human
He began, we say, light-heartedly. He did not believe that
gpt
human
He who is only in good health, and is willing to work, has nothing to fear in the world.
gpt
What another man would call want, I call comfort.
human
Must not one often act thoughtlessly, if one would provoke Fortune to do something for him? In his first inexperience, the life of
gpt
(which we find oddly translated
human
) was the one he would choose for himself. Later in life, when he wished to marry, he was of another mind, and perhaps discovered that there was something in the old father's notion of a fixed position.
gpt
The life of the sparrow on the house-top is only right good if one need not expect any end to it. If it cannot always last, every day it lasts too long, --he writes to Ebert in 1770. Yet even then he takes the manly view.
human
Everything in the world has its time, everything may be overlived and overlooked, if one only have health. Nor let any one suppose that Lessing, full of courage as he was, found professional authorship a garden of Alcinoüs. From creative literature he continually sought refuge, and even repose, in the driest drudgery of mere scholarship. On the 26th of April, 1768, he writes to his brother with something of his old gayety:
gpt
Thank God, the time will soon come when I cannot call a penny in the world my own but I must first earn it. I am unhappy if it must be by writing. And again in May, 1771:
human
Among all the wretched, I think him the most wretched who must work with his head, even if he is not conscious of having one. But what is the good of complaining? Lessing's life, if it is a noble example, so far as it concerned himself alone, is also a warning when another is to be asked to share it. He too would have profited had he earlier learned and more constantly borne in mind the profound wisdom of that old saying, _Si sit prudentia_. Let the young poet, however he may believe of his art that