The Art of Living Long and HappilyG.P. Putnam's sons, 1895 - 106 páginas |
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abstemious acquired agreeable amazing age art of happiness ART OF LIVING attained attention avoid become beverage blessings body cheerful conscience constitution Cornaro death delightful desire died diet disease dition drank duty Earl of Arundell endeavor enjoyment envy Epictetus exer exercise faculties fear fortune friends GOETHE grief habits heart Henry Jenkins honor human influence instance of longevity intemperance Ireland labor learned lived one hundred LIVING LONG Lord Bacon Marcus Aurelius milk moral nature negative happiness ness never observations old age pains passions perfect persons philosophy physician Plato pleasures possessed preserve prolonged pursuit of happiness Pythagoras reason regimen regular course relish render rich says science of happiness Shakespeare Shoreditch Shropshire sick sleep sorrow soul suffering taught temperance things Thomas Parr thou tion tranquillity of mind virtues walk whey wisdom wise wish worthy writer youth
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Página 24 - I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T...
Página 27 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding: for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Página 20 - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. " 3. ORDER. — Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time.
Página 25 - God, their ancestor owed the constant felicity of his life, down to his 79th year, in which this is written. What reverses may attend the remainder is in the hand of Providence; but, if they arrive, the reflection on past happiness enjoyed ought to help his bearing them with more resignation.
Página 24 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues; on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue, upon that day I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively.
Página 22 - I made a little book, in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues. I rul'd each page with red ink, so as to have seven columns, one for each day of the week, marking each column with a letter for the day.
Página 65 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores...
Página 21 - I judg'd it would be well not to distract my Attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be Master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone thro
Página 74 - Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. But one thing is most admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects : for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halves.
Página 19 - In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name.