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Every drug that had been reserved from the laboratory of the late Court apothecary was brought, mixed with the elixir and fused; and he tried each new mixture on himself, for Frau Schimmel was not to be persuaded to smell any more elixirs.
Has any one yet found the right answer to the old question: 'What is Truth? Can you be sure that the noble and mighty Goddess corresponds to your puny and individual conception of her?" This very idea had disturbed me during my ride over the Alps, and I exclaimed: "Therein lies the dangerous power of the elixir!
"But I don't want to live for ever," objected Wang Chih; "I wish to go back and live in the days when my wife and children were here." "Ah, well! For that you must mix the elixir of life with some water out of the Sky-Dragon's mouth." "And where is the Sky-Dragon to be found?" inquired Wang Chih. "In the sky, of course. You really ask very stupid questions. He lives in a cloud-cave.
The first has led many to imagine that they might find means to avoid death, or, failing in this, that they might, nevertheless, so prolong existence as to reckon it by centuries instead of units. From this sprang the search, so long continued and still pursued, for the elixir vitae, or water of life, which has led thousands to pretend to it and millions to believe in it.
As Frau Schimmel felt that she stood in the place of a mother to her darling, she demanded respectfully what the doctor meant to do to the child. He answered in some embarrassment, and without looking at the old lady; "It is because I have need of a larger quantity of the elixir.
If the old wives came to the parsonage with eggs, or other little presents, they should always be well entertained, and encouraged to come again. All sick people should be regaled with Louise's elixir, and all misdoers should be more or less reproved by her. She would encourage all, to the very best of her power, to read, to be industrious, to go to church, and to plant trees.
She turned to me and examined me with calm criticism. "What a pity you didn't discover the elixir when you were younger, Richard. Your hair is grey at the temples." A clear laugh suddenly came from her. "What a lot of jealously there will be, Alexis. The old ones will be so envious of the young.
And runs as follows: Several centuries have passed since the time of the ancestor to whom we owe the wonderful history of the elixir as written in this book, and preserved from generation to generation in our family. Many Ueberhells have closed their eyes forever, since then, and even the graves of Dr.
Knowing then that my friend had been more than once an author indeed, he tells us so himself and perceiving, from innumerable symptoms, that he meditated putting also this before the world, I thought kindly to anticipate his wishes by proposing its publication: but I was rather curtly answered with a "Did I suppose these gnats were intended to be shrined in amber? these mere minnows to be treated with the high consideration due only to potted char and white bait? these fleeting thoughts fixed in stone before that Gorgon-head, the public? these ephemeral fancies dropped into the true elixir of immortality, printer's-ink? these " I stopped him, for this other mighty mouthful of images betrayed the hypocrite "Yes, I did."
Ah! so it is. Life has such hard conditions, that every dear and precious gift, every rare virtue, every pleasant facility, every genial endowment, love, hope, joy, wit, sprightliness, benevolence, must sometimes be cast into the crucible to distil the one elixir, patience.
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