The Philistine, Volume 18Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard The Society, 1903 |
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... beautiful that aspires high . A square tower of bricks is as beautiful as a square tower of bricks . A gorgeous entrance over - dazzles a multitude of shams . When the front of a structure is as the wall , the wall would do as the front ...
... beautiful that aspires high . A square tower of bricks is as beautiful as a square tower of bricks . A gorgeous entrance over - dazzles a multitude of shams . When the front of a structure is as the wall , the wall would do as the front ...
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... beautiful houses , and then take them all apart at the end of the week , so another gang can begin anew . Their hearts are not in their work — it is all pre- tence , and they never for a moment forget it . The best way to learn to be ...
... beautiful houses , and then take them all apart at the end of the week , so another gang can begin anew . Their hearts are not in their work — it is all pre- tence , and they never for a moment forget it . The best way to learn to be ...
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... and all of our most beautiful flowers once grew some- where , wild . Man can be transplanted , but not very far north or south . All of the great men that this earth has produced have come from a little strip THE PHI- 74.
... and all of our most beautiful flowers once grew some- where , wild . Man can be transplanted , but not very far north or south . All of the great men that this earth has produced have come from a little strip THE PHI- 74.
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... beautiful than the most fascinating face . " To have broken a statute is not necessarily a disgrace , as the making and enforcement of law is often prompted and accompanied by such unworthy motives as hate , jealousy , desire to get ...
... beautiful than the most fascinating face . " To have broken a statute is not necessarily a disgrace , as the making and enforcement of law is often prompted and accompanied by such unworthy motives as hate , jealousy , desire to get ...
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... beautiful and right . Heaven to a Cloverite is a place where he can just sit around and josh St. Peter and take falls out of the angels by gentle gibes concern- ing their robes and music , for the amusement of the guests . In Heaven the ...
... beautiful and right . Heaven to a Cloverite is a place where he can just sit around and josh St. Peter and take falls out of the angels by gentle gibes concern- ing their robes and music , for the amusement of the guests . In Heaven the ...
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Page 146 - That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 55 - When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince, When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter, When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions, I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
Page 178 - ... yes! He is not so very clever, his trousers bag at the knee and his sleeves are too short, but his heart has but one desire, to do his work.
Page 26 - One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Page 54 - When the psalm sings instead of the singer, When the script preaches instead of the preacher, When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk...
Page 59 - The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and honors, for but one thing. And that is Initiative. What is Initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told. But next to doing the thing without being told is to do it when you are told once.
Page 94 - Do instantly whatever is to be done, and take the hours of recreation after business, never before it. When a regiment is under march, the rear is often thrown into confusion because the front do not move steadily and without interruption. It is the same with business.
Page 94 - ... never before it. When a regiment is under march, the rear is often thrown into confusion because the front do not move steadily and without interruption. It is the same thing with business. If that which is first in hand is not instantly, steadily, and regularly despatched, other things accumulate behind till affairs begin to press all at once, and no human brain can stand the confusion.
Page 59 - Next, there are those who do the right thing only when necessity kicks them from behind, and these get indifference instead of honors, and a pittance for pay. This kind spends most of its time polishing a bench with a hard-luck story.
Page 35 - ... Continent it is worse. The ten thousand art students of Paris are Remittance Men. And they do not make artists, excepting as one in five thousand, like people who live down a consumptive taint. Jean Francois Millet is the type that makes the artist. Weary Willie and Cave-o'-the-Winds are possessed with the idea that the world owes them a living — and they go from house to house to collect it. The typical Educated Person is full of the same thought — the world must feed and clothe him. If...