 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
 | Dale Carnegie - Psychology - 2004 - 322 pages
...a time — and that 'Every day is a new life to a wise man.' " Who do you suppose wrote this verse: He who, secure within, can say: "To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. " Those words sound modern, don't they? Yet they were written thirty years before Christ... | |
 | Reginald V. Johnson - 2005 - 92 pages
...of them would give every dollar he/she left here to trade places with you! John Dryden said it best: "Happy the man and happy he alone, he who can call...say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today." "True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise, it arises, in the first place,... | |
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