 THE wisest man could ask no more of Fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the Many, honored by the Few; To count as naught in World, OP Church, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great...  Educational Review - Página 1521912Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Ralph Waldo Trine - 1908 - 88 páginas
...than kindness and humility. Truly descriptive of the well-balanced man are these lines of Lowell : " The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be...manly, true. Safe from the many, honored by the few ; Nothing to crave in Church or World or State, But inwardly in secret to be great." The one who has... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1908 - 524 páginas
...lovingly. The fact is, friends, the wisest of us can ask no more of fate — "Than to be simple, honest, manly, true; Safe from the many, honored by the few; To count as naught in court, or church, or state, But inwardly in secret to be great. To touch It not to grasp vast nature's... | |
 | 1908 - 452 páginas
...lovingly. The fact is, friends, the wisest of us can ask no more of fate, Than to be simple, honest, manly, true; Safe from the many, honored by the few; To count as naught in court, or church, or state, But inwardly in secret to be great. To touch if not to grasp vast nature... | |
 | Walter Lorenzo Sheldon - 1908 - 280 páginas
...own merits, modest men are dumb." "When modesty has once perished, it will never revive."— Seneca. "The wisest man could ask no more of Fate, Than to be modest, manly and true, Safe from the many, honored by the few." — Lowell. "A man may1 have a just... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1910 - 520 páginas
...from, whom it is a sorrow to lose, and whom it will always be a precious inheritance to remember." "The wisest man could ask no more of Fate Than to...manly, true, Safe from the Many, honored by the Few; Nothing to count in World or Church, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great; To feel mysterious... | |
 | Morrill Wyman - 1913 - 168 páginas
...infinitely more gifted a man. It is thirty years since Jeffries Wyman died — he of whom Lowell wrote : "The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to...church or state, But inwardly, in secret, to be great." Through all these years this memory of a brother had been a part of our friend's very religion; and... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1913 - 1092 páginas
...the words which our own poet used in describing another of our greatest and best loved associates, The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be...manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the Few; To feel mysterious Nature ever new; To touch, if not to grasp, her endless clue, And learn by each discovery... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 páginas
...plucked them from their bed, FitzGerald strung them on an English thread. In a Copy of Omar Khayyam . The wisest man could ask no more of Fate Than to be...Church or State; But inwardly in secret to be great. Sonnet. Jeffries W'jman, The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow Not whiter than the thoughts... | |
 | Sir Richard Gregory - 1916 - 382 páginas
...following lines were spoken on the occasion of the inauguration of a memorial lectureship in his honour : The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be...simple, modest, manly, true, * Safe from the many, honoured by the few ; Nothing to count in world, or church, or State, But inwardly in secret to be... | |
 | Grace Williamson Edes - 1917 - 136 páginas
...strength been made from simple sturdy yeomen such as these, of whom we might quote Lowell's lines : " The wisest man could ask no more of Fate Than to be...manly, true Safe from the Many, honored by the Few, Nothing to court in World or Church or State, But inwardly in secret, to be great." The dates in the... | |
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