 We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only...  Critical Miscellanies - Page 252by John Morley - 1878 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1863 - 658 pages
...; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before everything...wrong and difficult in the world , that no man can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...pain with it that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before every thing else, because our souls see it is good. There are...wrong and difficult in the world that no man can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 376 pages
...of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its being that we would choose before everything else, because our...good. There are so many things wrong and difficult in this world, that no man can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he gives... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its being that we would choose before everything else, because our...good. There are so many things wrong and difficult in this world, that no man can be great ; he can hardly keep himself from wickedness, unless he gives... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...great many other points, George Eliot perceives that the only course for honest and worthy folk iu the tangle which fools, with or without circumbendibuses,...wrong and difficult in the world, that no man can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures... | |
 | 1866 - 802 pages
...and the " Everlasting Yea" when Romola declares to Lillo, " We can only have the highest happi" ness, such as goes along with being a " great man, by having...and " difficult in the world, that no man can " be great — he can hardly keep himself " from wickedness — unless he gives up " thinking much about... | |
 | 1866 - 506 pages
...often brings so " much pain with it, that we can only " tell it from misery by its being what " wo would choose before everything " else, because our souls see it is good. " Hiere are so many things wrong and " difficult in the world, that no man can " be great—he can... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its lieing what we would choose before everything else, because...wrong and difficult in the world, that no man can be great — ho can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure... | |
 | 1872 - 894 pages
...; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before everything else, because our souls see it is good.'' The same doctrine of the necessity of self-renunciation, of the obligation laid upon men to accept... | |
 | 1873 - 778 pages
...; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before everything...wrong and difficult in the world that no man can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness— unless he gives ap thinking much about pleasure... | |
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