The Philistine, Том 5

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Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard
The Society, 1897
 

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Сторінка 57 - A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair...
Сторінка 93 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Сторінка 58 - Belong to the woman who didn't know why (And now we know that she never knew why) And did not understand ! The fool was stripped to his foolish hide (Even as you and I !) Which she might have seen when she threw him aside (But it isn't on record the lady tried) So some of him lived but the most of him died — (Even as you and I!) "And...
Сторінка 109 - Not as ours the books of old — Things that steam can stamp and fold ; Not as ours the books of yore — Rows of type, and nothing more. Then a book was still a Book, Where a wistful man might look, Finding something through the whole, Beating. — like a human soul In that growth of day by day, When to...
Сторінка 58 - Belong to the woman who didn't know why, (And now we know that she never knew why) And did not understand. The fool was stripped to his foolish hide (Even as you and I!) Which she might have seen when she threw him aside — (But it isn't on record the lady tried), So some of him lived, but the most of him died — (Even as you and I...
Сторінка 64 - Not a bargain book, bought from a haberdasher, but a beautiful book, a book to caress — peculiar, distinctive, individual: a book that hath first caught your eye and then pleased your fancy, written by an author with a tender whim, all right out of his heart. We will read it together in the gloaming, and when the gathering dusk doth blur the page, we'll sit with hearts too full for speech and think it over.
Сторінка 126 - ... their minds with some measure of independence. A very brief contact with people, who, when the occasion comes, do not shrink from saying what they think, is enough to modify that excessive liability to be shocked at truth-speaking, which is only so common because truth-speaking itself is so unfamiliar.
Сторінка 111 - ... man that dieth not, and a symbol of the sorrow of man that endureth for ever. And in the whole world there was no other bronze save the bronze of this image. And he took the image he had fashioned, and set it in a great furnace, and gave it to the fire. And out of the bronze of the image of The Sorrow that endureth for Ever he fashioned an image of The Pleasure that abideth for a Moment.
Сторінка 127 - Bible and so forth, then it seems that the younger person is warranted in refraining from saying that he or she does not accept such and such doctrines. This, of course, only where the son or daughter feels a tender and genuine attachment to the parent. Where the parent has not earned this attachment, has been selfish, indifferent, or cruel, the title to the special kind of forbearance of which we are speaking can hardly exist. In an ordinary way, however, a parent has a claim on us which no other...
Сторінка 110 - One evening there came into his soul the desire to fashion an image of The Pleasure that abideth for a Moment. And he went forth into the world to look for bronze. For he could only think in bronze. But all the bronze of the whole world had disappeared, nor anywhere in the whole world was there any bronze to be found, save only the bronze of the image of The Sorrow that endureth for Ever.

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