May you live every day of your life.
May you live every day of your life.
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while And then act our part in it.
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
May you live all the days of your life.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories