The Ashes of Achievement

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Brentano's, 1922 - Počet stran: 336

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Strana 281 - If you can dream and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same...
Strana 281 - Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings— nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds...
Strana 120 - It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world, Which you can read and care for just so long, But presently you feel that you will die Unless you get the page you're readin' done, An' turn another — likely not so good ; But what you're after is to turn 'em all.
Strana 108 - The Pope may launch his Interdict, The Union its decree, But the bubble is blown and the bubble is pricked By Us and such as We. Remember the battle and stand aside While Thrones and Powers confess That King over all the children of pride Is the Press — the Press — the Press!
Strana 10 - How far is St. Helena from a little child at play? What makes you want to wander there with all the world between? Oh, Mother, call your son again or else he'll run away. (No one thinks of winter when the grass is green !) How far is St. Helena from a fight in Paris street?
Strana 60 - And we all praise famous men — Ancients of the College; For they taught us common sense — Tried to teach us common sense — Truth and God's Own Common Sense, Which is more than knowledge!
Strana 39 - Western wind and open surge Took us from our mothers, Flung us on a naked shore (Twelve bleak houses by the shore! Seven summers by the shore!) 'Mid two hundred brothers. There we met with famous men Set in office o'er us; And they beat on us with rods — Faithfully with many rods — Daily beat us on with rods, For the love they bore us!
Strana 82 - Sydney Greeting! My birth-stain have I turned to good; Forcing strong wills perverse to steadfastness: The first flush of the tropics in my blood, And at my feet Success!
Strana 133 - The Queen was in her chamber, and she was middling old, Her petticoat was satin, and her stomacher was gold. Backwards and forwards and sideways did she pass, Making up her mind to face the cruel looking-glass. The cruel looking-glass that will never show a lass As comely or as kindly or as young as what she was!
Strana 309 - Helena from the field of Waterloo? A near way - a clear way - the ship will take you soon. A pleasant place for gentlemen with little left to do. (Morning never tries you till the afternoon!) How far from St Helena to the Gate of Heaven's Grace?

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