The Pleasures of Life ...Macmillan and Company, 1890 - Conduct of life |
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... God's good mercy gild The darkness of their night . " In palaces are hearts that ask , In discontent and pride , Why life is such a dreary task , And all good things denied . And hearts in poorest huts admire How love has in their aid ...
... God's good mercy gild The darkness of their night . " In palaces are hearts that ask , In discontent and pride , Why life is such a dreary task , And all good things denied . And hearts in poorest huts admire How love has in their aid ...
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... God made all men to be happy . " - EPICTETUS . LIFE is a great gift , and as we reach years of discretion , we most of us natur- ally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence . Even those who do not accept " the ...
... God made all men to be happy . " - EPICTETUS . LIFE is a great gift , and as we reach years of discretion , we most of us natur- ally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence . Even those who do not accept " the ...
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... God to us , refer but seldom to those things in which it is most abundantly and immediately shown ; though they insist much on His giving of bread , and raiment , and health ( which He gives to all inferior creatures ) they require us ...
... God to us , refer but seldom to those things in which it is most abundantly and immediately shown ; though they insist much on His giving of bread , and raiment , and health ( which He gives to all inferior creatures ) they require us ...
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... gods , " says Marcus Aurelius , " have put all the means in man's power to enable him not to fall into real evils ... God 8 CHAP . THE PLEASURES OF LIFE.
... gods , " says Marcus Aurelius , " have put all the means in man's power to enable him not to fall into real evils ... God 8 CHAP . THE PLEASURES OF LIFE.
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Sir John Lubbock. " " happiness is his own fault ; for God has made all men to be happy . " “ I am , ” he elsewhere says , " always content with that which happens ; for I think that what God chooses is better than what I choose . ' And ...
Sir John Lubbock. " " happiness is his own fault ; for God has made all men to be happy . " “ I am , ” he elsewhere says , " always content with that which happens ; for I think that what God chooses is better than what I choose . ' And ...
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Page 102 - 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.
Page 70 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 69 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 43 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 185 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 110 - 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.
Page 153 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 182 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 133 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 155 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...