 We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.  Critical Miscellanies - Page 208by John Morley - 1923 - 424 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1850 - 428 pages
...common business of life. " We shall nefer," said Scott, " learu to feel and respect our real callings and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider...moonshine compared with the education of the heart." Maria did not listen to this without some water in her eyes ; her tears are always ready when any generous... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 430 pages
...neighbours, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared With the education of the heart," Maria did not listen to this without... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 418 pages
...neighbours, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart." Maria did not listen to this without... | |
 | 1838 - 716 pages
...neighbors, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.' Maria did not listen to this without... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...neighbours, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have...moonshine, compared with the education of the heart." Maria did not listen to this without some water in her eyes — her tears are always ready when any... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...neighbours, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have...moonshine, compared with the education of the heart." Maria did not listen to this without some water in her eyes — her tears are always ready when any... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...passages in his diary. One of them* ends with this observation, ' ' We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine compared with the education of the heart." It is unfortunate that in the present... | |
 | 1893 - 844 pages
...neighbors, that I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have...moonshine compared with the education of the heart." So that when Scott deprecated so earnestly any high estimate of that which was uncommon, he certainly... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...books; and he declared that authors would never learn their true calling till they had taught themselves "to consider everything as moonshine compared with the education of the heart.'' Miss Edgeworth's comment was that, whereas Swift confessed to have written that "people might treat... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...neighbours, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have...moonshine, compared with the education of the heart." Maria did not listen to this without some water in her eyes — (her tears are always ready when any... | |
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