The Motto Book: Being a Collection of EpigramsThe Roycrofters, 1920 - 67 pages |
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... earth- The swart brow , diamonded with sweat , Hath never need of coronet And do I reach Dear Lord , to Thee , And do beseech Thou givest me The wee cot , and the cricket's chirr , illum . plain Love , and the glad sweet face of her ...
... earth- The swart brow , diamonded with sweat , Hath never need of coronet And do I reach Dear Lord , to Thee , And do beseech Thou givest me The wee cot , and the cricket's chirr , illum . plain Love , and the glad sweet face of her ...
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... earth . 87a - The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride ; the threshold high enough to turn deceit aside ; the door - band strong enough from robbers to defend : this door will open at a touch to welcome every friend . -Van Dyke ...
... earth . 87a - The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride ; the threshold high enough to turn deceit aside ; the door - band strong enough from robbers to defend : this door will open at a touch to welcome every friend . -Van Dyke ...
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... have no- ticed , is strongly implanted in the Elk nature . Your Elk never weeps over his own troubles , illum . plain .50 .25 .50 .25 .25 .15 .50 .25 No. but for the stricken souls of earth his tears 49 No. Each Each.
... have no- ticed , is strongly implanted in the Elk nature . Your Elk never weeps over his own troubles , illum . plain .50 .25 .50 .25 .25 .15 .50 .25 No. but for the stricken souls of earth his tears 49 No. Each Each.
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... earth his tears of pity are near the surface . The Elk loves children , respects old age , and so far as I have seen does n't incline especially toward indifference to feminine charms . In many instances , I have imagined the Elk ...
... earth his tears of pity are near the surface . The Elk loves children , respects old age , and so far as I have seen does n't incline especially toward indifference to feminine charms . In many instances , I have imagined the Elk ...
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... earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others . 143 - There is so much good in the worst of us , and so much bad in the best of us , that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us . -Stevenson . 144 - There may ...
... earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others . 143 - There is so much good in the worst of us , and so much bad in the best of us , that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us . -Stevenson . 144 - There may ...
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15½ inches Ali Baba Baba beautiful believe better Brave Adm'r'l cheer condemn Davy Jones Death desire to radiate disparage the concern Elbert Hubbard end I pray eternally disparage face any obstacle faith fear forget Fra Elbertus friends greased plank greater your reward happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart Hebe honest honors illum inches On Italian injure the institution-not institution-not that-but Italian Handmade Joaquin Miller John Ruskin keep kind know is man's laugh less you require live Louis Stevenson loyal loyalty is worth mottoes night obstacle and meet ounce of loyalty plain 25 plain 50 pound of cleverness power.-Elbert Hubbard right thing rightly lend Robert Louis Stevenson ROYCROFTERS Ruskin sail serving class shalt soul speak spend spirit stars sweet takes thee thou told truth wages that supply Walt Whitman William Morris work.-Elbert Hubbard worth a pound
Popular passages
Page 14 - The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. "What shall I say, brave Adm'r'l, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn?" "Why, you shall say at break of day: 'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
Page 15 - Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!" Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck — A light! a light! a light! a light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!
Page 15 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.
Page 56 - TO go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with' me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
Page 35 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.
Page 15 - They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: " This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. He curls his lip, he lies in wait. With lifted teeth, as if to bite! Brave admiral, say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone? " The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! Sail on! Sail on, and on!
Page 25 - He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Page 40 - MY STAR. ALL that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw (Like the angled spar) Now a dart of red, Now a dart of blue; Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the blue! Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled: They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it. What matter to me if their star is a world? Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.
Page 49 - THE day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonoured, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
Page 29 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.