 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
 | London St. Anne, Soho - 1873 - 248 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 pleasure... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 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 pleasure... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 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 pleasure... | |
 | 1874 - 832 pages
...ourselves; 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 accusation brought against our doctrine can only be made good, we see, by raising all human joys... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 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 pleasure... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1876 - 418 pages
...only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures There are so many things wrong and difficult in the world that no man can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he gives up thinking about pleasures... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 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... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 324 pages
...true poetic justice that men should not be punished for their sins by artificial devils ex machina. It would have been enough for George Eliot, as it...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 - 1880 - 328 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... | |
 | 1881 - 704 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." So ministering souls "wait on their ministry" because they are born for it — it is their life. Life... | |
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