General Reportthe Society, 1921 |
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1917 SARANAC LAKE Alexander Hume Allen Hutchinson annual meeting August August 24 beautiful Bixby Bookplate bronze charm Colonel Scott Colonel Walter Scott copy courage Daughters of Scotia David Balfour Dear Edinburgh friends gathering genius Gutzon Borglum heart honor Honorary interest Isobel Field James John Jules Simoneau Kinghorn Lawrason Brown letter literary lived Livingston Chapman Lloyd Osbourne Louis Stevenson Club Master of Ballantrae membership Memorial Cottage Memoriam Menstrie never Order of Scottish Powis Presbytery present President printed R. L. Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson Samoa Saranac Lake Scot Scotland Scottish Clans Secretary shrine Sidney Colvin signed sincerely Society of America South Seas spirit Stephen Chalmers Steven Stevenson Cottage Stevenson Memorial Stevenson Society story tablet talk telegram thank thing to-day Trudeau Vailima William Alexander William Morris writing wrote York
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Page 41 - Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 10 - It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Page 33 - All night long he can hear Nature breathing deeply and freely ; even as she takes her rest she turns and smiles; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the out-door world are on their feet.
Page 27 - Now the man who has his heart on his sleeve, and a good whirling weathercock of a brain, who reckons his life as a thing to be dashingly used and cheerfully hazarded, makes a very different acquaintance of the world, keeps all his pulses going true and fast, and gathers impetus as he runs, until, if he be running towards anything better than wildfire, he may shoot up and become a constellation in the end.
Page 18 - We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep. And now you are to ask yourself if, when all is done, you would not have been better to sit by the fire at home, and be happy thinking. To sit still and contemplate, - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what you are - is not this to know both wisdom and virtue, and...
Page 27 - To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Page 33 - Nature breathing deeply and freely; even as she takes her rest, she turns and smiles; and there is one stirring hour, unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the outdoor world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows; not this time to announce the dawn, but, like a cheerful watchman, speeding the course of night. Cattle awake on the meadows; sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides, and change to a new lair among...
Page 29 - Go with each of us to rest; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns, return to us, our sun and comforter, and call us up with morning faces and with morning hearts— eager to labour— eager to be happy, if happiness shall be our portion— and if the day be marked for sorrow, strong to endure it.
Page 3 - SCRIBNER,— Heaven help me, I am under a curse just now. I have played fast and loose with what I said to you; and that, I beg you to believe, in the purest innocence of mind. I told you...
Page 27 - In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is on duty here; he knows not how or why, and does not need to know; he knows not for what hire, and must not ask.