 | Lorin Gurney Sampson Farr - 1904 - 218 pages
...nourished in the bosom of the secure and well-ordered household. THE LOGOS OF DR. JOHNSON ON HOME. — To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and to which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is indeed at home that every man... | |
 | John Morrow - 1906 - 360 pages
...Thomas Wilson. Io. At the workingman's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter. — Franklin. n. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. — Johnson. 12. These wintry nights, against my window pane. Nature, with busy pencil, draws designs... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1907 - 668 pages
...is in home-life that Johnson places the true centre of happiness. "To be happy at home," he says, " is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to...and of which every desire prompts the prosecution." Johnson was an expert in that very difficult part of life, the management of one's own mind. He knew,... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1908 - 524 pages
...Flowers, music and songbooks, plenty of pure simple religion makes this home a place of purity and peace. To be happy at home, is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labor tends. It is indeed, at home where every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate,... | |
 | Robert Shackleton, Elizabeth Shackleton - 1910 - 414 pages
...with that phraseological formality which was never sufficient to conceal the wisdom of his thought; "to be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labor tend, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution;" and to be happy at home ought to be... | |
 | 1910 - 608 pages
...much practice. (3) To believe in the heroic makes heroes. (4) To endure is greater than to dare. (5) To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. (6) To work hard tires one. (7) To labor is the natural lot of man. (8) To err is human. (9) To forgive... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - 1911 - 232 pages
...of general nature ' ; ' of men as of everything else we must judge according to our knowledge ' ; ' to be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition ' ; ' the sun has risen and the corn has grown, and whatever talk has been of the danger of property, yet he... | |
 | Janet McKenzie Hill - 1914 - 872 pages
...and at door Knocks the wild winter storm. Essentials of Happy Homemaking By Eleanor Robbins Wilson To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all...and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. — JOHNSON. WHO ever saw a newly-married pair and did not feel that they had securely corralled Cupid... | |
 | 1914 - 128 pages
...find a resting place When, bearing blessings, they descend to earth. Rare Ben Jonson said that — To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labor tend, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Such happiness my friend enjoyed. His... | |
 | Elizabeth Crocker Jenkins - 1915 - 186 pages
...the art of entertaining their families. Just now there is an archaic flavor to Dr. Johnson's words; "To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition - the end to which every enterprise and labor tend." Here the well-to-do and educated classes must lead the way. A love of simple, wholesome... | |
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. 
