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Orison Swett Marden:Pushing to the Front, Excerpt 324

Orison Swett Marden《Pushing to the Front》· Pushing to the Front · Leadership

Young Linnaeus was called by his teachers almost a blockhead. Not finding him fit for the church, his parents sent him to college to study medicine. But the silent teacher within, greater and wiser than all others, led him to the fields; and neither sickness, misfortune, nor poverty could drive him from the study of botany, the choice of his heart, and he became the greatest botanist of his age.

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Locator:Excerpt 324 · Verified:2026-10-19 · Verification:Short excerpt

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