...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with this hard,...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failurejs to form ' habits : for, after all, habit is relative...

...vital forces unite in their purest 1 Shakespeare. * Waller. energy ? To burn always with this liard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relation to a stereotyped world; . . . while all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite...

...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? "To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is suc1 Waller. cess in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world...

...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with this hard...success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relation to a stereotyped world : . . . while all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite...

...the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest 1 Shakespeare. * Waller. energy ? To burn always with this hard gem-like flame,...success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relation to a stereotyped world ; . . . while all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite...

...Mr. Pater's later utterances. " Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end." " To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." " Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us ... is, in this short...

...wills, in all things should we do 't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept. CORIOliANUS ii. 3. O burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits : for, after all, habit is relative...

...with that danger of misapplication. Who can ever forget the closing passage in ' The Renaissance ' : ' To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life ' ? But again : ' Only be sure it is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened,...

...variegated dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. And again : " While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution...

...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? To bum always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. And again : " While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution...