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 35
... prisons are to be believed . Fay Mills , according to Reverend Doctor McIntyre has all the virtues - he is forgiving , kind , gentle , modest , helpful . But Fay has abandoned the fetich - hence McIntyre and Chapman call upon the public ...
... prisons are to be believed . Fay Mills , according to Reverend Doctor McIntyre has all the virtues - he is forgiving , kind , gentle , modest , helpful . But Fay has abandoned the fetich - hence McIntyre and Chapman call upon the public ...
Page 131
... prison " had a depressing effect , and " penitentiary " throws a theological shadow , and so the words will have to go . As our ideas of the criminal change , we change our vocabulary . A few years ago we talked about asylums for the ...
... prison " had a depressing effect , and " penitentiary " throws a theological shadow , and so the words will have to go . As our ideas of the criminal change , we change our vocabulary . A few years ago we talked about asylums for the ...
Page 133
... prison life of its horror , by holding out hope . The man has the short time constantly in mind , and usually is very careful not to do anything to imperil it . Insurrection and an attempt to escape may mean that every day of the whole ...
... prison life of its horror , by holding out hope . The man has the short time constantly in mind , and usually is very careful not to do anything to imperil it . Insurrection and an attempt to escape may mean that every day of the whole ...
Page 134
... prison were unable to do anything - they needed constant supervision and attention , and so of course we did not care to hire them . The Ex . now is a totally different man from the Ex . just out of his striped suit in the seventies ...
... prison were unable to do anything - they needed constant supervision and attention , and so of course we did not care to hire them . The Ex . now is a totally different man from the Ex . just out of his striped suit in the seventies ...
Page 135
... prison , which is really not a prison at the last , for it is a school where the lad is taught to economize both time and money and to make himself useful . Other people work for us , and we must work for them . This is the supreme ...
... prison , which is really not a prison at the last , for it is a school where the lad is taught to economize both time and money and to make himself useful . Other people work for us , and we must work for them . This is the supreme ...
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Page 54 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 53 - I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during...
Page 97 - Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue: On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.
Page 57 - I think if I worked for a man, I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of his time, but all of his time; I would give an undivided service or none.
Page 54 - What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit...
Page 54 - ... and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now beware of rashness ; beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN.
Page 55 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you, I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now beware of rashness; beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 57 - If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution — not that — but when you disparage the concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself.
Page 33 - Jesus took in his arms and said, " Of such is the kingdom of heaven...
Page 53 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable if not an indispensable quality. You...