 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
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 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...wrong and difficult in the world that no man can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — uhless he gives up thinking much about pleasure... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1899 - 348 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...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... | |
 | James Oliphant (M.A.) - 1899 - 270 pages
...much pain with it that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before anything else, because our souls see it is good. There are...man can be great—he can hardly keep himself from wickedness— unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure or rewards, and gets strength to endure... | |
 | James Oliphant - 1899 - 274 pages
...much pain with it that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before anything 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 pleasure... | |
 | Julia M. Dewey - 1899 - 316 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. And so, my Lillo, if you mean to act nobly, and seek to know the best things God has put within the... | |
 | 1899 - 136 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 its good." " If you mean to act nobly and seek to know the best things God has put within reach of... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1902 - 716 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 that it is good." But such discourse connects itself far better with Stoicism than with any form of... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1902 - 708 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 that it is good." But such discourse connects itself far better with Stoicism than with any form of... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1902 - 708 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 sec that it is good." But such discourse connects itself far better with Stoicism than with any form... | |
 | Roy Sherman Stowell - 1903 - 72 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."* Although I appreciated the fact that the real purpose of the book was good, yet I regarded it thoroughly... | |
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