The Philistine, Volume 5Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard The Society, 1897 |
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Página 71 - 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...
Página 32 - The annual dues shall be one dollar. This shall entitle the member to all the documents issued by the Society, together with one copy of the incomparable PHILISTINE Magazine, monthly, for one year. ARTICLE xix. SEC. 4. The duties of each member shall consist in living up to his highest Ideal (as near as possible) and in attending the Annual Dinner (if convenient).
Página 70 - ... 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.
Página 23 - ... ^The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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Página 53 - But the fool he called her his lady fair (Even as you and I!) Oh the years we waste and the tears we waste. And the work of our head and hand, Belong to the woman who did not know (And now we know that she never could know) And did not understand. A fool there was and his goods he spent (Even as you and I...
Página 72 - Yet let us ever remember that those elders are of nobler type who have kept their minds in a generous freedom, and have made themselves strong with that magnanimous confidence in truth which the Hebrew expressed in old phrase, that if counsel or work be of men it will come to naught, but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it.
Página 53 - 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 it isn't the shame and it isn't the blame That stings like a white hot brand — It's coming to know that she never knew why (Seeing, at last, she could never know...
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