...bis zeal: Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall, Lord of himself,...

...may appropriately conclude with the lines of Sir Henry Wotton on the character of a happy life : ' How happy Is he born and taught, That serveth not...armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto...

...on the Life of Freedom, and say with brave Sir Henry Wotton— " How happy is he bom and taught, Who serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest...thought, And simple truth his only skill! This man is saved from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall,— Lord of himself, though not of lands,...

...some short poems, which are distinguished by a dignity of thought and expressiou rarely excelled. 1. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! 2. Whose passions not his masters are,...

...itself. Francois de La Rochefoucauld « Be true to your own highest convictions. William E. Channing K How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Sir Henry Wotton 3. James Lane Allen...

...For the cottager with ample common rights, there was profound truth in Sir Henry Wotton's dictum : How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will. C. ENCLOSURE AND ENCROACHMENT Such an economy was peculiarly vulnerable, however, to the new economic...

...(1. 62—64) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; PoRA SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568-1639) The Character of a Happy Life 1 he wind was still, Shaken out dead from tree and hill:...at the wind's will,— 1 sat now, for the wind was utmost skill! (1. 1-4) Wotton POETRY QUOTATIONS 2 Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having...

...practice self-control. I had read the world's best literature, and my mind was stored with consolations. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...armour is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill. More radio dates in Los Angeles, and a series of final meetings. We had taken the Philharmonic...

...set out to inscribe an ideal. (Henry Wotton's lyric "On the Character of a Happy Life" comes to mind: "How happy is he born and taught / That serveth not another's will.") 83 Then again, Keble seems to have drawn on the sense of liturgical antiphony in such psalms as the...

...honorably in the matter. The Character of a Happy Life HENRY WOTTEN Honesty is armor for the soul. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Whose passions not his masters are,...