 Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself...  The Odes of Horace: In Four Books Translated Into English Lyric Verse - Page 378by Horace - 1858 - 475 pagesFull view - About this book
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...fill the time available for its completion. CN Parkinson (Parkinson's Law) Sir William Osier Happy a man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his...say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dry den I'm glad the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. Thomas A. Edison... | |
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...accurs'd Past and to come seems best, things present, worst. - Shakespeare, (King Henry IV, Part 2) Happy the Man, and happy he alone, He who can call...within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. - Dryden. (Translation of Horace) Ah, fill the cup: — what boots it to repeat How Time... | |
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