 To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray — these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these, and they never will...  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 494by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1904 - 390 pages
...effortless self-surrender of the soul to those divine ideals which constitute the Eternal Purpose? "To watch the corn grow and the blossoms set. to draw hard breath over plow-share and spade, to read, to think, to hope, to love, to pray, these are the tliings thut make... | |
 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1905 - 526 pages
...wise men have always known, that "to watch the corn grow and the blossoms set ; to draw deep breaths over ploughshare or spade ; to read, to think, to...pray — these are the things that make men happy." OPENED BY WARREN W. RAWSON, ARLINGTON, MASS. Saturday, March 18, 1905. In place of the usual Saturday... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 464 pages
...indeed provides without stint the main requisites of human happiness. " To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set ; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade ; to read, to think, to love, to pray," — these, says Ruskin, " are the things that make men happy." " I have fallen into the hands... | |
 | Natural history - 1906 - 338 pages
...brings, affords a mental training to all who take part in it. As Ruskin says: "To watch the corn grow or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray — these are the things that make men happy." NOTES ON ANIMAL BEHAVIOR BY ARTHUR W. WEYSSE Professor... | |
 | B. L. - 1908 - 144 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now ; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to...will have power to do more. The world's prosperity depends upon our knowing and teaching these few things ; but upon iron, or glass, or electricity, or... | |
 | Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler - 1910 - 390 pages
...trained to take a fence. All I ask of life is that I may carry out the programme of my beloved Ruskin : ' To watch the corn grow and the blossoms set ; to draw hard breath over ploughshare and spade ; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray : these are the things that make men happy... | |
 | Ritter Brown - Social problems - 1911 - 334 pages
...hard breath over plowshare and spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray; these are the things to make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these — they never will have the power to do more." Mechanical progress is not ethical progress. All branches of science, art, and... | |
 | Ritter Brown - Social problems - 1911 - 328 pages
...since first he was made of the earth as they are now: and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. " To watch the corn grow and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare and spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray; these are the things to make men happy; they... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Conduct of life - 1913 - 446 pages
...utility and of beauty, which a whole lifetime of study could never exhaust. "To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, these," says Ruskin, "are the things that make men happy." We should more fully appreciate our... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now ; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw...happy; they have always had the power of doing these, and they never will have power to do more. The world's prosperity or adversity depends upon our knowing... | |
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