Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions, Reasonably Good-natvred, Concerning how to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to OthersThe Roycrofters, 1906 - 149 pages |
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Page 25
... hold our minds in thrall . This idea of a divine bankrupt court where you can get forgiveness by paying ten cents on the dollar , with the guaranty of becoming a winged pauper of the skies , is not alluring excepting to a man who has ...
... hold our minds in thrall . This idea of a divine bankrupt court where you can get forgiveness by paying ten cents on the dollar , with the guaranty of becoming a winged pauper of the skies , is not alluring excepting to a man who has ...
Page 30
... and to help matters along he is assured that he is not fit to think for himself , and to do so would be a sin . Man , in his present crude state , holds somewhat the same attitude toward reason that an Apache Indian 30 Love , Life and Work.
... and to help matters along he is assured that he is not fit to think for himself , and to do so would be a sin . Man , in his present crude state , holds somewhat the same attitude toward reason that an Apache Indian 30 Love , Life and Work.
Page 31
... holds toward a camera - the Indian thinks that to have his picture taken means that he will shrivel up and blow away in a month . And Stanley relates that a watch with its constant ticking sent the bravest of Congo chiefs into a cold ...
... holds toward a camera - the Indian thinks that to have his picture taken means that he will shrivel up and blow away in a month . And Stanley relates that a watch with its constant ticking sent the bravest of Congo chiefs into a cold ...
Page 44
... hold is full of iron ore ; when we hate , we have unshipped the rudder ; and if ever we stop to meditate on what the gossips say , we have allowed a hawser to foul the screw . Keep your mind on the great and splendid thing you would ...
... hold is full of iron ore ; when we hate , we have unshipped the rudder ; and if ever we stop to meditate on what the gossips say , we have allowed a hawser to foul the screw . Keep your mind on the great and splendid thing you would ...
Page 46
... hold on the forces of the universe , you are strong with them . And when you realize this , all else is easy , for in your arteries will course red corpuscles , and in your heart the determined resolution is born to do and to be . Carry ...
... hold on the forces of the universe , you are strong with them . And when you realize this , all else is easy , for in your arteries will course red corpuscles , and in your heart the determined resolution is born to do and to be . Carry ...
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