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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Page 72
... given energy , and not spinning it out into tenuous spider threads so fragile and filmy that unkind Fate will probably brush it away . To do your work well to - day , is the certain preparation for something better to - morrow . The ...
... given energy , and not spinning it out into tenuous spider threads so fragile and filmy that unkind Fate will probably brush it away . To do your work well to - day , is the certain preparation for something better to - morrow . The ...
Page 87
... given us Nora Hebler , a Disagreeable Girl of mature age , who , beyond a doubt , first set George Bernard Shaw a - thinking . Then looking about , Shaw saw her at every turn in every stage of her moth - and - butterfly existence . And ...
... given us Nora Hebler , a Disagreeable Girl of mature age , who , beyond a doubt , first set George Bernard Shaw a - thinking . Then looking about , Shaw saw her at every turn in every stage of her moth - and - butterfly existence . And ...
Page 95
... given a taste of the stocks in the public square . When corporations were formed for the first time , only a few years ago , there was a fine burst of disapproval The corporation was declared a scheme of oppression , a hungry octopus ...
... given a taste of the stocks in the public square . When corporations were formed for the first time , only a few years ago , there was a fine burst of disapproval The corporation was declared a scheme of oppression , a hungry octopus ...
Page 107
... given unto you the sublime blessings of Sympathy and Knowledge , there will come to you the wish to reveal your gratitude by giving them out again ; for the wise man is aware that we retain spiritual qualities only as we give them away ...
... given unto you the sublime blessings of Sympathy and Knowledge , there will come to you the wish to reveal your gratitude by giving them out again ; for the wise man is aware that we retain spiritual qualities only as we give them away ...
Page 110
... given her too much for nothing . This truth is a reversible , back - action one , well lubricated by use , working both ways - as the case may be . Nobody but a beggar has really definite ideas concerning his rights . People who give ...
... given her too much for nothing . This truth is a reversible , back - action one , well lubricated by use , working both ways - as the case may be . Nobody but a beggar has really definite ideas concerning his rights . People who give ...
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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 54 - 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. 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 - 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. 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.
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 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 20 - ... death come and the sky shut down over less worth in the world; or stupid misunderstanding and crushing defeat grind you into the dust, then you may arise, forgetting time and space and self, and take refuge in mansions not made with hands; and find a certain sad, sweet satisfaction in the contemplation of treasures stored up where moth and rust do not corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal.
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 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...