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Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have read more
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most
unhappy kind of misfortune.
[Lat., In read more
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most
unhappy kind of misfortune.
[Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est
infortunii fuisse felicem.]
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
O, sorrow!
Why dost borrow
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
O, sorrow!
Why dost borrow
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
[Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.]
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
[Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.]
Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.
Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.
