Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846–1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer.
Born in Cold Spring, New York, to a wealthy Scottish-English family, Mabie attended Williams College and Columbia Law School. From 1879 until his death, he worked at the weekly magazine, Christian Union; it was renamed The Outlook in 1893. In 1890, a small collection of Mabie’s essays, which reflected upon life, literature, and nature, were published as a volume entitled My Study Fire (1890 and 1894.)
Mabie’s other notable books include Works and Days (1902,) Parables of Life (1902,) Short Studies in Literature (1891,) Under the Trees and Elsewhere (1891,) Essays in Literary Interpretation (1892,) and Introduction to Notable Poems (1909.) He also compiled Famous Stories Every Child Should Know (1903,) Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know (1905,) and Myths That Every Child Should Know (1905.)
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie
Topics: Christmas
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie
Topics: Leisure
Nothing is lost upon a person who is bent upon growth; nothing is wasted on one who is always preparing for his work and life by keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience. Such a man finds ministries to his education on all sides; everything cooperates with his passion for growth.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie
Topics: Growth
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie
Topics: Freedom
Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against—not with—the wind.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie
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