, he made his wonderful painting. The great artist knew that all elements of beauty and perfection of physical form could not be found in one person. He knew, too, that some of the most perfect features and beautiful curves would be found in women who were on the whole anything but beautifulperhaps repulsive. The editors of this volume have been for many years in quest of the elements of a grand, healthy, symmetrical, successful manthe ideal man. They knew at the beginning that it would be impossible to find any one man who would illustrate all these points of perfection, who would combine in perfect degree all the success qualities, but they have found in scores of men who have achieved something worth while qualities which, put together, would make a composite ideal man, a man[9] who, in the evolution of civilization, will, perhaps, sometime be possible. Usually, in men who have risen to eminence, some one quality or virtue shines conspicuous, often accompanied with defects, perhaps great weakness, which, to gain the lesson, we must ignore. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 48174
Author: Marden, Orison Swett
Release Date: Feb 10, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924