 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
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 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 his... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 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 s» There are so many things wrong and difficult in the world that no man can be great — he can hardly... | |
 | Oliver Frederick George Stanley (Rt. Hon.) - 1923 - 132 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.' It is the ideals of Goethe and George Eliot, a single ideal differently regarded, that many people... | |
 | James Ford - 1923 - 1052 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." — GEORGE ELIOT, Romola 2The recognition of this by many utilitarian hedonists has caused them to... | |
 | William Heard Kilpatrick - 1923 - 408 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." George Eliot, Romola (Garden City, Doubleday Page, 1901), p. 209. 131. OMAR KHAYYAM ON LIFE "Waste... | |
 | William Temple - 1924 - 314 pages
...good we may say what George Eliot's Romola says of the highest happiness, " We only know it from pain by its being what we would choose before everything else, because our souls see it is good." Pleasures of sense afford the minimum of satisfaction though they may occasion the maximum of excitement.... | |
 | Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - 1925 - 490 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 . . . unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure or rewards, and gets strength to endure... | |
 | Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane - 1927 - 344 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...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... | |
 | 1916 - 508 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." This should encourage us in our work when we sometimes wonder whether our young people would not be... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1882 - 584 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... | |
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