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 to be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation... The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 233by John Kelman - 1903 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
| Gouverneur Morris - 1909 - 120 pages
..."I don't know success when I see it. But you mean that he isn't rich. Stevenson said, and he knew, 'To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less,' and to make a family on the whole happier for his presence in it — or words to that effect — was... | |
| Charles Richmond Henderson - Child welfare - 1910 - 490 pages
...upon the whole a family happier by his presence; to renounce where that shall be necessary, and not to be embittered; to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same grim conditions, to keep friends with himself, — here's a task for all that a man has of fortitude and... | |
| Cynthia Stockley - Girls - 1910 - 480 pages
...Indeed, she was at this time striving with a valorous heart to live according to Stevenson's creed: "To be honest: to be kind: To earn a little — and to spend a little less. " One day when she had got home early from rehearsal, and was spending some rapturous moments over... | |
| Charles Richmond Henderson - Child welfare - 1910 - 510 pages
...Creed" may touch a chord untouched before as the prisoner reads in the corner of his prison paper: "To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend less; to make upon the whole a family happier by his presence; to renounce where that shall be necessary,... | |
| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1911 - 488 pages
...the whole a family happier by his presence ; to renounce where that shall be necessary, aud not to be embittered ; to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation ; above all, on the same grim conditions to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and... | |
| Sherwood Sweet Knight - Ethics - 1912 - 184 pages
...left us an ethical ideal for human conduct that is well worthy of our very best endeavor to fulfill ; "to be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to...presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation, above all upon the same grim... | |
| Augusta Choate, Gertrude Hartman - English language - 1912 - 174 pages
...husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue. 44. To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little and to spend less, to make, upon the whole, a family happier for...necessary, and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but those without capitulation—- above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself—here... | |
| James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - Readers - 1912 - 380 pages
...Essays — Self Reliance. WORDSWORTH: Ode to Duty. SA PYE: Courage. GAYLEY: Classic Myths. A MAN'S TASK To be honest, to be kind; to earn a little, and to spend less; to make upon the whole a family happier by his presence; to renounce where that shall be necessary,... | |
| Education - 1913 - 706 pages
...justly, assists readily, takes all patiently and continues a friend unchangeably. — William Perm. To be honest; to be kind; to earn a little and to...friends but these without capitulation; above all on these same given conditions to keep friends with himself. Here is a task for all that a man has of... | |
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