 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 290 pages
...not to extinguish nature, but to repress it ; not to stand unmoved at distress, but endeavour to tum every disaster to our own advantage. Our greatest...reverend disciple of Tao, more than a match for all that caq happen ; the clieif business of my life has been to procure wisdom ; and the chief object of that... | |
 | 1804 - 286 pages
...anguish ; our attempts should be, not to extinguish nature, but to repress it ; not to stand unmoved at a distress, but endeavour to turn every disaster to...fancy myself at present, O thou reverend disciple of Tuo, more than a match for all that can happen ; the chiet business of my life has been to procure... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 500 pages
...be little more than a rhapsody of sentences borrowed from Confucius, the Chinese philosopher. tempts should not be to extinguish nature, but to repress...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 my... | |
 | 1831 - 984 pages
...than patience. — A4. What! be a man, and yet want patience ! — Arabian Apophthegm. PERSEVERANCE. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — ConJ'ucius. Resolution beats the march and sounds the charge to all great actions ; wisdom is her... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 578 pages
...honest sincerity, in the love of justice, in the knowledge of mankind, and in humility,' &c. BOSWELL, be to extinguish nature, but to repress it; not to...fancy myself at present, O thou reverend disciple of Taou, (1 )more than a match for all that can happen. The chief business of my life has been to procure... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...should hold the immutable mean which lies between insensibility and anguish ; our attempts should be not to extinguish nature, but to repress it ; not to stand...never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Nor is the disquisition upon Ridicule less admirable in the conception, or less vigorous in the delineation.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...but endeavour to turn every disaster to our wn advantage. Our greatest glory is, not in never ailing, d upon my quill while I was writing! The whole learned world, I made no doub disple of Tao, more than a match for all that can lappen. The chief business of my life has been o... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 pages
...endeavour to turn every disaster to our own advantage. Our greatest glory is, not in never fulling, but in rising every time we fall. I fancy myself at present, O thou reverend disciple of Tan, more than a match for all that can happen. The chief business of my life has been to procure wisdom,... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1839 - 330 pages
...of daughters, not to withdraw his protection and advice from her in such an emergency. CHAPTER VIII. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. MAXIM OF CONFUCIUS. " IN the first place, then, my dear young lady, since you consider my advice worth... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1839 - 896 pages
...of daughters, not to withdraw his protection and advice from her in such an emergency. CHAPTER VIII. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. MAXIM OF CONFUCIUS. " IN the first place, then, my dear young lady, since you consider my advice worth... | |
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Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 
