<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519316" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Character of a Happy Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How happy is he born or taught,<br>That serveth not another's will;<br>Whose armour is his honest thought,<br>And simple truth his highest skill;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whose passions not his masters are;<br>Whose soul is still prepar'd for death<br>Untied unto the world with care<br>Of princes' grace or vulgar breath;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who envies none whom chance doth raise,<br>Or vice; who never understood<br>The deepest wounds are given by praise,<br>By rule of state, but not of good;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who hath his life from rumours freed;<br>Whose conscience is his strong retreat;<br>Whose state can neither flatterers feed,<br>Nor ruins make accusers great;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who God doth late and early pray,<br>More of his grace than goods to send,<br>And entertains the harmless day<br>With a well-chosen book or friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This man is free from servile bands<br>Of hope to rise or fear to fall;<br>Lord of himself, though not of lands;<br>And having nothing, yet hath all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wotton">Henry Wotton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519316" data-title="The Character of a Happy Life de Henry Wotton" data-description="How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his highest skill; Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepar'd for death Untied unto the world with care Of..."></div> </div> </div>

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