The Motto Book: Being a Collection of EpigramsThe Roycrofters, 1920 - 67 pages |
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... keep the peace . He who scrappeth not with his neighbor , and shutteth up and closeth his gob , is getting a cinch on the fore- manship . And the foreman who smothereth a feud , and turneth the hose on the clique , is already engaged to ...
... keep the peace . He who scrappeth not with his neighbor , and shutteth up and closeth his gob , is getting a cinch on the fore- manship . And the foreman who smothereth a feud , and turneth the hose on the clique , is already engaged to ...
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... keep a few friends , but these without capitulation ; above all , on the same grim condition , to keep friends with him- self , here is a task for all that man has of fortitude and delicacy . - Robert Louis Steven- son . 16 - Be gentle and ...
... keep a few friends , but these without capitulation ; above all , on the same grim condition , to keep friends with him- self , here is a task for all that man has of fortitude and delicacy . - Robert Louis Steven- son . 16 - Be gentle and ...
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... keep his or her body beautiful through right thinking and right living . I believe that the love of man for woman , and the love of woman for man , is holy ; and that this love in all of its promptings is as much an emanation of the ...
... keep his or her body beautiful through right thinking and right living . I believe that the love of man for woman , and the love of woman for man , is holy ; and that this love in all of its promptings is as much an emanation of the ...
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... keep your kindness in water - tight compartments - if it runs over a bit ' t will do no harm . 31 - DON'T BE A KNOCKER : If you work for a man , in heaven's name , work for him . If he pays wages that supply you your bread and butter ...
... keep your kindness in water - tight compartments - if it runs over a bit ' t will do no harm . 31 - DON'T BE A KNOCKER : If you work for a man , in heaven's name , work for him . If he pays wages that supply you your bread and butter ...
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... keeps a record in his cupboard Of victims of the monarch's hate ; " A million men and Elbert Hubbard , " So goes the tally , up to date . If it would bring you back , Elbertus , To twang your harp with golden strings , It would not ...
... keeps a record in his cupboard Of victims of the monarch's hate ; " A million men and Elbert Hubbard , " So goes the tally , up to date . If it would bring you back , Elbertus , To twang your harp with golden strings , It would not ...
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.