An American BibleAlice Hubbard Roycrofters, 1918 - 372 pages |
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... kind , is the day's pro- gram he lives and recommends . ¶Economic freedom is the first necessity in human happi- ness . So Elbert Hubbard's first lesson is industry , produc ing wealth , using it wisely , distributing it . He knows ...
... kind , is the day's pro- gram he lives and recommends . ¶Economic freedom is the first necessity in human happi- ness . So Elbert Hubbard's first lesson is industry , produc ing wealth , using it wisely , distributing it . He knows ...
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... kind hand of Providence , or some guardian angel , or accidental favorable circumstances and situations , or all together , preserved me , through this dangerous time of youth , and the hazardous situations I was sometimes in among ...
... kind hand of Providence , or some guardian angel , or accidental favorable circumstances and situations , or all together , preserved me , through this dangerous time of youth , and the hazardous situations I was sometimes in among ...
Page 42
... none knew thee ; when in , thou dost not know thyself . Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven ; ' t is Scandalum Magnatum . ¶ He that builds before he counts the cost , 42 AN AMERICAN BIBLE.
... none knew thee ; when in , thou dost not know thyself . Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven ; ' t is Scandalum Magnatum . ¶ He that builds before he counts the cost , 42 AN AMERICAN BIBLE.
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... kind , sent from Marseilles to Charleston , for South Carolina and Georgia . They were planted and are flourishing ; and , though not yet multiplied , they will be the germ of that cultivation in those States . ¶ In 1790 , I got a cask ...
... kind , sent from Marseilles to Charleston , for South Carolina and Georgia . They were planted and are flourishing ; and , though not yet multiplied , they will be the germ of that cultivation in those States . ¶ In 1790 , I got a cask ...
Page 81
... kind , from every department of government , Executive , Legislative , and Judiciary , and from every minion of theirs holding office or seeking it , that I entirely disregard it . It has been so impossible to contradict all their lies ...
... kind , from every department of government , Executive , Legislative , and Judiciary , and from every minion of theirs holding office or seeking it , that I entirely disregard it . It has been so impossible to contradict all their lies ...
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Page 112 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 83 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 171 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Page 168 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 168 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 127 - I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time.
Page 124 - I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud...
Page 83 - Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Page 131 - 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 112 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes.