 To sit still and contemplate, - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what you are - is not this to know both...  The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 115by John Kelman - 1903 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - 832 pages
...remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to l>e everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what you are — is not thia to know both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell with happiness ? After all, it is not they who carry... | |
 | 1876 - 814 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet...private chamber, who have the fun of the procession. Ar1d once you are at that, you are in the very humor of all social heresy. It is no time for shuffling,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet...private chamber, who have the fun of the procession. And once you are at that, you are in the very humour of all social heresy. It is no time for shuffling,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet...private chamber, who have the fun of the procession. And once you are at that, you are in the very humor of all social heresy. It is no time for shuffling,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 pages
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 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet...private chamber, who have the fun of the procession. And once you are at that, you are in the very humour of all social heresy. It is no time for shuffling,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet...private chamber, who have the fun of the procession. And once you are at that, you are in the very humour of all social heresy. It is no time for shuffling,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet...both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell with happiness ? /~\F those who fail, I do not speak — despair ^—' should be sacred; but to those who even modestly... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet...both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell with happiness ? /"\F those who fail, I do not speak — despair ^""' should be sacred ; but to those who even modestly... | |
 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1899 - 312 pages
...contemplate,—to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what you are—is not this to know both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell with happiness ? After all, it is not... | |
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