 | Robert Southey - Authors, English - 1850 - 388 pages
...desk ! Here it happens to be of no moment ; but you tell me the habit has produced and is pro^ ducing worse consequences. I would give you advice if it...If a man of education who has health, .eyes, hands, and1 leisure, wants , an object, it is only because God Almighty has bestowed all those blessings upon... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...set phrases, the steady contentment of thirty, which we find expressed in terms like these : — ' A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with...be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.' — Vol. ii. p. 279. Again — ' Oh Tom, that you were here ! for in truth... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...themselves wholly, that is, the ministry of the word and prayer. — Life of Chalmers, vol. ii, p. 21. A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with...be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it. — Southei/s Life. Popery has no scruples; it will carry on a guerilla warfare... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1876 - 448 pages
...reproved than in the words of Robert Southey, who thus wrote to a friend who sought his counsel : " I would give you advice if it could be of use; but...health, eyes, hands, and leisure, wants an object, it is CHAP. xi. Our popular literature. only because God Almighty has bestowed all those blessings upon a... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1880 - 416 pages
...Ь Is. ix. SO, ±Ux. 26. v. 4. Dr. T. Wise, 164. v. 6. Dr. J. Langhorne, i. 185. с Dr. D. Thomas. " A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it ; bat be sure no man was ever dis с о пj tented with the, world who did his duty in it." — Sovthey.... | |
 | 1887 - 784 pages
...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. A GOOD man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure that no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it. THE TWO POLLYS! UNDER TWO... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...what's in it That gives and take«, and chops and changes ev'ry minute. Quartet. CONTENTEDNKSS WITH THE. A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with...be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty In it. Southey. NOT то BE DESPISED. They take very unprofitable pains who endeavor... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...of a garden, the digging of a fish-pond, — even the raising of a cucumber or a tulip. — Paley. A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it ; bat be sure no man was ever discontented with the world if he did his duty in it. If a man of education,... | |
 | John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1894 - 336 pages
...the spectators ? Many people distress and torment themselves about the mystery of existence. Yet " a good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieve for it ; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it." 1... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - Quotations, English - 1896 - 382 pages
...ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or wounded heart. — LADY BLESSINGTON. A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with...be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it. — SOUTHEY. Thou must content thyself to see the world so imperfect as it... | |
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A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it ; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world if he did his duty in it. 
