Some Pages of My Life (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Some Pages of My Life Retrospect, saith the cynic in man, is only another word for regret, but, as I sit here and look back upon seventy years of life, I do not find it so. I do not mean that no regrets mingle with my retrospect. A man can have learned but little from life if at threescore years and ten he does not know something of his infirmities and his mistakes and of faults which call for more than regret, but, as I recall the past, something greater than regret mingles with my retrospect. Regrets there are, but they are like clouds upon a sky which is full of blue, if blue be the colour of hope. I do not feel like one who, after a day of storm and rain, is glad to creep indoors and crouch hopelessly over the fast-dying embers on the hearth, rather do I feel like one who, having experienced a day of quick-changing weather, with beating storm and drenching rain, hot sun and chilling fog, sits down at evening in a quiet garden beneath skies in which the light still lingers, and, while he watches the swift and silent river which pours its waters into the infinite sea, realises that, in spite of shower, cloud, and tempest, the day which is ending has been one in which there has been sunshine, and from which Gods sunlight has never been withdrawn. Sorrow? Yes, of course, there has been sorrow, but 1 shall not paint life's picture black because of sorrow. Gladness? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.