 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...uppermost? We should hold the immutable mean that lies between insensibility and anguish ; our attempts should not be to extinguish' nature, but to repress...rising every time we fall. I fancy myself at present, О thou reverend disciple of Tao, more than a match for all that canhappen. The chief business of my... | |
 | James Everett - Clergy - 1842 - 592 pages
...sentiment of Confucius, aided by a little Christian light, is worthy WILLIAM DAWSON. 71 of observation:—" Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." At no period of life, however, would William Dawson's native buoyancy of spirit have allowed him to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...uppermost? We should hold the immutable mean that lies between insensibility and anguish ; our attempts ay ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding...echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in dbciple of Tao, more than a match for all that can happen. The chief business of my life has been to... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another who has enough of his own. OUR greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. MOST of the miseries of life result from our straying from the path which leads to content. UGLINESS... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 556 pages
...should hold the immutable mean that lies between insensibility and anguish ; our attempts should be not to extinguish nature, but to repress it ; not to stand...rising every time we fall. I fancy myself at present, 0 thou reverend disciple of Taou,1 more than a match for all that can happen. The chief business of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 pages
...should hold the immutable mean that lies between insensibility and anguish ; our attempts should be not to extinguish nature, but to repress it ; not to stand...rising every time we fall. I fancy myself at present, 0 thou reverend disciple of Taou,1 more than a match for all that can happen. The chief business 1... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 576 pages
...should not be to extinguish nature, but to repress it ; not to stand unmoved at distress, but endeavor to turn every disaster to our own advantage. Our greatest...rising every time we fall. I fancy myself at present, 0 thou reverend disciple of Taou,* more than a match for all that can happen. The chief business of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 588 pages
...; not to stand unmoved at distress, but endeavour to turn every disaster to our own advantage. Uur greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. I fancy myself at present, 0 thou reverend disciple of Tao, more than a match for all that can happen ; the chief business of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 580 pages
...should not be to extinguish nature, but to repress it; not to stand unmoved at distress, but endeavor to turn every disaster to our own advantage. Our greatest...rising every time we fall. I fancy myself at present, 0 thou reverend disciple of .Taon,* more than a match for all that can happen. The chief business of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...should hold the immutable mean that lies between insensibility and anguish ; our attempts should be, not to extinguish nature, but to repress it ; not to stand...rising every time we fall. I fancy myself at present, oh thou reverend disciple of Tao, more than a match for all that can happen ; the chief business of... | |
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Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 
