 How shall we pass most swiftly from 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 success in life.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 6041873Full view - About this book
 | 1906 - 734 pages
...always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy." He adds: "To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . . While all melts beneath our feet we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution... | |
 | Abel Chevalley - 1925 - 284 pages
...prophet of the epoch, was proposing as an ideal for youth 1 the exclusive cult of internal beauty: "To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." One can judge what pleasure the colonials took in the emasculated art of the ecstasy-merchants ! The... | |
 | Warner Fite - 1925 - 342 pages
...only of giving "the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake"; "to burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy" of the concentrated moment; in the presence of which "we shall hardly have time to make theories [ie,... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1926 - 618 pages
...present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy 1 To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. . . Our one chance... | |
 | Warner Fite - 1926 - 296 pages
...of giving "the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake" ; "to burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy" of the concentrated moment ; in the presence of which "we shall hardly have time to make theories (ie,... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 pages
...human desire, were extolled as central in the new creed. Pater has assured us that success in life is "to burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy," a counsel of intensity rather . than of breadth or depth. "Failure is to form habits," he says ; 371... | |
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - 1927 - 336 pages
...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 failure is to form habits; for, after all, habit is relative... | |
 | Mason Long - 1928 - 344 pages
...and that boys after reading them would prefer rascals to honest men. — GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS 26. To 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 : . . . — WALTER PATER 27. These... | |
 | Robert Metcalf Smith - 1928 - 596 pages
...memory of the love and beauty that have been. As Walter Pater, voicing a similar doctrine, phrased it, "To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." The outcome of this philosophy of life in terms of art, love, and beauty is witnessed both in the career... | |
 | 1922 - 590 pages
...experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated dramatic life. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." Alas, how few lives out of the cloud-covered multitude of existences have burned always with this flame!... | |
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