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Excerpt from With Earth and SkyRed clover and prairie roses, civilization and primitive nature, shining and glowing together at the behest of the June wind blowing fair. I could not believe it, yet saw it. My cocksure ness about things I know, blew from me as the winds from the scented field blew on me. What I don't know seems to insist on being more aggressive and masterful than what I do know. Here was the thing that never happened, which is...

Excerpt from The Dynamite of GodAnd he found not even a speech ready to con vey his meaning, so bankrupt was our world in the appliances of noble thought and life. The Greek speech had risen and matured. It was the most exact, versatile, vigorous, and poetic tongue any race had ever used as a vehicle of ideas.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis bo...

Excerpt from Beside Lake BeautifulSummers, and if I set a - talking and grow garrulous, set it down not to age, but to love, for love and age are alike garrulous. Good things bear talk ing of, and that right often. Did not Leonardo so frequently paint a smile upon the lips of those he loved to celebrate, as that this shadow of laughter has passed into the sayings of the world as the smile of Leonardo? Life's mercies will bear frequent celebrat...

Excerpt from The Uncommon Commonplace When shall we learn, past ever forgetting it, that the commonplace is uncommon? The common things must always be the chief delight of all such as have lived deeply. The shallows where ships cannot sail and wild waves cannot come ashore may have scant care for commonplaces, and call loudly for the unusual, but the deep places of the soul and deep souls are ever expectant for the invasion of the ordinary. T...

Excerpt from The Poet's Poet, and Other Essays To claim a new message to literary folk would be presumptuous. And the authors self-justification for this volume is that of a lover. A lover's passion makes him voluble. The words herein set down are expressions of loves historical and literary. And if these studies shall stimulate affection for the men and works he loves, the author will rest content. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publi...

Excerpt from A Hero and Some Other Folk The hero is not a luxury, but a necessity. We can no more do without him than we can do without the sky. Every best man and woman is at heart a hero-worshiper. Emerson acutely remarks that all men admire Napoleon because he was themselves in possibility. They were in miniature what he was developed. For a like though nobler reason, all men love heroes. They are ourselves grown tall, puissant, victorious...

Excerpt from The Prairie and the Sea I find myself touching this word Prairie. IS it in its ownright fascinative, or in the right of that far reach of emerald which suffers itself to wear the name? I remain agnostic here. In any case, the name is my delight. My lips refuse to hurry when they touch this word, but fondle it, lover-wise, lingering as loath to say good-bye, pronounc ing it Prai - rie, holding on the initial syllable as if some mu...

Excerpt from The Climb to God: Being a Collection of Pulpit and Private Prayers Which Are Meant to Gird the Spiritual Life These prayers were most of them taken by a stenographer: some of them were written for special need or the outflow of the preacher's own heart to God. They have had help in them to men and women who have asked for their preservation on the page of a printed book. Possibly the largest way to develop devotion is by the le...

Excerpt from The Pastor-Preacher But the suggestion of our Book Editor, Dr. Cooke, supplemented by many ministers of many denomina tions, has stimulated my courage to the point Of set ting down some things which as a pastor I have put to the test Of practicability. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important hi...

Excerpt from The Blessed Life: Being a Series of Meditations on Manhood and Womanhood in Christ In writing these chapters on "The Blessed Life, " my object has been to help Christians, specially young Christians, to lift up their eyes and behold both the terrestrial and celestial aspects of a holy life, and to enforce the solidarity of Christian experience, so as to make the heart beat high in sane exultancy at what we are and are to be, "who...

Excerpt from Recovered Yesterdays in Literature In Shakespeare was an abundant love of life. The vital streams had not run dry in the channels of his spirit, rather were in spring freshet, overflowing the banks and inundating meadow lands and fields. When Shakespeare touches us we feel a vital shock, as if an electrode of the lightning had, in passing, grasped our wrists. He is no dyspeptic, with hung head and dolorous voice and mendacious re...

Excerpt from A Hero: Jean Valjean The hero is not a luxury, but a necessity. We can no more do without him than we can do without the sky. Every best man and woman is at heart a hero-worshiper. Emerson acutely remarks that all men admire Napoleon because he was themselves in possibility. They were in miniature what he was developed. For a like though nobler reason, all men love heroes. They are ourselves grown tall, puissant, victorious, and ...

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