Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. I fancy myself at present, O thou reverend disciple of Tao, more than a match for all that can happen ; the chief business of my life has been to procure wisdom, and the chief... The Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Página 105por Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 1 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1885 - 254 páginas
...year, but remains a wolf still. 2. It is better to refuse to quarrel than to make it up aft erward. 3. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 4. Every man stamps his value on himself, and is made great or little by his own will. LESSON LXXXII.... | |
| 1885 - 254 páginas
...but remains it wolf still. 2. It is better to refuse to quarrel than to make it up* aft erward. 3. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 4. Every man stamps his value on himself, and is made great or little by his own will. -eon tent' de... | |
| James Stanley Little - 1887 - 510 páginas
...of the colonial character. Colonists rebound at every throw. Confucius is credited with the mot that our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. So think our African cousins. If, after several efforts, they fail in one line of business, they have... | |
| 1888 - 102 páginas
...same spirit that prompted its compilation, I remain your sincere friend; and also in the belief that " Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." CONTENTS. PAGE. The Reading Habit- 5 What Books to Read, with Remarks 6 Poetry 12 Thoughts for a Young... | |
| Amelia E. Barr - 1889 - 386 páginas
...lives." " Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, Not by the wine drunk, but the wine poured forth." " Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." THERE is a law of gravitation in the moral as well as the natural world. When a young man has begun... | |
| 1890 - 828 páginas
...books. — Auerbach. You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. — Joubert. Ouii greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius. GIVE what you have. To some one it may better than you dare to think. — Longfellow.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1891 - 332 páginas
...by any. The wheel of fortune tarns incessantly round, and who can say within himself I shall to day be uppermost. We should hold the immutable mean that...rising every time we fall. I fancy myself at present, O thou reverend disciple of Tao, more than a match for all that can happen ; the chief business of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1891 - 320 páginas
...by any. The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself I shall to day be uppermost. We should hold the immutable mean that...in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. \ fancy myself at present, O thou reverend disciple of Tao, more than a match for all that can happen... | |
| William Henry Maxwell - 1891 - 348 páginas
...not rest. 4. No noble human thought, however buried in the dust of ages, can ever come to naught. 5. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 6. The lightest wave of influence, set in motion, extends and widens to the eternal shore. 7. The heights... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1893 - 780 páginas
...should hold the immutable mean that lies lietween insensibility and anguish ; our attempts should not be to extinguish nature, but to repress it; not to stand...never falling, but in rising every time we fall. I fancymyself at present, Othou reverend disciple of Tao, more than a match for all that can happen.... | |
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