It is the time ( and what a time) to be reminded how happiness can be found, realised, obtained…and thus make us fulfilled!

Let me share Sir Henry Wottons(1568-1639)
“The Character of a Happy Life.”

“How happy is he born and taught
That serveth not another’s will;
Whose armour is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!

Whose passions not his masters are;
Whose soul is still prepared for death,
United unto the world by care
Of public fame or private breath;

Whose envies none that chance doth raise,
Nor vice; who never understood
How deepest wounds are given by prise;
Nor rules of state, but rules of good;

Who hath his life from rumours freed;
Whose conscience is his strong retreat;
Whose state can neither flatteres feed,
Nor ruin make oppressors great;

Who God doth late and early pray
More of His Grace than gifts to lend;
And entertains the harmless day
With a religious book or friend;

This man is freed from servile bands
Of hope to rise or fear to fall:
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
And having nothing, yet hath all!”

Have a happy, patriotic day!

November 5, 2024

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