The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

by Charles William Eliot

92. Why is Man less durable than the Works of his Hands, but because This is not the Place of his Rest? 93. And it is a Great and Just Reproach upon him, that he should fix his Mind where he cannot stay himself. 94. Were it not more his Wisdom to be concerned about those Works that will go with him, and erect a Mansion for him where Time has Power neither over him nor it? 95. ’T is a sad Thing for Man so often to miss his Way to his Best, as well as most Lasting Home. Of Ambition Table of Contents 96. They that soar too high, often fall hard; which makes a low and level Dwelling preferrable. 97. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. 98. They are most seen and observed, and most envyed: Least Quiet, but most talk’d of, and not often to their Advantage 99. Those Buildings had need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to Weather. 100. Good Works are a Rock, that will support their Credit; but Ill Ones a Sandy Foundation that Yields to Calamities. 101. And truly they ought to expect no Pity in their Fall, that when in Power had no Bowels for the Unhappy. 102. The worst of Distempers;