We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thought, 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... Romola - Page 309by George Eliot - 1863 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1872 - 894 pages
...poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. \Ve can only have the highest happiness, such as goes...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... | |
| Theology - 1874 - 832 pages
...being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as for ourselves; and this sort of happiness often brings...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... | |
| Edward Dowden - English literature - 1878 - 542 pages
...had found them for the uses of life ; how patiently and persistently she had acquired their lesson. " It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...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... | |
| James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 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
...being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as for ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings...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... | |
| 1881 - 700 pages
...rest of the world as well as for ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much p:iin with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its...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... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1881 - 742 pages
...says : — " This sort of happiness brings so much pain with it that we can only tell it from mere pain by its being what we would choose before everything else, because our souls see it is good/' Do such words remind us of " Adam Bede " in its closing pages ? No, indeed. But they might serve as... | |
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