 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
 | Robert E. Valett - 2002 - 139 pages
...create a joyful community and more fully realize personal happiness ! Happy the man, and happy he alone, who can call today his own. He who, secure within,...say: tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. -John Dryden +++HAPPINESS+++ He builded his happiness out of these: Birds and blossoms and friendly... | |
 | Scott Jeffrey - Self-Help - 2002 - 234 pages
...Coelho len Cjuestions tor (Creating a Olorious L/ay Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can today his own: He who, secure within, can say: "To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. " —Horace What if there were ten questions that could help you create the greatest... | |
 | Horace - History - 2002 - 332 pages
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 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...Elphinston, on whom he usually draws in the Rambler when quoting Horace in English, but from Dryden: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd in spite of fate are mine. Not heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, But what has been has... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...from their old foundations torn, And woods made thin with winds, their scattered honours mourn. VIII Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call...The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. 70 Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.'... | |
 | Conduct of life - 2003 - 136 pages
...plausibly temptation may be presented to you. -Susannah Wesley (Mother of reformist John Wesley) 223) Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call...say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. -John Dryden 224) The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves,... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 276 pages
...ebbs as I speak — so seize each day, and grant the next no credit Happy the man, and happy he alone, who can call today his own; he who secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do your worst, for I have lived today.'" Horace's Epistles (c. 20 BC), which included influential literary... | |
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