The Motto Book: Being a Collection of EpigramsThe Roycrofters, 1920 - 67 pages |
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... prejudice me either for or against you . What you have done or not done will not weigh in the scale . If you have been wise and prudent I congratulate illum . plain .25 .50 .25 No. you , unless you are unable to forget how 8 No. Each Each.
... prejudice me either for or against you . What you have done or not done will not weigh in the scale . If you have been wise and prudent I congratulate illum . plain .25 .50 .25 No. you , unless you are unable to forget how 8 No. Each Each.
Page 9
... forget how wise and good you are then I pity you . If you have stumbled and fallen and been mired in the mud , and have failed to be a friend to yourself , then you of all people need friend- ship , and I am your friend . I am the ...
... forget how wise and good you are then I pity you . If you have stumbled and fallen and been mired in the mud , and have failed to be a friend to yourself , then you of all people need friend- ship , and I am your friend . I am the ...
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... forget ; your vows of constancy , if they ever recur to you at all , may provoke but your tolerant smile ; but , by the gods , the fire of laughing , reckless Youth still runs riot in your veins , and I shall ever remember that when the ...
... forget ; your vows of constancy , if they ever recur to you at all , may provoke but your tolerant smile ; but , by the gods , the fire of laughing , reckless Youth still runs riot in your veins , and I shall ever remember that when the ...
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... forget ; but while the glamour lasted , its spell was transmuting , and that for which the Universe was created , was our unstinted portion . " And when Time has taken me so far that even Memory's voice can no longer awaken the heart to ...
... forget ; but while the glamour lasted , its spell was transmuting , and that for which the Universe was created , was our unstinted portion . " And when Time has taken me so far that even Memory's voice can no longer awaken the heart to ...
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... winds might blow , Until at last the blanched mate said : " Why , now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead . illum , plain .50 .25 .50 .25 These very winds forget their way , illum . plain 14 No. Each Each.
... winds might blow , Until at last the blanched mate said : " Why , now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead . illum , plain .50 .25 .50 .25 These very winds forget their way , illum . plain 14 No. Each Each.
Common terms and phrases
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.