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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... superstition , like a syphilitic taint . To eradicate this tyranny of fear and get the cringe and crawl out of our natures , seems the one desirable thing to lofty minds But the revivalist , knowing human nature , as all confidence men ...
... superstition , like a syphilitic taint . To eradicate this tyranny of fear and get the cringe and crawl out of our natures , seems the one desirable thing to lofty minds But the revivalist , knowing human nature , as all confidence men ...
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... superstition One would think that the promise of making a person exempt from the results of his own misdeeds , would turn the man of brains from these religious shell - men in disgust . But under their hypnotic spell , the minds of many ...
... superstition One would think that the promise of making a person exempt from the results of his own misdeeds , would turn the man of brains from these religious shell - men in disgust . But under their hypnotic spell , the minds of many ...
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... superstition of so long life . Superstition is the one Infamy - Voltaire was right . To pretend to believe a thing at which your reason revolts - to stultify your intellect— this , if it exists at all , is the unpardonable sin . These ...
... superstition of so long life . Superstition is the one Infamy - Voltaire was right . To pretend to believe a thing at which your reason revolts - to stultify your intellect— this , if it exists at all , is the unpardonable sin . These ...
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... superstition of his wavering and frightened followers . The revival meetin ' is an orgie of the soul , a spiritual debauch — a dropping from sane and sensible control into eroticism . No person of normal intelligence can afford to throw ...
... superstition of his wavering and frightened followers . The revival meetin ' is an orgie of the soul , a spiritual debauch — a dropping from sane and sensible control into eroticism . No person of normal intelligence can afford to throw ...
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... superstition , or your beautiful life to them is a byword and a hissing . Hence , to them , superstition , and not conduct , is the vital thing . If such a belief is not fanaticism then have I read Webster's Unabridged Dictionary in ...
... superstition , or your beautiful life to them is a byword and a hissing . Hence , to them , superstition , and not conduct , is the vital thing . If such a belief is not fanaticism then have I read Webster's Unabridged Dictionary in ...
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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...