The Pleasures of Life by Sir John Lubbock
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games. Does it then seem to you so small and worthless a thing to be good
and happy?" In Bernard of Morlaix's beautiful lines-- "Pax erit illa fidelibus, illa beata, Irrevocabilis, Invariabilis, Intemerata. Pax sine crimine, pax sine turbine, pax sine rixa, Meta Laboribus, inque tumultibus anchora fixa; Pax erit omnibus unica. Sed quibus? Immaculatis Pectore mitibus, ordine stantibus, ore sacratis." What greater reward can we have than this; than the "peace which passeth all understanding," "which cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof." [9] [1] Colton, _Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words_. [2] _i.e._ spirit. [3] Omar Khayyam. [4] Two robbers destroyed by Theseus. [5] Epictetus. [6] Emerson. [7] Epictetus. |
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