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Various. Modern Essays
Modern Essays
Table of Contents
AMERICAN LITERATURE. By John Macy
MARY WHITE. By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
NIAGARA FALLS. By Rupert Brooke
THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE. By Don Marquis
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"THE MAN-O'-WAR'S 'ER 'USBAND" By David W. Bone
THE MARKET. By William Mcfee
HOLY IRELAND. By Joyce Kilmer
A FAMILIAR PREFACE. By Joseph Conrad
ON DRAWING. By A. P. Herbert
O. HENRY. By O. W. Firkins
THE MOWING OF A FIELD. By Hilaire Belloc
THE STUDENT LIFE. By WILLIAM OSLER
THE DECLINE OF THE DRAMA. By Stephen Leacock
AMERICA AND THE ENGLISH TRADITION. By Harry Morgan Ayres
THE RUSSIAN QUARTER. By Thomas Burke
A WORD FOR AUTUMN. By A. A. Milne
"A CLERGYMAN" By Max Beerbohm
SAMUEL BUTLER: DIOGENES OF THE VICTORIANS. By Stuart P. Sherman
BED-BOOKS AND NIGHT-LIGHTS. By H. M. Tomlinson
THE PRECEPT OF PEACE. By Louise Imogen Guiney
ON LYING AWAKE AT NIGHT. By Stewart Edward White
A WOODLAND VALENTINE. By Marian Storm
THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY. By George Santayana
NOCTURNE. By Simeon Strunsky
BEER AND CIDER. By George Saintsbury
A FREE MAN'S WORSHIP. By Bertrand Russell
SOME HISTORIANS. By Philip Guedalla
WINTER MIST. By Robert Palfrey Utter
TRIVIA. By Logan Pearsall Smith
BEYOND LIFE. By James Branch Cabell
THE FISH REPORTER. By Robert Cortes Holliday
SOME NONSENSE ABOUT A DOG. By Harry Esty Dounce
THE FIFTY-FIRST DRAGON. By Heywood Broun
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Published by Good Press, 2019
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The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.
Do the best you can, without straining yourself too much and too continuously, and leave the rest to God. If you strain yourself too much you'll have to ask God to patch you up. And for all you know, patching you up may take time that it was planned to use some other way.
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