An Attic Philosopher in Paris, Or a Peep At the World From a Garret: Being ...
An Attic Philosopher in Paris, Or a Peep At the World From a Garret: Being ...
Souvestre, Emile, 1806-1854
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The merchant said, when he saw your maimed body, ' See the worth of glory ! ' " " Do not believe him, my son : the true glory is the bread of the soul ; it is this which nourishes self-sacrifice, patience, and courage. The Master of all has bestowed it as a tie the more between men. When we desire to be distinguished by our breth- ren, do we not thus prove our esteem and our sympathy for them ? The longing for admiration is but one side of love. No, no ; the true glory can never be too dearly p...aid for ! That which we should deplore, child, is not the infirmities which prove a generous self-sacrifice, but those which our vices or our imprudence have called forth. Ah ! if I could speak aloud to those who, when passing, cast looks of pity upon me, I should say to the young man whose excesses have dimmed his sight before he is old, ' What have you done with your eyes ? ' To the slothful man, who with difficulty drags along his enervated mass of flesh, * What have you done with your feet ?
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