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. The Pleasures of Life - Página 102por Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 191 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1907 - 628 páginas
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| 1915 - 512 páginas
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| 1895 - 722 páginas
...experience itself is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ?" Mr Pater, in five short volumes of exquisite prose, has given us some results of his attempt to... | |
| Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 páginas
...experience itself is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is... | |
| 1873 - 790 páginas
...puhes only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be feon in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most...focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite m their purest energy ? "To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 páginas
...the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may \vc see in them all that is to be seen in them by the...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world; meantime it is only... | |
| 1902 - 550 páginas
...life, the great aim should be to pass more swiftly from point to point, and if possible contrive to be present always at the focus where the greatest...always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life ' (pp. 64-5). It is not, however, with this lower Humanism that we are... | |
| 1876 - 606 páginas
...abstract moralising which Wordsworth prescribes as its proper food ? Mr. Pater shall once more decide. ' To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy ' (viz. of artistic perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative... | |
| 1876 - 576 páginas
...abstract moralising which Wordsworth prescribes as its proper food ? Mr. Pater shall once more decide. ' To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy ' (viz. of artistic perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative... | |
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