Lillo, if you mean to act nobly and seek to know the best things God has put within reach of men, you must learn to fix your mini! on that end, and not on what will happen to you because of it. And remember, if you were to choose something lower, and... Romola - Page 430by George Eliot - 1909Full view - About this book
| George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...is good. There are so many things wrong and difficult in the world, that no man can be great — ho can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless...mean to act nobly and seek to know the best things God'has put within reach of men, you must learn to fix your mind on that end, and not on what will... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...to-morrow sacred: he had the greatness which belongs to a life spent in struggling against powerful wrongs, and in trying to raise men to the highest deeds they...mind on that end, and not on what will happen to you becanse of it. And remember, if you were to choose something lower and make it the rule of your life... | |
| George Willis Cooke - Novelists, English - 1883 - 454 pages
...painful. My father had the greatness that belongs to integrity ; he chose poverty and obscur. ty rathei than falsehood. And there was Fra Girolamo — you...your mind on that end, and not on what will happen to jrou, because of it. And remember, if you were to choose something lower, and make it the rule of your... | |
| Mathilde Blind - 1883 - 316 pages
...closes with these significant words, which Romola addresses to Lillo, Tito's child, but not her own : " And so, my Lillo, if you mean to act nobly, and seek...to know the best things God has put within reach of man, you must learn to fix your mind on that end, and not on what will happen to you because of it.... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...die with their base selves as their best companions.4 It Is only a poor sort of happiness, my Lillo, that could ever come by caring very much about our...put within reach of men, you must learn to fix your mini! on that end, and not on what will happen to you because of it. And remember, if you were to choose... | |
| Mathilde Blind - 1885 - 332 pages
...closes with these significant words, which Romola addresses to Lillo, Tito's child, but not her own : " And so, my Lillo, if you mean to act nobly, and seek...to know the best things God has put within reach of man, you must learn to fix your mind on that end, and not on what will happen to you because of it.... | |
| John Lord - History - 1885 - 536 pages
...thoughtful. She sometimes discourses like Epictetus: — " And so, my Lillo," says she at the conclusion, " if you mean to act nobly, and seek to know the best things God has put within reach of man, you must learu to fix your mind on that end, and not on what will happen to you because of it.... | |
| Diurnal - 1885 - 246 pages
...still plotting where, And when, and how, the business may be done. GEORGE HERBERT. Jia oble <1 imo. IF you mean to act nobly, and seek to know the best things that God has put within reach of men, you must learn to fix your mind on that end, and not on what... | |
| Annie H. Ryder - Calendars - 1886 - 200 pages
...gives up thinking much about pleasure or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful. And so, my Lillo, if you mean to act nobly and seek...and not on what will happen to you because of it. GEORGE ELIOT. 22. " Perfectly true, perfectly right," said I. " Every word good as gold. Truth before... | |
| First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Calif. Ladies - Quotations, English - 1891 - 96 pages
...—Emerson. When a man is in earnest and knows what he is about, his work is half done. —Mirabeau. If you mean to act nobly, and seek to know the best things which God hath put within the reach of men, you must fix your mind on that end, and not on what will... | |
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