 It's no in titles nor in rank ; It's no in wealth like Lon'on bank, To purchase peace and rest ; It's no in making muckle, mair : It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may...  The works of Horace: with English notes - Side 369af Horace, John Larkin Lincoln - 1884 - 575 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Allan Neilson - 1917 - 362 sider
...It's no in books, it's no in lear, learning To make us truly blest: If happiness hae not her seat An' centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest I Nae treasures nor pleasures Could make us happy lang; The heart's aye's the part aye That makes us... | |
 | Marion Morris - 1917 - 186 sider
...gold, greater than the world a noble character. — Selected. If happiness has not its seat And center in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blessed. — Selected. It's the little things you can do quietly to make others happy that bring in... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 sider
...all, and that unless the mind has schooled itself to peace by the renunciation of covetous desires, ' We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest.' " This sounds exaggerated, but Horace was both a poet and a philosopher. De PnmdentiA, cap. ii.), which... | |
 | 1919 - 536 sider
...world'a richei." or with the way that Burns sings of it : — " If happiness hae not her seat And center in the breast. We may be wise or rich or great, But never can be blest ; Xae treasures nor pleasures Could make us happy lang ; The heart ay 's the part ay, That makes us... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 456 sider
...The noblest mind the best contentment has. EDMUND SPENSER If Happiness has not her seat And center in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest. 200 THE RUNAWAY CANNON VICTOR HUGO This selection is taken from a book called "Ninety-Three," by Victor... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1920 - 272 sider
...mair; It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest: If happiness hae not her seat An' centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or...treasures nor pleasures Could make us happy lang; The heart ay's the part ay That makes us right or wrang. Think ye, that sic as you and I, Wha drudge an'... | |
 | Frederick Henry Lynch - 1920 - 204 sider
...wealth. He has to imagine one side. I have lived both, and have learned that "If happiness has not its seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blessed." Beyond a competence for old age, and that need not be great, and may be very small, wealth... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1920 - 270 sider
...'Tis not in wealth like London bank, To make us truly blest. If happiness have not her seat And center in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest." 4. But you can not receive affection unless you will also give it. You can not find others to love... | |
 | George McLean Harper - 1922 - 212 sider
...and rest; It's no in making muckle mair, It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest: If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast,...treasures, nor pleasures Could make us happy lang ; The heart aye's the part aye That makes us right or wrang." On the harshness of church discipline and the... | |
 | Grace Hastings Sharp, Mabel Hill - 1922 - 232 sider
...necessary to make up a worth-while life. "If happiness has not her seat And center in the breast, You may be wise or rich or great, But never can be blest." This old-fashioned verse I suppose means that happiness is a state of mind independent of things and... | |
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