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...experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given us of a variegated dramatic life. To burn always with this hard, gemlike 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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...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. . . . While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution...

...point to point, and be_£resent 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 succesg_inlife. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits : for, after all,...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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,...