Source: Times Go by Turns, Line 11; p. 47.
“My lovely living boy,
My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: "My fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world", William Shakespeare, King John, act iii. sc. 4.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817[citation needed]
“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Love (1947), p. 274
John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) (1642–1710) English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England
The Queen v. Tutchin (1704), 1 Salk. 51 pl. 14.
“Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”
Robert Herrick book Hesperides
"Seek and Find". Compare: "Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet" (transalted as "Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking"), Terence, Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8.
Hesperides (1648)
William Whewell (1794–1866) English philosopher & historian of science
Elementary Treatise on Mechanics, The Equilibrium of Forces on a Point (1819).
