The Pleasures of LifeD. Appleton, 1887 - 191 páginas |
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... follows : " If it had been possible to make your body and your property free from liability to injury , I would have done so . As this could not be , I have given you a small portion of my- self . " This divine gift it is for us to use ...
... follows : " If it had been possible to make your body and your property free from liability to injury , I would have done so . As this could not be , I have given you a small portion of my- self . " This divine gift it is for us to use ...
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... tasks all their powers pouring , These attain the mighty life you see . " It is true that " A man is his own star ; Our acts our angels are For good or ill . " 1 and that " rather than follow a multitude to 11 37 THE HAPPINESS OF DUTY.
... tasks all their powers pouring , These attain the mighty life you see . " It is true that " A man is his own star ; Our acts our angels are For good or ill . " 1 and that " rather than follow a multitude to 11 37 THE HAPPINESS OF DUTY.
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Sir John Lubbock. 1 and that " rather than follow a multitude to do evil , " one should " stand like Pom- pey's pillar , conspicuous by oneself , and single in integrity . " Though to many , no doubt , this isolation would be itself most ...
Sir John Lubbock. 1 and that " rather than follow a multitude to do evil , " one should " stand like Pom- pey's pillar , conspicuous by oneself , and single in integrity . " Though to many , no doubt , this isolation would be itself most ...
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... follow I am ready . If I choose not , I make myself a wretch ; and still must follow . " If we are ever in doubt what to do , it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done . Moreover , the result ...
... follow I am ready . If I choose not , I make myself a wretch ; and still must follow . " If we are ever in doubt what to do , it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done . Moreover , the result ...
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... follow the example of the worthy Abbé . not be possible for But although it may us to visit the Rocky Mountains , there are other countries nearer home which most of us might find time to visit . Though it is true that no descriptions ...
... follow the example of the worthy Abbé . not be possible for But although it may us to visit the Rocky Mountains , there are other countries nearer home which most of us might find time to visit . Though it is true that no descriptions ...
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Página 103 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Página 140 - A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Página 102 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Página 41 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 113 - ... wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it ; as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation : let diaries, therefore, be brought in use. The things to be seen and observed are, the courts of princes, especially when they give audience to ambassadors...
Página 142 - Sweet is the smile of home ; the mutual look When hearts are of each other sure ; Sweet all the joys that crowd the household nook, The haunt of all affections pure...
Página 92 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 179 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 92 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship for the most part which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...