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Página 388 - Happy the man — and happy he alone, — He who can call to-day his own, He who, secure within, can say ' To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day : Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine, Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour...
Página 179 - But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
Página 163 - Let us take five or six of the men who are best known to the world. Now they shall not be saints or martyrs ; or men especially renowned for goodness of any kind. I will choose them only from the fact that they happen to be well known to us — not their lives particularly, but themselves. . . . The men I will choose are Horace, Dante, Montaigne, Pepys, Dr. Johnson, and Rousseau. Ellesmere. A queer collection. How they would have quarrelled ! Milverton. I don't know about that. All I contend for...
Página 273 - that the deaths which occur in this country are fully a third more numerous than they would be if our existing knowledge of the chief causes of disease were reasonably well applied...
Página 163 - I give Milverton great credit for choosing him. He does not pretend to be a mass of virtue, but, after all, how much good and worth there is in the fellow. I look upon that Diary of his as the truest book ever written.
Página 191 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned ; and know that pride; Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Página 139 - Godolphin, when only a page at court, he said, that ' he was never " in " the way, and never " out " of the way ' ; and this was a character, says Lord Dartmouth, which Godolphin maintained to his life's end.
Página 36 - I have often spoken to you upon matters kindred to, or, at any rate, not distantly connected with, my subject for this Easter.
Página 183 - ... such flattery is constantly lavished. Greville was actually engaged in collecting charges against the Conyngham family, in the least defensible manner, about the very time when he was encouraging the blind confidence of Lord Mount Charles. Henri Heine (in reference to the familiar axiom) said that a hero is not a hero...
Página 117 - I remember, when I was young," says Sir Arthur Helps, " writing some paper — about sanitary matters I think it was — and showing it to an older and much wiser friend. I dare say it was full of the exuberant faults of youthfulness. He said to me, ' My dear fellow, I foresee that this is not the only thing you will write. Let me give you a bit of advice. Whenever you write a sentence that particularly pleases you, cut it out.